Example sentences of "[was/were] begin [to-vb] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story .
2 The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows .
3 That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit .
4 Ken meanwhile was beginning to look down on a great deal of what he had been asked to do professionally .
5 Traffic was beginning to build up on the main road which bypassed Axe , and the sound of one particular car engine could be heard , becoming steadily louder as it approached her part of the lane .
6 The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade .
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