Example sentences of "[was/were] begin [to-vb] down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colleges were back at the end of September , holidays had ended , the metropolis was beginning to settle down for the winter . |
| 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 | Ken meanwhile was beginning to look down on a great deal of what he had been asked to do professionally . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The rigid structure of Tokugawa society was beginning to break down by the early nineteenth century . |