Example sentences of "it began [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | So once the Trust acquired the house it began to do a number of it began to do three things . |
| 2 | It began to seem a possibility that an external observer would be able to predict whether or not an apparently relaxed subject was forming visual images . |
| 3 | ‘ It began to seem a craven sort of job . |
| 4 | As its influence expanded , it began to promote a model of evolution that took far greater account of geographical factors . |
| 5 | When in 1795 it began holding a series of open-air demonstrations in London , surprising numbers seem to have attended — possibly more than 100,000 , given the tendency for such occasions to become " fairs " with women and children attending as well as men . |
| 6 | Five miles from Cotherstone it began to blow a blizzard . |
| 7 | At this stage it began to make a noise , or , rather , Twoflower started to hear the noise it had been making all along . |
| 8 | And then it began to get a bit darker . |
| 9 | This term always had this broader sense until , in the mid-nineteenth century , it began to have a capital M and a personified sense restricted to the episcopate , or more often just the papacy , as holders of teaching authority ( see Congar , 1976 ; Hill , 1988 , pp. 75–88 ) . |
| 10 | The missing element , however , was input from the clients themselves , so it began to develop a client care programme . |
| 11 | By now Radical in name only , the party found its ambitions satisfied by the mere arrival of a Republic ; forthwith it began to offer a refuge to former monarchists and adopt increasingly conservative positions on social issues . |
| 12 | Consequently , it began to offer a ‘ top-down ’ interpretation of processes and problems in society . |