Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] begin [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably in all innocence they began to use the word Baal to describe the Lord God . |
| 2 | The European Court of Justice has , however , built up some case law which begins to narrow the definition of what is meant by ‘ in the public service ’ . |
| 3 | And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there . |
| 4 | After a while she began to get the message , but it required a lot of patience . |
| 5 | The next day they began to build the nest in the apple tree . |
| 6 | Thus was introduced the time when the Created God ceased to be produced solely from all that was good in the struggle for existence , and entered the period , still going on , when mankind itself began to influence the nature of that God . |
| 7 | Above the slab we began to penetrate the gorge . |
| 8 | About three kilometres before he reached Fontanellato each morning he began to sound the whistle on the engine to warn us that he would soon be arriving . |
| 9 | At church we began to rehearse the Christmas music , and get ready to cheer the people , if we could . |
| 10 | By the time Charlie 's eyes had become accustomed to the darkness he began to study the moon and , more importantly , the movement of the clouds . |
| 11 | By the time everyone began to arrive the church looked wonderful . |
| 12 | For the first time I began to recognize the power of the forces that Laura was summoning to her need . |
| 13 | This indignant representative of the impoverished upper classes sought explanations in terms of patriotism , the indifference of the working class and the upward and downward extension of the middle class which began to smudge the divide between traditional class divisions . |
| 14 | Two days before the President 's visit they began to dress the mast like a Christmas tree . |
| 15 | Every time he began to move the driver jerked the car a little further towards him . |