Example sentences of "[noun sg] begin [to-vb] [coord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Hazel still went up , the south wind began to blow and the June sunset reddened the sky to the zenith . |
| 2 | It drifted and swirled about him , making him peaceful and tired , until his sense of loss began to go and the night was no longer awesome , for he had the protection of a Callanish eagle near him , and that gave him peace to rest and sleep at last … |
| 3 | When the sun began to sink and the evening grew cold , they stripped their clothes from the thorn trees , collected together their pans and bamboo brooms and set out across the bridge for home . |
| 4 | Warm rain began to fall and the land came to life . |
| 5 | As the Oaks moved again , the wounds yawned and slowly , slowly , inch by terrible inch , they gaped wider and skin began to tear and the muscle and bone began to part with a sound that made Floy and Snodgrass both feel sick . |
| 6 | When the pot begins to boil and the bubbles rise quickly to the surface , it does n't take much to make it boil right over . |
| 7 | Soon the traffic began to thin and the road became a long straight fenland route with occasional trees and sporadic bungalows slipping into the dykes . |
| 8 | The slope down to Rock Creek began to steepen and the shops thinned out as they moved away from the centre . |
| 9 | The crowd began to disperse but the dancing continued — do you call that dancing Neil ? |
| 10 | At a certain point in the ceremony the rhythm of the weeping began to change and the tears were replaced by laughter and sometimes a kind of ecstatic , even erotic frenzy . |
| 11 | The face begins to swell and the eyes to protrude with the cough and then comes oedema between the eyelids and the eyebrows , even to the extent of a little water bag forming . |