Example sentences of "[pers pn] begin [to-vb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
2 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
3 | They begin to appear in the first quarter of the eighteenth century , a remnant of the funerary effigy , though it is not recorded that nobles , apart from those of royal blood , ever had them ( Cromwell and General Monck excepted ) . |
4 | Nicholson was in awe of Minnelli ; this was , after all , his first experience of a mainstream director of Minnelli 's vintage , and he began to worry after the first day when it was suggested he might get his hair cut . |
5 | As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning . |
6 | The possibility of a long poem clearly inspired him and , almost as soon as he had settled himself with the Mirrlees , he began to work upon the next poem in the sequence . |
7 | He began to run after the first taxi , but it was soon out of sight . |