Example sentences of "[noun pl] begin [to-vb] [coord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she trudged awkwardly up the valley road her feet began to sweat and the toes rubbed painfully against each other . |
| 2 | However , as the project came to a close the total budget provided in the grant for support workers began to dwindle and the development officers were instructed to make careful calculations of their expenditure in order not to exceed the total available . |
| 3 | Then the fingers began to move and the piano got louder and stopped with a final note as the hand fell on to the floor . |
| 4 | I felt my eyelids begin to droop and the warmth of the room slowly turning into a soft buzz in my head , the sort of sound which so often precedes the sudden slip into sleep itself . |
| 5 | Managers came and went at an alarming rate ; there was Board Room take-over ; gates began to dwindle and the Palace were candidates for relegation from well before Christmas . |
| 6 | By 1919 the number of soldiers began to decrease and the numbers of unemployed to increase . |
| 7 | If these are damaged , the cells begin to separate and the surface of the hair becomes rough , dull and prone to tangles . |