Example sentences of "begin to take [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if Mains ' lean face did begin to take on a grey and grim hue it probably began in 1972 when the All Black selectors began shuffling around their fullbacks , with Mains conspicuously absent . |
| 2 | When they stand at the watchnight service and hear those self-same carols they will galvanise into action and begin to take up the offering among the congregation and go off to ring it up on the cash register . |
| 3 | Injury doubt , Mark Hateley will also play , as Rangers begin to take on a menacing look again . |
| 4 | The oppressed begin to take on the view of the oppressor and in our example above , would begin to feel that their depression is a personal failure . |
| 5 | As an appetiser to the spectacle approaching , the rocks begin to take on an unusually geometric shape , until on turning the jagged headland of Part na Spanaigh , the astonishing site of 40,000 mostly hexagonal stone columns comes into view . |
| 6 | As with Diana 's romance , events began to take on a momentum of their own . |
| 7 | ‘ Solitude enflamed the imagination of Henri K — , and gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind . |
| 8 | After the line , ‘ gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind ’ , he made the following annotation : ‘ Change the animal : make it a dog instead of a parrot . |
| 9 | Although a late developer , it began to take on the size and conformation of an excellent Clydesdale stallion . |
| 10 | Gadebridge probably began life as a small farm , but from Period 4 , during the third century , it began to take on the additional characteristics , even to the extent of a gatehouse , or porter 's lodge . |
| 11 | As August progressed , Arafat began to take on the role of Saddam 's chief ally . |
| 12 | This ruling appeared to have been accepted , however reluctantly , by Sassou-Nguesso , and during April the conference began to take on the character of a national assembly . |
| 13 | As the creatures soared up and down , their laughter began to take on an eerie and mournful tone . |
| 14 | Invalided out of the army in 1915 , Colman began to take up the acting career which had fascinated him since amateur dramatics in childhood . |
| 15 | Then , collecting her thoughts , shutting out all sound save that in her headset , she began to take down the message . |
| 16 | When he had rolled a bundle together he began to take down the tent , grabbing at the guy ropes . |
| 17 | She began to take out the postcards , revealing the snapshots underneath . |
| 18 | He picked up the envelope and began to take out the sheet of paper inside . |
| 19 | Without waiting for an answer , she walked round to the boot and began to take out the luggage . |
| 20 | And then , just as the foyer was beginning to take on a shabby , comfortable look , the lift arrived , an elegant black and gilt box with a sliding door . |
| 21 | So by the time you 've played around with type sizes , switched fonts and merged text with graphics the whole document is beginning to take on a whole new look . |
| 22 | The foot of the League is beginning to take on a familiar appearance as far as Athletico is concerned : |
| 23 | Life was beginning to take on a familiar shape again . |
| 24 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 25 | It was beginning to take on the aspect of a full-scale expedition , and both women were looking forward to it immensely . |
| 26 | The ‘ Mouvement du 22 Mars ’ had begun to take on a momentum of its own , as April turned into May . |
| 27 | For Joshua , at sixty-two , and suffering from a bad leg , distances had begun to take on an extraordinary significance . |
| 28 | Back in Vienna , Constanze , for once not pregnant , had begun to take over the financial reins with great aplomb . |
| 29 | A quarter of an hour later , he begins to take up the strings of eggs , twining them around his hind legs . |