Example sentences of "had just begun [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surface had just begun to shimmer in the light when Mrs Rosalia Alderley came out through the French windows of the ballroom and stopped , staring in thunderstruck amazement . |
| 2 | And Lucy walked out of his office , and out of the hotel , and into the night where a soft winter rain had just begun to fall . |
| 3 | Charlotte had just begun to take stock of what needed to be removed from Jackdaw Cottage when Mrs Mentiply arrived , intent on discharging her housekeeping duties to the bitter end . |
| 4 | Siegfried had just begun to take the stairs three at a time when his brother descended from the landing , knotting his tie with perfect composure . |
| 5 | She had just begun to veil . |
| 6 | She had just begun to settle into her neat flat , and although it was n't furnished expensively the few pieces she had were chosen with loving care . |
| 7 | There they had just begun to feel safe again , when they had scented more of the hated man-things lurking among the trees . |
| 8 | As she dragged Susan 's limp form away from the fire , she noticed with one part of her brain that a sheet of paper had just begun to burn . |
| 9 | Police were given a 15-minute warning by telephone and had just begun to clear the area . |
| 10 | She had just begun to tear it open when there was a loud , heavy knock at the front door . |
| 11 | " The Four Points were the most celebrated diplomatic achievement of the Crimean war " , but did not seem so at the time they were agreed because Nicholas had just begun withdrawing his forces from the Danubian Principalities . |
| 12 | It had penetrated through the layered chalks on which Troodos sits and had just begun to bring up rock cores from the ophiolite 's fringe . |
| 13 | The class had just begun to read the play which I had chosen when at 11am the radio relay came to life with an announcer saying : This is London ’ , followed by the announcement that the King had died in the early hours of the morning and proclaiming the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the throne , ’ recalls Mr Dowling of Staindrop Drive , Middlesbrough . |
| 14 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
| 15 | Some of its humour happened to remind him of his friend Mike Nichols , who had just begun making a career directing plays on Broadway with the hit Neil Simon comedy Barefoot in the Park and Murray Schisgal 's Luv . |
| 16 | She tried to keep her tone light , matter-of-fact , but her mother swung round from the sink where she had just begun to prepare vegetables for lunch , and her father lowered his paper and peered over his glasses at her . |
| 17 | The sky above the glittering slate roofs was as blue as the curious lilies which had just begun to come out under the dining-room window , trumpet flowers set like the seed-head of a dandelion but as blue as — the sky . |
| 18 | The baby had just begun sleeping all through the night so had joined his siblings . |
| 19 | She had just begun to worry about the honeymoon , finding an image of Hywel in Benidorm particularly elusive , when she was summoned by the doctor . |
| 20 | Why did this man he had just begun to believe had no interest in him have to have chosen that book among the dozens of others ? |
| 21 | General Zulfikar had just begun saying , ‘ If you permit , sir , I shall map out tonight 's procedures , ’ when his son wet his pants . |
| 22 | Johnny had just begun to bite her ear . |