Example sentences of "had begun [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commission had begun to draw up an inventory of assets . |
| 2 | The rising tide had begun to fill up the channel . |
| 3 | During our meal the restaurant had begun to fill up with the pre-theatre crowd , Brighton burghers and their wives . |
| 4 | When the garrison had begun to give up hope that he would act , he at last did something . |
| 5 | Economic activity , which had begun to lessen in early 1990 , contracted by 3 per cent in the final quarter of the year . |
| 6 | Evening had begun to settle down , and he was walking along a narrow path of dry grass , towards the buildings . |
| 7 | The ‘ Mouvement du 22 Mars ’ had begun to take on a momentum of its own , as April turned into May . |
| 8 | For Joshua , at sixty-two , and suffering from a bad leg , distances had begun to take on an extraordinary significance . |
| 9 | Back in Vienna , Constanze , for once not pregnant , had begun to take over the financial reins with great aplomb . |
| 10 | The enterprise which had begun to take off in Napoleonic Paris had undoubtedly made enormous progress ; far more was known about the world than had been a generation or two earlier . |
| 11 | By 1984 , however , economic growth had begun to pick up again . |
| 12 | She had begun to push back her chair when Joe spoke suddenly . |
| 13 | There was a definite sigh of disappointment from the congregation below , some of whom had begun to join in , but then an apathetic silence resumed under the usual , dirge-like strains of ‘ Soul of My Saviour . ’ |
| 14 | She knew very little about surgery and nothing about childbirth , but she had a fund of common sense , and the moment she had pushed through the useless , wailing women downstairs , and seen the squalid room in which Dr Neil was working , she had begun to dredge up what little she knew in order to help him . |
| 15 | To give an extreme example , fiscal policies designed to increase employment might take effect after a year , when , say , the economy had begun to move out of the recession . |
| 16 | In fact on 9 May , virtually surrounded by Tito 's armies in northern Yugoslavia , Gen Loehr negotiated for the surrender of all his forces to Tito , and many individual units had begun to lay down their arms . |
| 17 | Already Quentin had begun to tidy up the garden for the Easter Fete . |
| 18 | Lesley had begun to gather up the remaining cups , but at the mention of Charlotte 's name she put down the tray abruptly , and turned with a startled smile . |
| 19 | The Suffolk police had begun hunting up previous owners of Wyvis Hall and they had been alerted that a Verne-Smith lived in their area . |
| 20 | In a brief campaign , Aurangzeb had seized the empire , imprisoned his father , and had begun hunting down and murdering his three brothers . |
| 21 | Two inoculation houses were opened in London by the end of the year and , in conjunction with his father and brothers , he had begun setting up partnerships throughout the country with ‘ Eminent physicians and surgeons daily applying … to be appointed partners for particular counties , or for foreign parts ’ . |
| 22 | It had always had a few troops in its settlements to defend property locally , but even when it had begun building up its own little army it had only about 3,000 men in 1749 . |
| 23 | The filly had begun to reel about , the breathing louder and more stertorous than ever , and I had difficulty in keeping the stethoscope on her chest wall . |
| 24 | By the time the first sharp feelings of his loss had begun to wear off - it would be very many years before all of it did so , and arguable that it ever did — other voices were beckoning . |
| 25 | The pair of them had probably not been having an affair for long — only perhaps after Kemp 's long infatuation with the semi-permanently sozzled Sheila had begun to wear off . |
| 26 | Nonetheless , Saville also pointed out that the rate of decline had begun to slow down , and this was also confirmed by other studies of the time . |
| 27 | But once one lineage had begun to build up a team of genes for dealing with meat rather than grass , the process was self-reinforcing . |
| 28 | And once the other lineage had begun to build up a team of genes for dealing with grass rather than meat , that process was self-reinforcing in the other direction . |
| 29 | er I mean I , I do n't think that had begun to build up but yes I mean that , that is coming to be a problem . |
| 30 | From New York , meanwhile , Wilcock had begun to send over copies of EVO , which meant that the Australian had become more aware than most in London of the underground explosion across the Atlantic . |