Example sentences of "had [adv] begun [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally-Anne could see that the good doctor , as she had naughtily begun to call him , was going to take a great deal of delight in mercilessly teasing her about Mr Sands . |
| 2 | She would teach Creggan the eagle lore she knew , and remind Kraal of what he had perhaps begun to forget . |
| 3 | After they had all begun to move away , twitching up astrakhan collars , eyeing him sharply , Gaily remained beside the new grave . |
| 4 | Not since she had walked down her path on that evening when it had all begun had she felt such a sure and unmistakeable feeling of threat and menace . |
| 5 | It had all begun to unravel with Sir Keith Joseph 's Damascus Road conversion in September 1974 , announced during his seminal speech in Preston . |
| 6 | The ministry said it had only begun to take meat samples . |
| 7 | The garrison , in spite of everything and without the assistance of the Collector , continued to labour between one downpour and the next to prevent their walls of mud from oozing back into the plain from which they had been dug , but the number of men available to wield a shovel had suddenly begun to decrease alarmingly . |
| 8 | Excavations in its interior demonstrated extensive occupation , which had apparently begun to decline in the AD 70s , perhaps in the wake of increasing migration towards a more convenient centre on the road network . |
| 9 | In the mid-1980s the government had already begun to implement austerity measures which cut spending and led to price rises . |
| 10 | But it was the scientist alone who could make sense of the discoveries , and late eighteenth-century naturalists had already begun to puzzle over the bones of gigantic elephant-like creatures found both in America and in Europe . |
| 11 | Maxim tried to turn his head to see , but Billy Dann had already begun to talk before he came into view , with Dave Tanner limping behind . |
| 12 | The Prelude , which is , in fact , the nearest thing to the great philosophical poem which Coleridge hoped Wordsworth would produce , was mostly written while Coleridge was in Malta , and it is as an exposition of Wordsworth 's ideas that we must read it ; for Coleridge , as we shall see , had already begun to return to orthodox Christianity and in 1803 was shocked at Wordsworth 's irreverence : ‘ O dearest William ! |
| 13 | The Commission so stirred the Poles , that while it had initially been possible for them to buy up Polish estates for German settlement , by 1898 , when the Prussian Landtag voted an additional 100 million marks for the Commission 's use , the Poles had already begun to see the sale of land to the Commission as a crime against the nation and had begun to organise their own agricultural co-operatives and credit unions . |
| 14 | But they were , nevertheless , pleased to rediscover one another , and sat up late on their first evening in Esther 's room , which had already begun to put out hints of its later decorative eccentricities . |
| 15 | From the curvature of the arc , I had already begun to estimate the position of the hub . |
| 16 | The organisers had already begun to promise a strong local bill topped by the two biggest attractions in Manchester at the time , The Chameleons and , of course , The Smiths . |
| 17 | The banks of the Susquehannah lay out of reach as a setting in which to realize this vision ; the streams which flowed from the Quantock Hills passed through a landscape which had already begun to seem hardly less desirable . |
| 18 | But difficult as the schism was for many workers and indeed activists to understand or justify , its far-reaching ramifications had already begun to emerge . |
| 19 | This had already begun to gather steam with the publication in February 1988 of a White Paper which promised special protection for the nuclear industry . |
| 20 | On the strength of the parcels sent back to him by his brothers-in-law , and what Gould described as his ‘ own exceedingly rich collection , perhaps the finest extant ’ , he had already begun to publish a volume entitled A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia and the Adjacent Islands . |
| 21 | They would be coming back to education , however , to build upon the qualifications they had already begun to acquire , and would feel at least equal , if not superior in some respects , to their peers who had remained in full-time education . |
| 22 | He had already begun publishing on electromagnetism , and in a paper of 1847 he suggested an analogy between an incompressible solid and a magnetic field . |
| 23 | Marx 's works had already begun to penetrate Russia earlier , but until now they had been used to buttress populist attacks on capitalism , rather than to develop a Marxist approach to revolution in Russia . |
| 24 | Signs like these were enough to convince educated contemporaries that it was worth trying to maintain the pressure on the authorities which they had already begun to generate . |
| 25 | He had already begun to wonder if fusion could be responsible for the helium production when he discovered the Soviet paper on helium in metals — the same paper that the Indians had read . |
| 26 | In a couple of landscapes executed at Carrières Saint-Denis , where he had spent a week or so working in the company of Derain , late in the autumn of 1909 , Braque had already begun to transform the subtlety and observational quality of the Roche Guyon landscapes into tighter , more arbitrary compositions , reminiscent in the emphasis on the vertical and horizontal structure broken by forty-five degree diagonals ( and also in colour , which is once again darker and harsher ) of the Maisons à Estaque . |
| 27 | Suddenly she knew that , without her having noticed it was happening , her sense of permanence , her feeling of stability , had already begun to crumble . |
| 28 | The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons . |
| 29 | More than that , a twin sister I had already begun to love dearly , called Donna . ’ |
| 30 | She still faced me , but her shoulders had already begun to turn away … |