Example sentences of "began [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between groups — each group began to see the other group as ‘ the enemy ’ , hostility between groups increased whilst communication between them decreased ; stereotyped opinions of the other side began to emerge , especially negative stereotypes . |
| 2 | I began to see the subtle pressures towards our Western ideals creeping into Eastern Europe even in music and fashion . |
| 3 | Grainne listened , absorbed and serious , and in her mind she began to see the old Ireland , the Ireland of the lost enchantments , very clearly . |
| 4 | When I 'd finished we began to see the funny side of it and ended up laughing . |
| 5 | Around him he began to see the unfolding beauty of early summer in his homeland and it held him still with wonder and made him forget the passing of the days . |
| 6 | Europeans were concerned at the expansion of American investment into Europe ; Americans began to see the Common Market ( created by France , Germany , Italy and the Benelux states ) , as a trade rival and argued that Europe should pay more for its own defence . |
| 7 | We began producing the big catalogues to go with the shows . |
| 8 | For example , his eyes were necessary for the finding of food and the locating of enemies , to name but two of many purely necessary functions , but there must have been a time when he first began to enjoy the visual beauty all around him . |
| 9 | After a while she began to enjoy the pure clear voices of the Sisters . |
| 10 | Two brown pelicans flapped past as I began shaping the broken ends of Masquerade 's shattered planking . |
| 11 | In 1903 a German syndicate began building the present sanatorium and the Hospital of Marmeleiros . |
| 12 | Caro began to arrange the sweet peas in a vase . |
| 13 | He began to mount the uncarpeted stairs . |
| 14 | Dersingham looked to neither left nor right but strode across the hall and began to mount the uncarpeted wooden staircase . |
| 15 | Juron held his knife to the dead man 's brow and began sawing the monomolecular edge through bone . |
| 16 | The man nodded and behind him Dai gave a shrug of resignation and began to search the small house . |
| 17 | When he was nineteen , Reza Shah decided that the Crown Princes marriage was due and so he began trawling the Middle East for the most suitable wife — from a dynastic point of view . |
| 18 | I found myself in the Alps with a narrow pass before me , began to ascend the rough and desolate track . |
| 19 | As controlling designer for the exhibition , Tait , together with Coia and Spence , mounted the hoist and began to ascend the half-completed tower . |
| 20 | She put down her leather dressing-case the dark green one with a strap across the lid — that went with her on train journeys , and began to untie the knotted napkins . |
| 21 | They sure looked smart , he thought , and from that moment he began to cultivate the straight , dignified bearing which was to be his hallmark in later life ; only occasionally did he forget and relapse into his old North American droop . |
| 22 | In the Edwardian era , with company revenues falling , the companies began to cultivate the suburban commuter . |
| 23 | He also began using the fashionable technique of mixing wax resists with gouache and watercolour , a technique which Minton once described as ‘ a matter of the successful steering of accident ’ . |
| 24 | By the late 1660s it is almost certain that , as Thomas Shadwell [ q.v. ] suggests in The Medal of John Bayes ( 1682 ) , he began employing the young Dryden to write prefaces , commencing a relationship that developed through the 1660s and 1670s when Herringman bought up the copyrights to most of Dryden 's work . |
| 25 | He looked around in alarm when he began to smell the escaping gas , and quickly noticed the smashed tap . |
| 26 | Soon , below them , they began to smell the revolting hot stench of the Gruncher 's breath , and the orange-red smoke was now billowing up into the lower branches in thick clouds . |
| 27 | And to aid this he began numbering the main verbs . |
| 28 | Lothian Regional Council began acquiring the various disused lines in 1981 and the programme of converting them to cycleway/footpaths will be continuing until the early 1990s . |
| 29 | Her nimble fingers began to caress the wrinkled pouch which was his scrotum , and to fondle the two unequal balls which were his testicles ; while her soft lips slid erotically down his shaft taking more and more of his quickly swelling cock into her sweet mouth . |
| 30 | ‘ Naylor ! ’ she sighed again in the utmost rapture , and , clutching him , had not the smallest demur to make when he removed her bra and began to caress the swollen mounds of her pink-tipped breasts . |