Example sentences of "began [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he began to see that friendship and love , shown to our marriage partner , our friends and to God himself , are ultimately the most important dimensions of life . |
| 2 | With the improvement of transport during the nineteenth century , building materials were more frequently carried over greater distances , and soon after the opening of railways houses began to lose that harmony with the countryside so characteristic of the older cottages . |
| 3 | As the 1960s went by , cynics began to observe that barrack building in an overseas territory was a sure sign that it would soon be granted its independence ! |
| 4 | Soviet officials began to accept that ASEAN was not an American- or Western-controlled body , although they remained ambivalent about the developing emphasis on regional political cooperation within ASEAN . |
| 5 | At the same time , medical and social science research began to indicate that retirement itself had detrimental effects . |
| 6 | At the same time , people began to discover that irradiation not only arrests the growth of some cancers , but can have the opposite effect and generate new cancers in tissues which received excessive exposure . |
| 7 | The equal opportunity for social mobility was a commonplace in the public mind but pressure of numbers began to render that equality suspect , since it seemed unequal in fact . |
| 8 | From that time on , she began to avoid that gesture ( it is not easy to break the habit of gestures altogether ) . |
| 9 | So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction |
| 10 | When their paths crossed years later at Manchester United , Morgan admits that he ‘ thought the world of The Doc ’ but slowly , bit by bit , it began to emerge that Docherty was mistreating some players and scheming against others . |
| 11 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 12 | Long John began to sing that song I knew so well : |
| 13 | C c can you gi give me some clue now a about w when the penny began to drop that trouble was going to g g going to start ? |
| 14 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 15 | True to Bonnie 's prediction it began snowing that night . |