Example sentences of "began [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny Marr began to slide towards potential alcoholism , drinking a bottle of Remy Martin a night , and the band began to drift apart . |
| 2 | As soon as they were taken from shelter , they began to slide on locked wheels over the yard , and then to tilt . |
| 3 | Shells now began to fall with increasing regularity among closely packed men . |
| 4 | Outside snow began to fall in large fat flakes . |
| 5 | Rain began to fall in large heavy drops . |
| 6 | Opposition also began to mount among concerned citizens of the area , an opposition which manifested itself both individually and through the Ringaskiddy Residents ' Association , formed two years previously , which had not involved itself in any controversy over previous planning applications for industrial projects in the area . |
| 7 | When it was realised that , in proportion to body weight , women 's brains were in fact heavier than those of men , scientists began to search for other measures of difference . |
| 8 | The police began to search for various people but our security system was very good and we had been warned about what was happening . |
| 9 | Even the left-wing Tony Benn was relatively quiescent , not least perhaps because he was now the bringer of good news at the Department of Energy , as North Sea oil began to flow in large quantities . |
| 10 | Numerous stories began to circulate of American machinations and claim-jumping at the expense of the British . |
| 11 | They began to meet in private houses where they read sermons and prayed together . |
| 12 | The second plaintiff to remove itself from the action was Thai Farmers Bank , of which the judge in the case commented : ‘ The other development is more disturbing in that from January 1983 the local manager of Thai Farmers Bank began to provide to other banks references for Berg which either misrepresented the true position of Berg 's accounts with Thai Farmers Bank or at the least concealed the true position without making it clear that there was highly relevant information about Berg which they were declining to give . |
| 13 | However , as we have noted before , by the end of the nineteenth century Englishmen began to worry about American competition , especially in cheaper means of manufacture . |
| 14 | And her breath , as she smiled , began to catch in weak , involuntary sobs ; so that he bent over her , his cheek against hers , his arms embracing hers in spectral and impotent comfort . |
| 15 | I 'm partial to a nice pun , and BT 's image began to soar in direct ratio to the growing number of commercials on the air . |
| 16 | When , in 1856 , Nikolai Pirogov began to write about educational matters in the press , the government responded by re-establishing the long-dead Academic Committee of the Ministry of Education . |
| 17 | He began to shake with suppressed laughter . |
| 18 | She stopped as he began to shake with suppressed laughter , then added indignantly , ‘ I 'm serious , Robert . |
| 19 | Experimental results showing the involvement of RNA and protein synthesis in memory formation could readily be accommodated to the new molecular thinking , but what really raised the temperature of the whole enterprise were reports that began to appear of bizarre memory experiments involving planaria . |
| 20 | The somewhat opaque slogan of a ‘ strong centre and strong republics ’ began to appear in official speeches from early 1989 . |
| 21 | Villages began to engage in increasing specialization within the general sphere of market gardening , with those nearest the towns producing the most perishable or bulky goods . |
| 22 | The government also began to engage in certain measures of economic management . |
| 23 | She jerked a mouthful from between the spars and began to chew with quiet satisfaction . |
| 24 | At night , after those incandescent afternoons , the sky was deep blue and filled with stars , which in August began to shoot in great arcs across the sky . |
| 25 | The prototype , G–ABUZ , first flew in 1932 , and the aircraft began to sell in reasonable numbers , also being produced with a retractable undercarriage as the ST–6 . |
| 26 | A few scientists began to think in terms of ‘ Little Bangs ’ ; later , more of them began to wonder about white holes . |
| 27 | The pool of officers who could be called upon to man the general Waterguard Service and selected applicants began to serve as junior trainees on the boats , literally learning the ropes as they went along . |
| 28 | Thick , greasy black smoke began to pour from loosened fittings around the flight deck . |
| 29 | At this point the market began to bulge with new and lower priced devices such as the ImageMaker with its idiosyncratic optical font wheel , the Montage FR1 and the promised but rarely seen Mirus — a company in which Apple holds a 20% stake . |
| 30 | Rovers began to tire under intense pressure from the St Helens pack . |