Example sentences of "began [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | The founder of the theory of scales which is commonly used as the basis for social measurement is the psychologist S.S. Stevens , whose ideas began to crystallise in the 1940s in response to a challenge issued , in 1932 , by physicists and psychologists of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to " assess the possibility of " " quantitative estimates of sensory events " " . |
2 | She began to go through the whole thing in her prayer and then realized that God of course would know anyway , so she simply asked if it could be that Timothy Gedge was possessed by devils . |
3 | Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time . |
4 | Very slowly , she began to go down the stairs , step by step , wincing every time one creaked and glancing over her shoulder every ten seconds or so . |
5 | The so this alleyway has been here since at least sixteen ninety , probably rather earlier when the house began to go down the drain as it were , down the plughole . |
6 | But after a while she wanted a change from her routine and began to go on the weekly trips regularly . |
7 | The twins also began to see towards the end of the book that Piggy was very clever and started to show him some respect . |
8 | As will be discussed in Chapter 10 , the first big generation of owner-occupiers began to retire from the 1960s onwards . |
9 | The knee itself began to slide into the dark , smooth pastel paper on the wall ; smoothly and neatly . |
10 | They turned , staying in the centre of Cheapside as the melting snow began to slide from the sloping tiled roofs . |
11 | Commercial Union began to cope with the temporary loss of its headquarters building by making the maximum use of available space elsewhere . |
12 | Its strength was a nose for commerce which soon manifested itself , so that by the twelfth century , the authority of an effete aristocracy began to dwindle as the power of the merchants correspondingly grew . |
13 | As we crossed ground that became increasingly boggy , the vegetation increasingly salt-spattered and sparse , Tony began to enthuse on the likelihood of our seeing geese and red-necked phalaropes . |
14 | Anna turned , saw me waving , and began to amble through the line of cars with her nose n the air , looking entirely unconcerned about her own and everyone else 's safety . |
15 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
16 | Spurred by a sense of the growing opposition , especially after Chernobyl , it began to agitate at the grass roots . |
17 | She began to drive to the outskirts of Grantley . |
18 | She started the engine without waiting for an answer and began to drive along the track winding down the mountain . |
19 | He began to beat at his head with his gloved hands as his face began to sink into the floor . |
20 | One of Gilbert 's gloves flew off , and the next time his hand hit the floor it stuck and began to sink into the carpet pile . |
21 | The creature began to sink beneath the water , pulling the boat along with it . |
22 | It began to burrow towards the factory . |
23 | The lights came on again , and , laughing and jostling , the guests began to stream towards the door . |
24 | He ‘ began to stroll round the park , observing the lewd behaviour of the couples lying on the grass . |
25 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
26 | He began to realize from the nature of these sites how the leys could have been constructed . |
27 | In 1962 the International Situationists began to impinge on the wilder fringes of Gallic politics , with the publication of Raoul Vaneigem 's Totality For Kids . |
28 | And he began to connect to the nascent counter-culture , visiting Pete Brown 's home in Oppidans Road , Primrose Hill . |
29 | On the way home from school that afternoon she began to mull over the various possibilities , and when at last the germ of a brilliant idea hit her , she began to expand on it and lay her plans with the same kind of care the Duke of Wellington had done before the Battle of Waterloo . |
30 | From the Second World War the percentage of local government income derived from grants increased steadily and although the proportion began to fall during the 1980s ( as a result of public expenditure restraint policies ) it is still sufficient to provide central government with a powerful instrument for influencing local authorities . |