Example sentences of "began [to-vb] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nearest birds began to pitch on a higher , longer , more anxious note . |
| 2 | Sit , they said , but he would n't This week John Major began to appear on a different kind of box . |
| 3 | Three days later , as the sun began to set on a cloudless horizon , we reached the ‘ comforts ’ of the highest permanent army outpost . |
| 4 | For him , life began to turn on a Sunday evening two weeks ago in his Bratislava prison cell after he had been pardoned by the country 's president , Mr Gustav Husak . |
| 5 | Hence , there is little that is surprising , in my view , in the fact that when movements for popular sovereignty and democracy began to develop on a large scale among colonial and dependent peoples , in the course of the twentieth century , they should have taken as their political model the established nation states , and have become strongly infused with nationalism . |
| 6 | It was when power reached the cotton , woollen , and iron industries that the face of the country really began to change on a large scale , and that was not until the 1770s . |