Example sentences of "beginning [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw with pleasure that she looked cold but not frightened ; she was beginning to swim more slowly and for the first time with trust , as if the water were a friendly and not an alien element . |
| 2 | ‘ Though I 'm getting the impression , ’ he continued , beginning to breathe more heavily and increasing the pressure of his fingers , ‘ that you quite like the heat — despite your ladylike protestations to the contrary … ’ |
| 3 | At this point I could see that Maxine was beginning to breathe more quickly and that she was becoming restless . |
| 4 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 5 | AS the Belfast and District Chess league draws to a close , the various promotion and relegation issues are beginning to fall more clearly into place . |
| 6 | Rose was beginning to go regularly again to her mother 's house . |
| 7 | It did seem a little hard that , just when things were beginning to go really well , the even tenor of their lives should be upset by the arrival of someone else — someone who , although a friend , was none the less a stranger . |
| 8 | The condescension was beginning to go too far . |
| 9 | And indeed , with old age , Rita Ablewhite was beginning to appear slightly less abnormal : behaviour strange in a healthy thirty-five-year-old was more acceptable at seventy . |
| 10 | ‘ You can let me go now , ’ Jenna said stiffly , reminding him that he was still holding her in arms that were beginning to tighten almost imperceptibly . |
| 11 | Women with disabilities are beginning to meet regularly again and there is talk also of reactivating the Liberation Network . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's beginning to fit much better , ’ said my mother . |
| 13 | J. and I spent that Christmas at our separate homes , but were back on camp for the New Year celebrations , the first new year of peacetime for seven years , and as 1945 drew to a close most of us were beginning to look tentatively ahead to the future when we would no longer be bound by the rules and regulations which had fenced us in for so long , and to wonder where we would all be in another twelve months . |
| 14 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 15 | ‘ And … and I certainly would n't have answered them , even if I had ! ’ she told him fiercely before spinning quickly around on her heels and beginning to walk rapidly away down the street . |
| 16 | On the subject of personal hygiene and ‘ standards ’ in general , I had noticed that I was beginning to swear rather too much in my own thoughts . |
| 17 | There is no evidence , however , of surgery patients beginning to cost substantially less , and thereby reversing the large differences in the first year . |
| 18 | The fourth boy , however , slipped and fell to his knees and was only beginning to scramble upright again when the fender caught his chest with a thud that shook the vehicle . |
| 19 | He stood up in the controlled , fluid style she was beginning to recognise as peculiarly his , and came around the desk again . |
| 20 | Those EIGHTs who are just beginning to read well now enjoy reading spontaneously . |
| 21 | The public is beginning to question more closely how this money that they have contributed is being spent . |
| 22 | It was to be 1858 before the government explicitly extended freedom of speech , but inadvertently it was beginning to relax as early as 1856 . |
| 23 | ‘ And in a perverse way this is something which may be helpful because they are now beginning to appreciate more clearly the fear that has existed within the Protestant community for the past 20 years as they have been killed at random by the IRA , ’ he added . |
| 24 | Hyacinth was what David Swan 's mother would have called ‘ a bonny lass ’ and David was beginning to think so too . |
| 25 | He could think of two of his fellow students who might be suitable but they too had degree courses to finish and Adam was beginning to think very seriously of not returning to college . |
| 26 | A few minutes later , as he turned right into the Banbury Road , now beginning to think once more with some semblance of rationality , Morse considered whether his witness had been telling him the whole truth . |
| 27 | It was beginning to fail even then . ’ |
| 28 | This period of consolidation has however , seen considerable work on technical specification , and things are beginning to happen once again . |
| 29 | He was also beginning to rely very heavily on her sound judgement on a number of things . |
| 30 | She was beginning to speak more loudly , so that all could hear . |