Example sentences of "begun [to-vb] at the " in BNC.

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1 It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone .
2 Again in 1960 , the EEC had begun to look at the problem of discrimination in transport , and in 1961 a Monetary Committee was established , as well as one charged with examining trade cycle policy .
3 Ethologists have not yet begun to grasp at the crucial characteristic of human beings that tends to invalidate all but the most cautious inferences from other animals to Man .
4 He had begun to tremble at the very thought .
5 Signs of the tenacious Selina ambition had already begun to show at the age of 13 when she secured her first job on the Darlington and Stockton Times .
6 Such dramatic attempts at direct action were not the only ways in which people had begun to protest at the development of nuclear power .
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