Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [noun] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It 's possible to use a game as a way of demonstrating to children how they can begin to take responsibility for their own learning .
2 Garrimperos are now beginning to sink shafts to mine primary gold .
3 Skilfully he tuned every nerve in her narrow body to such a concert pitch of response that she began to initiate caresses of her own , delighting in her power as rippling muscles tightened beneath her questing hands .
4 As the romance gathered momentum , Diana began to harbour doubts about her new friend Camilla Parker-Bowles .
5 With a sound that was half-laugh and half-sob , she began to rain kisses on his ashen face .
6 What frightened him most was the still figure of William Tanner lying prone beside the office wall , blood already beginning to turn dark on his battered face .
7 I wonder , however , if they are beginning to have suspicions about our parking-lot creeds and oven-ready ideas .
8 She was beginning to have dreams of her own and hers would proceed to action .
9 It was n't just to please her companions , but because she was beginning to have doubts about her original opinion .
10 He was beginning to get cramp in his right leg .
11 Later , as the Shah began to get news of his own , repaid their kindness by giving them the stop press himself .
12 ‘ There speaks the man who drove us here at such breakneck speed that I began to take pity on his poor Ferrari 's engine .
13 Beginning to take responsibility for their own property , they may be proud to count how many paintings they have done or sort their work from the pile , to take home .
14 He continued to flick the crop , but now the leather flap began to make contact with her tender flesh .
15 The British Judo Association has already begun to make use of her vast experience .
16 As early as 1339 , the town of Cambrai had begun to introduce firepower into its defensive system , an exceptionally early example of the use of such techniques .
17 In Figure 6.11 ( a ) the Earth is rotating almost fast enough to begin to lose mass from its equatorial regions .
18 Since this evidence is patchy , the chapter also begins to identify areas in which future research seems important .
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