Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the musical ascendancy of Italy did not begin to assert itself immediately after the deaths of Josquin and Isaac and their great contemporaries , Pierre de La Rue and Loyset Compere , its foundations were already laid . |
| 2 | Lancaster slipped off his spectacles and began to clean them meticulously with a white handkerchief , scouring the rims with his fingernails . |
| 3 | Just as they were about to give up hope of finding their way a huge while wolf appeared , which instead of attacking them began to guide them skilfully through the dark wood . |
| 4 | ‘ It began to overhaul itself only as a result of demands from the public and from individual scientists . ’ |
| 5 | He gripped the side of a curved triangular plate which was fitted to the wall , and began to manoeuvre himself further into the shaft . |
| 6 | She began to pack them together in a pile . |
| 7 | The archosaurs , however , gradually began to raise themselves permanently off the ground . |
| 8 | The United States was increasingly distracted by Vietnam , while in 1966 France began to disengage itself militarily from the alliance . |
| 9 | What she craved was the security of marriage and was only too pleased when Charles began to take her seriously during the summer of 1980 . |
| 10 | He reached beneath the saddle and dipped his fingers in the shelf of scented unguents , then began to smear them delicately about the tiny hole , pushing inward , the unguents working their magic spell , making the muscles relax . |
| 11 | It had not been lessened when William of Ypres , the surly Flemish commander of the royalist army , had begun to question her extensively about the size and strength of the garrisons at Gloucester and Bristol , the state of the Empress 's exchequer , the loyalty of her supporters , and whether Geoffrey of Anjou was planning an invasion of England to help himself to the throne by right of his wife . |
| 12 | The hunchback takes the chair and begins to push it slowly across the grass . |