Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ . |
| 2 | The study will monitor how far Down 's Syndrome adults begin to move away from their natural families for residential and social purposes . |
| 3 | In the 1990s there was only the hope that her fires , so vigorously stoked up by the dispossessed , would begin to burn down of their own accord . |
| 4 | The year saw the enhanced Luton Depot begin to operate properly with its normal workload , but also supporting the Special Plant and Electrical Installation Departments which had also relocated from their previous Southall base . |
| 5 | Roger suddenly began to struggle out of his wet shirt . |
| 6 | There are a few District Health Authorities who are already grasping the nettle and beginning to work closely with their local authority colleagues to ensure the implementation of the community care proposals , but close joint working is very patchy across the country . |
| 7 | Mrs Frizzell immediately saw the relevance of his advice and began to look more like her normal self . |
| 8 | As the recital proceeded , the teachers began to drift off to their appointed confessional boxes , anxious to miss , on any excuse , as much as possible of the headmaster 's address . |
| 9 | Decorative drawings dessins de charme however , fared well , with Paris clients beginning to venture out of their beloved eighteenth century . |
| 10 | Marie was half-way to Bella 's house when self-doubt began to gnaw away at her new-found confidence and her sense of purpose crumbled . |
| 11 | Within moments the wine , the heat and the excitement of the day caught up with her and she began to snore softly into his thick cable-knit cardigan . |
| 12 | ‘ What he can do , I can do ’ I thought , and I again began to venture out to our local small cinema on my evening off . |
| 13 | Robyn saw the tightness in his expression , the grim set of his jaw and began to scramble up from her half-lying position on the settee . |
| 14 | ‘ Prescott first , ’ said Trentham , and Tommy pushed himself up on to his knees and began to crawl slowly towards his own trenches . |
| 15 | Either way , it 's a shocking lot of money for something which never began to live up to its pre-launch hype . |
| 16 | It was only when it was sold that the bank began to face up to its other problems , ’ said one former executive . |
| 17 | I entered Dover at nightfall just as the sky darkened and rain began to beat down on my plumed cap . |
| 18 | Having survived the opening 20 minutes , ‘ Mill began to break out of their defensive shell and find space behind the Hammer defence . |
| 19 | The art begins to seep deep into his psychological being . |
| 20 | The wind begins to moan ghoulishly between their blistered tubular legs . |
| 21 | The government 's North Sea oil take is depressed at present but will be on a rising trend as production begins to rise again to its 1985 peak and could account for more than a third of public spending . |