Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [adv] [coord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He progressed north-east , using the uplift warily at first but then with increasing confidence , soaring round and round in its rising power and powering forward for miles , until he saw the hills begin to falter ahead and the ground to flatten unpromisingly . |
| 2 | At around the same time , the first 66MHz versions should begin to trickle out and the company says that we should also expect a Pentium-based desktop machine in the ErgoPro range . |
| 3 | At around the same time , the first 66MHz versions should begin to trickle out and the company says that we should also expect a Pentium-based desktop machine in the ErgoPro range . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , public interest then began to fall off and the sing was suspended from 1866 until 1894 , except for a special event to raise funds for new public baths for Holmfirth in 1887 . |
| 5 | When the islands were first settled , the population began to increase rapidly and the number of inhabitants soon exceeded the resources , prompting emigration to other Portuguese lands . |
| 6 | The nocturne began to grow again and the music was her essence . |
| 7 | Her cheeks began to fill out and the hollows by her collar bone were less noticeable , but the dullness in her blue eyes persisted . |
| 8 | The end came soon after the 62-year old patient 's kidneys began to shut down and the amount of blood pumped by his artificial heart dropped . |
| 9 | Once a grass-snake slid across the path in front of her and made her halt sharply with a startled cry , but she went resolutely on again , and at last the trees began to thin out and the patch of sky in front of her widen . |
| 10 | The birds hopped and sang for perhaps two minutes ; then the mechanism began to run down and the birds hopped more and more slowly and heavily , the twittering drew itself out in gasps . |
| 11 | The dawn chorus was beginning to die down and the glimpses of the sky through the branches were now blue and golden . |
| 12 | Word of it is beginning to get round and the Copts are already showing signs of growing restive . |
| 13 | The disaster on the London-Belfast flight happened after one of the Boeing 's two engines began to break up and the crew mistakenly shut down the other one . |
| 14 | It was only when democracy was restored in Spain that this legacy truly began to break down and the form of state enterprises changed to accommodate the interests of organized labour . |
| 15 | For best economy proceed as above , but continue to lean until the engine begins to run roughly or the rpm begins to drop rapidly . |
| 16 | ( 3 ) If in contemporary pragmatics , the signified begins to wither away and the signifier to function as a referent , in surrealism ( and to this extent surrealism is postmodern ) the referent functions as a signifier . |
| 17 | If the central bank is forced to print money then inflation begins to take off and the economy languishes . |