Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [adv] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He breathed a sigh of relief as he heard Corbett begin to play gently on the lute he always carried , a sign his master was content , reflecting on his own secret thoughts and not keeping a wary eye on him . |
2 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
3 | By the 1940s and 1950s the Red Poll was one of Britain 's major breeds but , in the rush to set up new herds , breeding standards began to slip badly on the farm , while at the same time the invading Friesian , fed on concentrates , considerably outyielded the breed and by the early 1960s its popularity had tumbled . |
4 | At once the crabber began to bounce about on the waves , as though the Angharad was dancing a jig over the water in her pleasure at taking a trip . |
5 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
6 | It was at about this time that Charles acquired a tutor and through him began to look out on the world through a learned man 's eyes . |
7 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
8 | Angus slouched like a spoiled brat , nodded and began to tap noisily on the table top with his fingers . |
9 | With a quick sigh of relief she saw Jill and other members of the emergency resuscitation team beginning to arrive breathlessly on the scene . |
10 | The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade . |
11 | The night before Nenna and her two daughters were due to leave England , storm weather began to blow up on the Reach . |
12 | He could see the River Thames below with the new high-rise housing blocks already beginning to show up on the skyline . |
13 | The authorities in Hainan in southern China have begun to crack down on the hunting , selling and buying of protected animals in the province . |
14 | SINCE artworks began to flood out of China in the early 1980s — mostly smuggled by sea to Macao or Hong Kong — extraordinary rarities , hitherto unknown in the West , have begun to turn up on the market . |