Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [conj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A moment later the men who watched it explode from the verandah felt their ragged clothes begin to flap and flutter in the blast . |
| 2 | Make people feel that their own poor life is ever so little , beautiful and poetical ; then they will begin to turn and seek after the treasures of beauty and poetry outside and above it . |
| 3 | He was shaking now , taking in the fact that she meant it , feeling his heart begin to twist and crinkle like the burning books in Fahrenheit 451 . |
| 4 | Fronds of bladderwrack began to stiffen and blanch in the sun . |
| 5 | ‘ But surely , not now ! ’ thought Creggan as , to his astonishment , Woil began to peck and ferret among the rubbish in the bin , ignoring the approaching man altogether . |
| 6 | We were already beginning to try and live by the diet . |
| 7 | The wind rose and the long grass began to flutter and ripple in the dip between them . |
| 8 | But Deana 's persecution , continued more subtly and covertly as the days went by , had left its sting , and she began to wonder if living in the nurses ' home was really the right thing . |
| 9 | Its edges , at first three-dimensionally sharp and rigid , after a while began to wave and shimmer on the red heat of the sand . |
| 10 | Reynolds went back and found an electric flashlight by the boiler , and with this he began to stab and search through the first of the three rooms . |
| 11 | He began to run and jump across the white rocks , exhilarated by the emptiness all round . |
| 12 | Clouds of mosquitoes were beginning to arrive and settle on the wounded . |
| 13 | The kid began to laugh and steam up the window-pane , then started slapping the glass with a tiny hand leaving greasy fingerprints . |
| 14 | Piano music rippled out into the night as the richly costumed guests began to chatter and exclaim at the torch-lit façade and its huge swags of greenery laced with balloons and ribbons . |
| 15 | People walking along the promenade were beginning to stop and lean on the iron bar at the top end of the beach to look at the Africans . |
| 16 | The Danes also began to attack and raid along the Flemish and Frisian coasts , reaching as far south as the mouth of the Seine . |
| 17 | as if it were a natural follow-on from this behaviour , the earthen surfaces of the graves began to rise and fall like the chests of sleepers . |
| 18 | The tyre then begins to slide and scrubs off the excess speed which could n't safely be lost with a more drastic pull on the brake . |
| 19 | In contemporary times , the cultural field of these symbol-producing middle classes undergoes such expansion , such ‘ mass-ification ’ , that it begins to engulf or implode into the more general social field itself . |
| 20 | It begins to gurgle and pull on the foot more noticeably . |