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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The nocturne began to grow again and the music was her essence . |
| 4 | For best economy proceed as above , but continue to lean until the engine begins to run roughly or the rpm begins to drop rapidly . |
| 5 | ( 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 . |