Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [prep] [noun] of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Family views about what is naughty or good start to be absorbed as mothers begin to talk about transgression of family rules or social behaviour .
2 If there 's a drought , how that drought affects people so that they actually begin to starve from want of food .
3 This chapter presents a series of cameos which together begin to sketch in aspects of life in a northern town and its comprehensive school .
4 As soon as the French war in Vietnam started the US began to think about forms of intervention .
5 One began to think in terms of wasp stings .
6 Enterprises began to close for lack of fuel or materials , and officials warned that 35,000 people could be laid off work by the end of the month .
7 Just as the critics were beginning to complain about overdoses of city life along came Cagney to inject new energy into the genre and in effect to open up a new era for the movies .
8 People began to complain about feelings of sickness , vomiting , diarrhoea and headaches .
9 Bake for at least 1 hour or until the cake has just begun to shrink from sides of tin and is springy to the touch — a skewer inserted into the centre should come out clean .
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