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

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1 The so this alleyway has been here since at least sixteen ninety , probably rather earlier when the house began to go down the drain as it were , down the plughole .
2 By the time he wrote the survey quoted above , evolutionary morphology was beginning to fall into the background as new sciences such as genetics took over the forefront of scientific research .
3 The car 's powerful engine began to tick in the silence as it cooled in the mild evening breeze .
4 Foam began to spread through the air as the fire-fighting systems reacted automatically to the emergency .
5 This situation began to change under the Yorkists as Edward IV built up the royal estates and improved their management .
6 Sometimes the wheelbarrow was stuck so firmly that the aluminium honeycomb began to rip from the rim as I pushed .
7 This is beginning to happen through the exhortation as well as education received from Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace .
8 She began to move through the house as she had done before , opening doors , now trying to force doors which would not open .
9 Since the machine began to move towards the water as soon as they were inside , changing in its damp , smelly and retracted confines was none too easy , despite the lure of their newly acquired bathing costumes .
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