Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chronicle A ( s.a. 685 ) says that Caedwalla began to contend for the kingship in 685 , but it was not until 686 that he established himself as king over the western Saxons . |
| 2 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |
| 3 | And he began to worry about the body in the garden . |
| 4 | His poetry began to appear in the Marlburian in 1912 , influenced by John Masefield [ q.v. ] and by the Wiltshire downs , with their irresistible evocation of the past . |
| 5 | Nikolai Pomialovskii 's fictional Seminary Sketches , which began to appear in The Contemporary in mid-1862 , put part of the case for church reform to a wider public . |
| 6 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 7 | Here I alighted and began to walk into the wood in search of something . |
| 8 | He began to walk towards the Monument in the glare of the headlights , then he sat down at the stone table and beckoned . |
| 9 | Although their favourite dog is possibly the Bouvier des Flandres , real interest began to grow in the Rottweiler in the 1960s . |
| 10 | The little man began to kick at the tentacle in fury . |
| 11 | Although the first drops of water only officially began to trickle into the basin in 1975 , Rutland Water is already famous for its wildfowl numbers . |
| 12 | The fortunes of the human capital theory began to decline as the growth in the economies of the advanced industrial societies began to slow down or stagnate in the mid-1970s . |
| 13 | He pulled on his shoes , rose and began to jog along the road in the direction the car had taken . |
| 14 | In the next few days Creggan began to learn about the Zoo in which he was now imprisoned . |
| 15 | Mr Thabane began to push past the throng in the entranceway . |
| 16 | There were lesbian nuances I did n't much like ; perhaps because I was beginning to take against the facet in Conchis 's polyhedral character that obviously enjoyed ‘ curious ’ objects and literature . |
| 17 | That figural designs began to occur in the west in any numbers ( i.e. not counting the very early example from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 ) in approximately the same period as a further development of figural design is apparent in the southeast , is an interesting possibility : this may also have been contemporary with the first appearance of fully centralised designs . |
| 18 | The whole of the prom was in shadow now and a chill , blustery wind began to riffle through the litter in the gutters . |
| 19 | When , immediately afterwards , he jumped up and began to rush round the room in a strange wild dance , we all stared at him in great surprise . |
| 20 | The results of the banks ' self-imposed credit rationing , and of the mounting creditor distress , are beginning to show in the leap in outstanding commercial paper issued by non-financial companies . |
| 21 | Already early on this Saturday morning he and his pupils were beginning to prepare for the banquet in the Imperial kitchens . |
| 22 | She watched the swallows that had begun to fly over the hill in the last of the light ; they skimmed close , almost round her feet . |