Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows .
2 At once the crabber began to bounce about on the waves , as though the Angharad was dancing a jig over the water in her pleasure at taking a trip .
3 I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story .
4 It was at about this time that Charles acquired a tutor and through him began to look out on the world through a learned man 's eyes .
5 The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration .
6 The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade .
7 The night before Nenna and her two daughters were due to leave England , storm weather began to blow up on the Reach .
8 He could see the River Thames below with the new high-rise housing blocks already beginning to show up on the skyline .
9 The authorities in Hainan in southern China have begun to crack down on the hunting , selling and buying of protected animals in the province .
10 SINCE artworks began to flood out of China in the early 1980s — mostly smuggled by sea to Macao or Hong Kong — extraordinary rarities , hitherto unknown in the West , have begun to turn up on the market .
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