Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] up [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I saw him as fleeing the violent campus situation in America for the peaceful English countryside on a conscious level , while on an unconscious level he would begin to set up the conflict in the small town he went to . |
| 2 | Over time , more complex social routines may be established as adult and infant begin to build up a set of expectancies or joint understandings regarding the meanings of particular behaviours . |
| 3 | When they stand at the watchnight service and hear those self-same carols they will galvanise into action and begin to take up the offering among the congregation and go off to ring it up on the cash register . |
| 4 | And as the ship freed herself from the mule-lines and her screw began to chum up a wake of umber , sludgy water , and she picked up speed towards the marker buoys and the farewell beacon on Flamenco Island , I was sure I could see the seamen still , pointing their cameras back — now with long lenses all — towards the statue of Balboa which stands on the Panama City seafront , with the great man gazing out at the Ocean into which the Poles were now , at long last , sailing . |
| 5 | In the end I thought it was a good job that I 'd cut her dead because I began to pick up the gossip about her and found out that she 'd left home when she did because she was pregnant and had had a baby . |
| 6 | Stiffly , reluctantly , she rose to her feet and began to sweep up the litter of broken china . |
| 7 | While at Oxford he began to draw up a catalogue of the fifteenth-century books in the Bodleian Library . |
| 8 | In fact , the CEGB only began to build up a fund for decommissioning in 1976 . |
| 9 | She looked back briefly at the house behind her , low and grey with its long eighteenth-century windows and its sheltering clumps of trees , then she picked up her skirts and began to run up the slope towards the sea . |
| 10 | From this remark , added to his earlier defence of his right to seclusion , Robbie was beginning to build up a picture of this man . |
| 11 | Piecemeal , we are beginning to build up a number of different techniques of analysis which will provide an answer to our initial problem : what is it that gives stretches of language in use their meaning and their unity ? |
| 12 | Just then a man , attracted by all the noise and commotion , came out of the jungle and began to climb up the mountainside towards Cassowary . |
| 13 | Before she 'd begun to swing up a knee into his groin he jerked her towards him . |
| 14 | The commission had begun to draw up an inventory of assets . |
| 15 | Already Quentin had begun to tidy up the garden for the Easter Fete . |
| 16 | But once one lineage had begun to build up a team of genes for dealing with meat rather than grass , the process was self-reinforcing . |
| 17 | And once the other lineage had begun to build up a team of genes for dealing with grass rather than meat , that process was self-reinforcing in the other direction . |
| 18 | The remainder of the chapter begins to open up the question of what impact new technology is having on whatever jobs may remain . |
| 19 | The next writer , Erica De'Ath , begins to open up the field in which child care needs arise , families and children , and the many changing patterns of family life which characterize the latter half of the twentieth century . |
| 20 | Up till now you always had to bid er , for issues arising from changes of growth in the population , and that particularly begins to pick up the issue about the aging population in the county , so if I can welcome that . |
| 21 | With the aid of the transcript of radio communications , which includes time injections that can enable every word spoken to be timed within one fifth of a second , the investigator begins to build up the history of the flight . |