Example sentences of "had begin [to-vb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The commission had begun to draw up an inventory of assets .
2 The rising tide had begun to fill up the channel .
3 Already Quentin had begun to tidy up the garden for the Easter Fete .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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