Example sentences of "[vb past] begin [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could remember the first time that he 'd stepped outside into country darkness and closed the door behind him ; it was as if he 'd been struck blind with the click of the latch , and he 'd begun to panic at his inability even to tell which way was up . |
| 2 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 3 | I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night . |
| 4 | He had begun to tremble at the very thought . |
| 5 | Again in 1960 , the EEC had begun to look at the problem of discrimination in transport , and in 1961 a Monetary Committee was established , as well as one charged with examining trade cycle policy . |
| 6 | Worse , Mr. Mounce had begun to look at him oddly . |
| 7 | Once we had begun to look at particular steps in the biochemical cascade in more detail , however , I became persuaded that reasonably specific inhibitors might help cast light on relevant mechanisms . |
| 8 | Such dramatic attempts at direct action were not the only ways in which people had begun to protest at the development of nuclear power . |