Example sentences of "began [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did n't make Abisko , chickening out as the weather worsened and the forecasts began to sound even more dire . |
| 2 | It began to sound as though G. F. Westerby was going to prove a disappointment . |
| 3 | Remarkably , its arguments began to sound like those of the Central Electricity Generating Board , as it sought to cast doubt on the very existence of an acid rain problem . |
| 4 | This proved to be one of the sources of its downfall : there came a point when failure to come up with the goods , rationalised by ‘ the need for more research ’ , began to sound a little hollow and begged the asking of more fundamental questions . |
| 5 | About three kilometres before he reached Fontanellato each morning he began to sound the whistle on the engine to warn us that he would soon be arriving . |
| 6 | It began to sound more serious than she had realised . |
| 7 | Yet on returning to the stage for the first encore , after the first set which had lasted only 35 minutes , they all actually began to sound like a live band and you momentarily forgot about the keyboard player triggering off the backing vocals , and the percussionists aided by drum sequencers . |
| 8 | Osman began to sound hopeful . |
| 9 | He swore savagely , then , as the bleep he was carrying began to sound . |
| 10 | Her gaze flickered to David , then , as Jennifer looked up at David and warning bells began to sound in Rachel 's head , Belinda said , ‘ David had a girlfriend called Jennifer , did n't you , David ? ’ then , turning back to Jennifer , she added , ‘ But Rachel 's his girlfriend now . ’ |
| 11 | From then on , as though that had conjured up a bleak picture of him never having a life with his love , he began to sound quite despairing . |
| 12 | What was the trouble today ? she wondered , as impatient horn blasts began to sound . |
| 13 | I 'd just returned to Mistress Philippa 's when the bell began to sound . ’ |
| 14 | Here he began to crystallise the wisdom of some of his best poetry , writing and songs ; for it was here that he was reborn , where he truly began to find himself ; where , not least , the music of Greece entered his soul , evoking earlier memories and melodies , combining with them to suggest a new style , a new mystique . |
| 15 | Once Paul 's cult began to crystallise as a religion in itself , rather than a form of Judaism , it dictated certain priorities which had not obtained in Jesus 's lifetime and which Jesus himself would unquestionably have deplored . |
| 16 | The Crnojević dynasty lasted for less than a century , but during this period the foundations of a separate Montenegrin nation , with its own forms of government and its own culture , began to crystallise . |
| 17 | The founder of the theory of scales which is commonly used as the basis for social measurement is the psychologist S.S. Stevens , whose ideas began to crystallise in the 1940s in response to a challenge issued , in 1932 , by physicists and psychologists of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to " assess the possibility of " " quantitative estimates of sensory events " " . |
| 18 | The larks had not been up long when the first cars began filtering into the parks . |
| 19 | Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time . |
| 20 | Then in November last year , soon after Wendy had given birth to Bryony , her second daughter , everything began to go wrong . |
| 21 | It is surprising how little the poet 's father shared in these games and sports , which could have helped form a natural bridge of intimacy with his six sons as they began to go their several ways . |
| 22 | Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong . |
| 23 | Malcolm disposed of Haynes with a very fast , dipping full toss , and then after Greenidge and Richardson seemed to be settling down , wickets began to go . |
| 24 | On one occasion , it began to go up when she wanted to go down ; another time , it refused to open and kept her prisoner for half an hour . |
| 25 | Very slowly , she began to go down the stairs , step by step , wincing every time one creaked and glancing over her shoulder every ten seconds or so . |
| 26 | Soon the carvers were busy and the mound of teacakes began to go down , but not everyone was pleased with what they were given . |
| 27 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 28 | Penny left home at 15 and married at 18 , having a baby quickly — and after what she says was a fairly happy period of her life , she began to go downhill fast . |
| 29 | Members began to go out into the country on day trips , and the first cricket match between two deaf clubs in the country , which later led to the formation of inter-institute sports activities of billiards , darts , and other sports , took place on 23rd July 1892 at Manchester between Manchester Deaf and Dumb Institute and the Bolton and Bury Institutes . |
| 30 | Eventually a rumour began to go around that I was having an affair with one of my friends ' husband . |