Example sentences of "[noun] began [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tiny weeny hint of a plan began to tinkle at the back of my brain like a triangle at the back of an orchestra . |
| 2 | The action in London had an immediate effect elsewhere as crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 3 | The action taken in London had an immediate affect elsewhere as ambulance crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 4 | The action taken in London had an immediate affect elsewhere as ambulance crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 5 | How it was defended by those at the core of the community and how cracks began to appear at the periphery gives Hubauer the material to explore the hypothesis that extrinsic influences are likely to affect allegiances when scientists experience rival theories as incommensurable paradigms . |
| 6 | His fingers began to scrabble at the coarse edge of the steel plate . |
| 7 | News of the victory spread as the clans began to muster at the appointed time at Glenfinnan , which , with the mountains rising all around the tranquil waters of the loch , provided an intensely dramatic setting for the formal beginning of the campaign . |
| 8 | A few rich families began to emerge at the top of such societies and the numbers of poor cottagers grew significantly , but the old-established middling families long remained the backbone of many a rural community . |
| 9 | And when she thought it was about to finish , the whip began to flick at the pegs . |
| 10 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 11 | Around noon , people began to congregate at the Cross Tree on the green , where all the village children were the recipients of the sausage rolls , cakes and other goodies that had been collected . |
| 12 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 13 | The little man began to kick at the tentacle in fury . |
| 14 | My brain began to overheat at the sheer scale of the disaster that had just overtaken me . |
| 15 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 16 | It was thus a new phenomenon when , during the winter and early spring of 1976 , outspoken resolutions on law and order began to arrive at the Presbyterian central office in Belfast from congregations and presbyteries across the country . |
| 17 | Then the princess 's soldiers began to batter at the doors of the wooden fortress with their axes . |
| 18 | The squabbling became more bitter , and the adults began to snap at the children . |
| 19 | Very slowly an idea began to form at the back of his mind . |
| 20 | A small pulse began to hammer at the base of Lindsey 's throat as she rose to her feet to pour more coffee . |
| 21 | In the ACCs , the money supply began to accelerate at the beginning of 1970 . |
| 22 | Concern about the employment effects of new technology began to re-emerge at the end of the 1970s . |