Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they began [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So that they began to hint that I could n't be so very friendly if I was afraid to take them round to meet him . |
| 2 | As the tide rose , the wind shredded the clouds above them and pushed a mighty swell across the water , so that they began to roll as they had once rolled at sea . |
| 3 | Some of the secondary girls considered such goings on beneath their dignity but it was n't long before they began to take an interest and help out in the " Ox-farm " . |
| 4 | It was not long before they began to complain . |
| 5 | Before too long heterosexual women had in fact taken over and they began to encourage men into the organization and to instigate the mixing of boys and girls into provision previously available to young women on their own ( but preserving the boys ' clubs ) . |
| 6 | The big one dropped just as they began to relax . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , just as they began to beat their hasty retreat , the bell for the start of school rang . |
| 8 | Our archers caught the bastards just as they began to climb the scaling ladders , whilst men-at-arms , using the long forked poles lying on the parapet walk , shoved them out of the way . |
| 9 | As soon as they began to talk , you realised that this was not a diffuse collection of misfits , suitable cases for treatment or counselling . |
| 10 | As soon as they began to walk along the shops Owen was very glad that she had come . |
| 11 | As the sky lightened even more and they began to make out their surroundings more clearly , Fenella and Caspar both found themselves looking out for the signs that Floy had hoped to leave . |
| 12 | Through the doors even as they began to close . |
| 13 | For the most part they contented themselves with the material evidence available in the form of bones and artefacts , yet even when they began to observe living animals good behavioural description did not expose the factors that transformed the infrahuman primate society into a human one . |
| 14 | It goes on to say and it came about that in thy journeying eastward they eventually discovered a valid plain and a land of Shinar and they took up growing there and they began to say each one to the other come on let us make bricks and bake and bake with a burning process , so bricks served as stone for them and |