Example sentences of "[adv] begun [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Excavations in its interior demonstrated extensive occupation , which had apparently begun to decline in the AD 70s , perhaps in the wake of increasing migration towards a more convenient centre on the road network . |
| 2 | Peter had only just begun to go through the night without demanding a feed . |
| 3 | The surface had just begun to shimmer in the light when Mrs Rosalia Alderley came out through the French windows of the ballroom and stopped , staring in thunderstruck amazement . |
| 4 | A feminist perspective on , and analysis of , architecture and planning has only just begun to emerge over the last decade . |
| 5 | She had just begun to worry about the honeymoon , finding an image of Hywel in Benidorm particularly elusive , when she was summoned by the doctor . |
| 6 | ‘ Many of our recent troubles in retaining and maintaining public confidence might have been less severe and more easily solved if we had not begun to depart from the traditional relationships between ranks , ’ he added . |
| 7 | But it was the scientist alone who could make sense of the discoveries , and late eighteenth-century naturalists had already begun to puzzle over the bones of gigantic elephant-like creatures found both in America and in Europe . |
| 8 | House prices have already begun to fall across the country with the most recent statistics showing the Midlands and the North joining London and the South-east . |
| 9 | In the United States , prompted by new legal rights to challenge developments on environmental grounds , critics of nuclear power had already begun to object to the licensing of new reactors . |
| 10 | Scotland had its own Royal Commission established in the same year ; in Wales consultations had already begun leading to the appointment of a working party ( Wood 1976 : 119 ; Alexander 1928b:29 ) ; and Northern Ireland was still governed in these matters from Stormont . |
| 11 | It 's thought a fault in an electric fire set light to the downstairts bedroom — when the twins father Mark Bettinson smelt smoke flames had already begun to creep towards the twins cots . |
| 12 | He had already begun contributing to the Gardeners ' Chronicle . |
| 13 | Signs of the tenacious Selina ambition had already begun to show at the age of 13 when she secured her first job on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 14 | Ethologists have not yet begun to grasp at the crucial characteristic of human beings that tends to invalidate all but the most cautious inferences from other animals to Man . |