Example sentences of "[pron] [be] begin [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Every purse has its limits , ’ he wrote , ‘ and I am beginning to see the bottom of my own . ’ |
| 2 | I am in my 30s and married , but I am beginning to think the young men are not always to blame . |
| 3 | I am beginning to count the days since the landing and to reflect on all that has happened . |
| 4 | Hard to explain this , but I think I 'm beginning to like the wretched thing . ’ |
| 5 | I 'm beginning to think the fans will soon see me as a bit of a jinx . |
| 6 | I 'm beginning to think the only answer is to ban them altogether . |
| 7 | Er I , I 'm beginning to find the attitude of the District Council on this not , not comprehendible . |
| 8 | I felt I was beginning to lose the battle , and the diary for the remainder of the term is full of expressions of hatred for the school , interspersed with the repeated and heartfelt question , ‘ Why ca n't they leave me alone ? ’ |
| 9 | I was beginning to enjoy the game . |
| 10 | We talked about having some fun with cars at a time when I was beginning to think the two were no longer synonymous . |
| 11 | I was beginning to think the bell was broken . ’ |
| 12 | Evidence of the radical shifts which were beginning to disrupt the vertical stripe format of her paintings emerged in the selection of works Riley made in 1989 as part of the National Gallery 's series , The Artist 's Eye . |
| 13 | Indeed , for many of the unskilled or sweated trades the sort of organisations which were beginning to make the strength of labour movements were quite impracticable . |
| 14 | But the plan had another side to it — it was a vital factor in the faction fighting which was beginning to engulf the paper . |
| 15 | Mr Johnston said it would be foolish to anticipate better advertising volumes for the provincial press in general , at least until the latter part of 1993 , but the group 's present lower cost base should certainly benefit profits if Britain was eventually to see the type of modest recovery which was beginning to boost the US newspaper industry . |
| 16 | Sometimes it can be slightly embarrassing to be successful at something , and if you are beginning to turn the occasional head now that you are slimmer you may come in for some negative comments from your rivals . |
| 17 | If you can hold your feelings and examine them , force yourself to hear the voice and ask why it produces the response that it does , you are beginning to get the better of it , to break the fearful silence that surrounds it and , incidentally , to add another voice to your writing repertoire . |
| 18 | You 're beginning to see the possibilities . |
| 19 | You 're beginning to get the idea , William . ’ |
| 20 | His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 21 | She 's beginning to foul the air a little , she 's that dead . |
| 22 | She is beginning to think the word ‘ holiday ’ is an exotic Greek meal . |
| 23 | Instead of turning brick-red or prawn-cocktail-pink , as she had feared , she is turning a pleasant beige , a natural beige , she is beginning to look the same colour that people look in television advertisements . |
| 24 | The reader who is beginning to doubt the author 's sanity should note that there is something needing proof here . |
| 25 | She was beginning to tackle the problem in her quietly determined way , by suggesting a movie or a shopping trip to one or two of the quieter girls in the nurses ' home , and by spending more time chatting with her patients instead of being simply a sympathetic presence . |
| 26 | But subconsciously her mind was at work , and by the time she had garaged the car she was beginning to comprehend the appalling enormity of her mistake . |
| 27 | Isabel had to admit he was not messenger material , but she was beginning to question the wisdom of her panicked flight from the castle . |
| 28 | But it had n't , not completely , and now she was beginning to have the feeling that all of the best chances had been narrowly missed and the whole thing was now starting to come apart again . |
| 29 | She was beginning to experience the soloist 's panic of realizing that the success of the show rested on her shoulders . |
| 30 | She said she thought she was beginning to get the hang of it . |