Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] begin [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I had begun to reap the benefits from my new system , I decided to enlarge on it and make it work even harder for me . |
| 2 | I had begun to believe the Hall quite deserted . ’ |
| 3 | Hazlitt has not been short of biographers , but before reading Jones I never felt I had begun to know the man , or formed any satisfying conception of his obviously contradictory nature . |
| 4 | Having seen taxis north of Adrar , and then a couple of days ago , a convoy which had not so much as a compass , I had begun to think the desert not so terrible after all . |
| 5 | They were tantalizingly obscure — no sooner did you think you 'd begun to grasp the gist when it slipped through your fingers . |
| 6 | Her mother had thought she would fail and had pinned all her hopes on Dana , who 'd begun to attract the attention of the Press . |
| 7 | In any event , she had begun to like the idea of a secret . |
| 8 | She had begun to like the gardens , and the robin , and Martha and Dickon and their mother . |
| 9 | And tea , tea , tea with everything , just when she had begun to appreciate the sophistication of coffee . |
| 10 | There was something obscurely over-energized about her , quite unlike his old succulently lazy wife , and she had begun to clean the house as if it were a sin of the flesh . |
| 11 | She had begun to climb the bank when the four-wheel drive suddenly appeared on the rim above , bumped down and drew to a halt alongside . |
| 12 | That was when she had begun to recognize the evil . |
| 13 | This was especially noticeable amongst younger Conservatives in the Commons , and amongst the life peers who had begun to join the Upper House in increasing numbers since the Life Peerages Act in 1958 . |
| 14 | The party newspaper , Neues Deutschland , in an outspoken editorial yesterday , conceded that Communist Party members were among those who had begun to question the party 's leading role . |
| 15 | Then , just as we had begun to enjoy the blissful peace and calm of spring , the wedding season reached its climax . |
| 16 | By 1988 we had begun to adopt the double stapling technique for ileoanal anastomosis ( anal transection with a transverse linear stapler : RL30 ( Ethicon ) and the end to end circular stapler with detachable anvil : CEEA ( Autosuture ) ) , incorporating a stapling technique ( linear staple cutter PLC 75 ( Ehicon ) ) for pouch construction . |
| 17 | After that they had begun to encounter the behavioural problems which had been occurring in Reykjavik and which are so depressingly familiar to us all . |
| 18 | In the USA , at the beginning of the century , the universities were also closer to seminaries , but by the 1870s they had begun to adopt the German model too , following the lead given by the new Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore , the first to emphasize research in alliance with teaching . |
| 19 | It had begun to ascend the stairs … and then the weariness had overcome it . |
| 20 | For just as he had begun to survey the picture from a wholly different angle , just as he thought he espied a gap in the clouds that hitherto had masked the shafts of sunlight the switchboard-operator dashed any hope of such a breakthrough with the simple statement that she 'd known Theodore Kemp very well indeed . |
| 21 | He spent his nights with Taheb , but these days he had begun to notice the glances the servants gave him , and made excuses when she wanted him to join her dinner guests . |
| 22 | He had begun to dry the glasses . |
| 23 | It is not clear whether Poole 's motives were merely altruistic , or whether , as seems more likely , he had begun to question the wisdom of having an emotionally dependent and notoriously radical young poet as his neighbour . |