Example sentences of "[verb] begin [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strain under which Airdrie are operating began to tell in the second half when Falkirk attempted to mount a fightback . |
| 2 | Polisario announced that its forces had begun to relocate in the assembly areas allocated to them for the period of the ceasefire . |
| 3 | His nose had begun to shine in the heat , but his eyes were wide open and calculating . |
| 4 | Stefan had begun haemorrhaging in the night . |
| 5 | His articles on ‘ Nature ’ topics , too , had begun to appear in the various journals where Noble had influence , New Age , the Speaker , and the Globe . |
| 6 | Yet even Renan 's treatment was to be regarded as saccharine and uncritically sentimental by the generation of Modernists who had begun to appear in the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | The school had begun to fail in the forties and fifties and the number of pupils declined to fifteen , to ten , to three . |
| 8 | Blackcaps have begun wintering in the British Isles , instead of Spain , a change in migratory behaviour that scientists suggest is linked to global warming . |