Example sentences of "[noun pl] begin [verb] to the " in BNC.

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1 When she was so cold that her bare feet began to stick to the linoleum , she went back to bed and tried to stay awake .
2 AFTER Japanese investment poured into South-East Asia in the late 1980s , observers began to refer to the area as a ‘ yen block ’ .
3 The crowd of playgoers began to hurry to the doors , and I ran round to open them .
4 It aroused fury among the educated classes in Teheran , and it was never ratified ny the Majles , It was at this time that the same Iranian nationalists began to look to the United States for support against British exploitation .
5 But when the long hard Chinese winter was nearly over , the villagers began to come to the house of Dai Huang .
6 Immediately after The Builder published its report about Hall 's conclave on 30th August , 1856 , architects began to write to the Office of Works asking for details .
7 Hardly had the rains stopped when the spectators began to return to the slope above the melon beds , coming in greater numbers than ever before .
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