Example sentences of "[pers pn] begin [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I begin to get some idea of what the Roman games must 've been like . ’ |
| 2 | At around this time I began to give private lessons in Latin and mathematics to a few boys who were in their first and second years of school in Parma or who had to take an entrance examination . |
| 3 | I began to take daily photographs just to see , at the end of the month , how much had moved without one noticing . |
| 4 | I began to see one way out of our dilemma . |
| 5 | I began to see another face in the posters . |
| 6 | Satisfied , I began to notice other birds , the all-the-year-round residents . |
| 7 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 8 | After I began to earn more money than he did . |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me about your past , ’ I began to urge other women , and they to urge me . |
| 10 | ‘ Tell me , ’ I began to urge other women , ‘ what might be ’ , and they to urge me . |
| 11 | ‘ More and more , as years went by , I began to frequent Irish singing pubs , until I was totally immersed in the music . |
| 12 | Whether the ground actually became firmer or whether I was spurred on by fear I do not know , but I began to make better progress . |
| 13 | Not long after moving house just recently I began to experience intermittent malfunctions with my home computer . |
| 14 | But gradually I began to write occasional pieces for newspapers . |
| 15 | I began to get cold feet , but these other two guys were totally positive and they were absolutely right . |
| 16 | I began to worry many years ago when I heard a young artist say at a Whitechapel Art Gallery discussion , ‘ I 'm in the painting business , not the explanation business ’ . |
| 17 | Consequently , I began to develop different sorts of friendships , no longer based on silliness or naughtiness , but on joint and genuine attempts at co-operation and to understand not only the syllabus but ourselves and life in general . |
| 18 | At this point I began to have serious doubts about this man 's hold on reality . |
| 19 | There had still been nothing of that kind from John 's kidnappers and for the first time I began to have serious doubts about whether he was alive ; I began to feel less sure of it deep inside , where it mattered . |
| 20 | The awful thing was that , as I said it , I began to have serious doubts about it . |
| 21 | I began to have strange dreams . |
| 22 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 23 | And so I began to have erotic daydreams . |
| 24 | Where once you were making a conscious effort to cast long and accurately and were aware of the amount of punch you needed to put into the strike , you will find that with experience you begin to do these things quite naturally . |
| 25 | All I 'm asking is that you begin to take these methods seriously and consider them alongside your own quantitative skills . |
| 26 | So you begin to take more cocaine , and quite soon you need more and more cocaine to unlock the gates of heaven , and once you reach heaven you do n't want to leave it and so you take still more cocaine , but by then it is n't working . ’ |
| 27 | When you use the tractor you begin to notice other things — the electronics , the automatic control of 4WD and diff-locks , the electronic linkage , the performance monitor , but most of all the electronic throttle . |
| 28 | They 're the sort of thing that you 'll find used as backing music for the test card — and when you hear them you begin to have some sympathy for those who refuse to pay for a TV licence . |
| 29 | Today is the finale of a downward spiral of setbacks and disappointments as you begin to find new ways forward . |
| 30 | Right , and are you beginning to say that production is coming to be a more important criteria now ? |