Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] begin [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grainne listened , absorbed and serious , and in her mind she began to see the old Ireland , the Ireland of the lost enchantments , very clearly . |
| 2 | Probably in all innocence they began to use the word Baal to describe the Lord God . |
| 3 | Scowling with concentration he began to load the six chambers of his Colt Patent Repeating Pistol with the lead which dragged down one pocket of his scarecrow 's morning coat . |
| 4 | The European Court of Justice has , however , built up some case law which begins to narrow the definition of what is meant by ‘ in the public service ’ . |
| 5 | And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there . |
| 6 | If the title 's already registered , then as either seller or buyer you begin to reap the benefits of the system . |
| 7 | They sure looked smart , he thought , and from that moment he began to cultivate the straight , dignified bearing which was to be his hallmark in later life ; only occasionally did he forget and relapse into his old North American droop . |
| 8 | After a while she began to enjoy the pure clear voices of the Sisters . |
| 9 | After a while she began to get the message , but it required a lot of patience . |
| 10 | The next day they began to build the nest in the apple tree . |
| 11 | There was one flaw in the logical perfection of the balance of terror which began to trouble the public mind . |
| 12 | Thus was introduced the time when the Created God ceased to be produced solely from all that was good in the struggle for existence , and entered the period , still going on , when mankind itself began to influence the nature of that God . |
| 13 | Above the slab we began to penetrate the gorge . |
| 14 | About three kilometres before he reached Fontanellato each morning he began to sound the whistle on the engine to warn us that he would soon be arriving . |
| 15 | At church we began to rehearse the Christmas music , and get ready to cheer the people , if we could . |
| 16 | By the time Charlie 's eyes had become accustomed to the darkness he began to study the moon and , more importantly , the movement of the clouds . |
| 17 | By the time everyone began to arrive the church looked wonderful . |
| 18 | I was kidding myself for such a long time I began to ignore the risks . |
| 19 | For the first time I began to recognize the power of the forces that Laura was summoning to her need . |
| 20 | This indignant representative of the impoverished upper classes sought explanations in terms of patriotism , the indifference of the working class and the upward and downward extension of the middle class which began to smudge the divide between traditional class divisions . |
| 21 | Two days before the President 's visit they began to dress the mast like a Christmas tree . |
| 22 | Every time he began to move the driver jerked the car a little further towards him . |