Example sentences of "[noun sg] begin [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The billhook had sliced into his naked thigh and , turning , she saw the great curve of red blood begin to bubble in the air , saw him slowly sink like a wounded animal , his hands plucking the air . |
| 2 | Dust from the tailings pond began to blow over the countryside again in 1985 , starting on 10 February , a Sunday . |
| 3 | The hairs on the back of his neck began to rise with the blast of primitive hatred which had rushed through the air . |
| 4 | They were running through thickly forested country , and tension began to mount in the car . |
| 5 | In his Sonnets Shakespeare achieved the rather remarkable feat of turning to new and individual ends a genre that had flourished throughout Europe for several centuries and was in effect beginning to die at the time when he wrote , in the mid 1590s . |
| 6 | Provincial market towns , in 1922 as throughout the Soviet period , collected the first rural tide of those looking for work — peasant vagrants , demobilized soldiers , and in the case of the Smolensk area , flax-workers out of a job as their industry began to decline after the boom of the war years . |
| 7 | Soft light beginning to shimmer on the still water . |
| 8 | The whole of the prom was in shadow now and a chill , blustery wind began to riffle through the litter in the gutters . |
| 9 | As the wind began to rise outside the palm house , Halema told the story of Aisha 's deafness . |
| 10 | So I nodded and smiled and agreed , while part of my mind began to toy with the question of whether Balbazian steel was as impregnable as its well-advertised reputation insisted . |
| 11 | The Tory vote began to seem like the Cheshire Cat that Alice came across in her travels . |
| 12 | And she still remembered how , as the car began to climb into the lake land hills , she had seen her first mountain — a sharp blue crag that , outlined against the sky , had made her sit up and stare . |
| 13 | since the car began to roll off the line . |
| 14 | ‘ A reluctant light began to spread over the eastern sky . |
| 15 | But then a peculiar light began to creep down the steps , mostly blocked by Adam , but searching , sharp , pricking Ruth like needles . |
| 16 | Each gentle breath was exquisitely hushed in these still hours as the light began to glimmer over the arch of heaven , ‘ mid the cloud-wreaths , over the mountains , and on the wide expanse of ocean — ahead , astern , and on either side of us , as we sped towards Lewis . |
| 17 | Towards the end , as the stage show of The King And I moved triumphantly from city to city , Rock began to feel like the boy who could see the emperor had no clothes . |
| 18 | From then on , Matilda was a welcome visitor to The Red House every single evening after school , and a very close friendship began to develop between the teacher and the small child . |
| 19 | They turned , staying in the centre of Cheapside as the melting snow began to slide from the sloping tiled roofs . |
| 20 | He stopped and the snow began to drift over the toes of his boots . |
| 21 | As he spoke a dark pool of blood began to gather under the luxuriant mane of Harriet 's auburn hair which had escaped from the loosened snood and spread slowly over the ground . |
| 22 | Then blood began to splatter on the glass from Pearce 's open mouth . |
| 23 | Guido was laughing , as the little boat began to scud across the waves again . |
| 24 | In November 1902 , a great spine or pillar of solidified lava began to rise above the crater of the Etang Sec , forced upwards by the pressure of the magma below . |
| 25 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |
| 26 | As you know , blood begins to settle in the lowest part of the body as soon as the heart stops pumping it around . |
| 27 | At the second attempt she made the connection and heard the telephone begin to ring at the other end . |
| 28 | ( Echoes of Evelyn Waugh 's Ishmaelite consul-general begin to flutter in the ear : ‘ As that great Negro , Karl Marx , has so nobly written … ‘ ) |
| 29 | But the 1970s also saw another issue begin to emerge on the agenda of the expanding British nuclear industry . |
| 30 | His poetry began to appear in the Marlburian in 1912 , influenced by John Masefield [ q.v. ] and by the Wiltshire downs , with their irresistible evocation of the past . |