Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] begin [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that by now you can begin to appreciate the delicacy of discrimination and the moral fervour which I have sought to bring to my work and that you will hold these qualities in your mind when the grossness , vulgarity and immorality of gossip or criticism begins to corrode the lucid purity of my text . |
| 2 | If such secret missives were sealed personally by him it might be only a matter of time before Wolsey 's enemies at court and parliament began to point the accusing finger in his direction . |
| 3 | Joe was already out of the kitchen and half-way across the yard and Bella began to put the dishes together . |
| 4 | The main thrust of this book is , naturally , concentrated on the period around 1900 when attitudes within the reserved , even isolationist Murano were gradually relaxed , and from around 1910 , when Muranese glassmakers and designers began to re-join the international scene . |
| 5 | Grainne arched her back like a cat , and Fergus began to peel the thin robe from her shoulders , kissing her bare skin , feeling her response , feeling the swing of her hair against his shoulders and chest , and exulting in it , for there is something so intimate and so wholly precious about the feel of a loved one 's hair against your skin … |
| 6 | Malekith befriends the Dwarf King Snorri Whitebeard and together the armies of Dwarfs and Elves begin to drive the remnants of Chaos from the lands . |
| 7 | When Sussex gentlemen and townsmen began to question the practices of the church , they found new allies in the Flemings and Frenchmen who fled for asylum in the 1540s from persecution by Catholic monarchs abroad . |
| 8 | Finns began to express an interest in Karelia , acquired by the USSR following the Winter War ; and the Estonians and Latvians began to query the status of their boundaries with Russia . |
| 9 | Then , using the boards as if they were giant razor blades , he and Harry began to shave the black foam of insects off Lucy 's skin . |
| 10 | As the fire lights the JPT rises and a hum of gradually increasing pitch and volume begins to pervade the area . |
| 11 | Well the traveller grinned And Billy beginned To tell the most marvellous tales Of earthquakes and crimes And fabulous times And whole families swallowed by whales . |
| 12 | In the fumoirs , glossy mouths breathed chic and gossip , and success began to stalk the stalls . |
| 13 | Shipping is advised to keep well clear , and masters begin to make the complicated storm-avoidance manoeuvres well known to those familiar with these waters in this summer season . |
| 14 | Performances improved noticeably and gates began to top the 20,000 mark . |
| 15 | They no longer had to wait for the elusive Jennie to finish making a steak and kidney pudding before sanctioning an important business decision , but they had taken over in lean times and Doris began to find the strain intolerable . |