Example sentences of "[vb past] begin [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His legs had buckled and knocked , a comic effect , and he 'd gone down too soon for his partner to see the ugly roundel that had begun to form on the white tennis shirt . |
| 2 | More of his allies had begun to arrive on the scene . |
| 3 | Argument when the urban sprawl of Belfast had begun to encroach on the ‘ plain of the lambs ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ People had begun to look on the Lithuanian party as the servile agent , even the secret agent , of the Soviet Communist Party . ’ |
| 5 | The previous autumn , the muggy monsoon heat had begun to diminish on the very day following the festival of Dusshera . |
| 6 | A bank of purple neons had begun to flash on the dashboard . |
| 7 | She had begun to pull on the long suede gloves which she had earlier stripped from her beautiful hands . |
| 8 | Owen 's mind had begun to work on the same lines . |