Example sentences of "[was/were] begin [to-vb] [adv prt] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doubts were beginning to mount up alarmingly . |
| 2 | The after-effects of a severe bout of glandular fever were beginning to linger on far too long for Virginia 's liking . |
| 3 | The numbness in his shoulder was beginning to wear off now and he was aware of a sticky warmth on his back , hips and legs , and that the needling pain in his upper back was intensifying . |
| 4 | By 1907 however , trade was beginning to fall off again for the Edinburgh printing offices . |
| 5 | It was beginning to go out again , calmly withdrawing , as though trained . |
| 6 | No unattached man , should he by some miracle present himself at Four Winds , would want to have anything to do with a dejected and increasingly agoraphobic young mother , still in her teens , and a baby whose fretfulness was beginning to get on even Harriet 's nerves . |