Example sentences of "began [to-vb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | After spending a day settling in to their hotel rooms and enjoying a display by the Orange County Police Department , the children began to bubble over with excitement at the thought of visiting Disney 's Magic Kingdom . |
| 2 | It was barely three months after her arrival in the village when her life began to pitch over from an even keel , and it remained from then onwards at a pitched-over angle . |
| 3 | Nor did it help that the morning , which had started so bright , began to cloud over . |
| 4 | However we , the next thing we knew was the flying bombs began to come over . |
| 5 | Rohmer turned away from Cardiff and began to walk over to them . |
| 6 | Just then the scene began to mist over . |
| 7 | But then , one by one , they began to topple over like skittles , and in no time the green , shot-scarred turf was littered with unconscious figures . |
| 8 | ‘ I felt pretty much the same , ’ she explained as his lips began to run over her forehead . |
| 9 | It was this second scheme that Franco was inclined to favour and whose realization he began to turn over in his mind in the autumn of 1936 . |
| 10 | She straightened her back and a small smile began to spread over her lips as she said , ‘ I wonder what Mrs Funnell will say to this ? |
| 11 | The car purred onwards , moving easily through the traffic , and eventually a light frown began to settle over her face . |
| 12 | His gaze left her face and began to roam over her figure , and her nerve gave out entirely . |
| 13 | About an hour before reaching Jura dark clouds began to roll over on us from its lofty peaks , and soon we had a perfect torrent of rain . |
| 14 | From late 1922 , however , extreme anti-Marxism — now often without the express linkage to the Jews — began to take over as a dominant theme of his speeches . |
| 15 | When factory industry began to take over , however , the mills were built at Hebden Bridge below , to take advantage of the water-power provided by the river and the transport facility of the canal , so Hebden Bridge grew fast into a busy mill town whilst Heptonstall remained as it had always been . |
| 16 | But the modern equivalents of the apothecaries , surgeons , druggists and vets of the past now operate from Driffield , which began to take over from Kilham as the ‘ Capital of the Wolds ’ in the late 18th century and through the 19th . |
| 17 | The research team acquired a mine of information , which they decided to put into a teaching pack for midwives and other health professionals , and it was then that the project began to take over Mrs Kelsall 's life . |
| 18 | The job began to take over my life , and my first marriage ended in divorce . |
| 19 | As the engineers within the BEA began to take over direct responsibility for the power station sites during 1948 , the prospect of strengthening the organisation improved . |
| 20 | Although the government found the ‘ service city ’ far from satisfactory , it was not until Catherine II 's reign that centrally appointed officials began to take over many of these functions . |
| 21 | But slowly another emotion began to take over — anger . |
| 22 | There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century . |
| 23 | And that the peasant associations had now become the , the sole erm sort of er th they were the authority , they , they , they began to take over control , they were th the leading the thing . |
| 24 | What about that child who had screamed in Act Two , and the hissing that had followed … and the outbreak of sobbing when Tinkerbell drank the poison and Peter announced she was dying … and the sigh that had rippled … yes , rippled through the theatre when Peter , alone on the rock in the lagoon , heard the mermaid 's melancholy cry as the moon began to rise over Never-Never Land . |
| 25 | Then with a great shout he began to plunge over bodies and kit-bags down the gangway towards us . |