Example sentences of "begun [to-vb] at " in BNC.

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1 Hungarians have begun to train at Sandhurst , Britain 's main officer-training college .
2 I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night .
3 It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone .
4 Again in 1960 , the EEC had begun to look at the problem of discrimination in transport , and in 1961 a Monetary Committee was established , as well as one charged with examining trade cycle policy .
5 Worse , Mr. Mounce had begun to look at him oddly .
6 Once we had begun to look at particular steps in the biochemical cascade in more detail , however , I became persuaded that reasonably specific inhibitors might help cast light on relevant mechanisms .
7 Then , working with staff and using these projects as ‘ guinea pigs ’ , the Centre has begun to look at what makes projects of this kind succeed and whether there are general support mechanisms ( eg. materials , training ) which the Enterprise Centre could help to develop as a resource for academic staff .
8 Ethologists have not yet begun to grasp at the crucial characteristic of human beings that tends to invalidate all but the most cautious inferences from other animals to Man .
9 Yanto had already begun to laugh at Sooty 's serious face .
10 But a wind of change had already begun to blow at Newport Pagnell .
11 He had begun to tremble at the very thought .
12 Signs of the tenacious Selina ambition had already begun to show at the age of 13 when she secured her first job on the Darlington and Stockton Times .
13 He could remember the first time that he 'd stepped outside into country darkness and closed the door behind him ; it was as if he 'd been struck blind with the click of the latch , and he 'd begun to panic at his inability even to tell which way was up .
14 Such dramatic attempts at direct action were not the only ways in which people had begun to protest at the development of nuclear power .
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