Example sentences of "[noun] began [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pressed in the number , then Bryce 's name , his face bathed in a green glow as first figures then images began to appear on the screen . |
| 2 | Dust from the tailings pond began to blow over the countryside again in 1985 , starting on 10 February , a Sunday . |
| 3 | Anton , the old répétiteur , even older than Busacher , sat down at the piano and the thin embarrassed voices began to tingle into the air , picking up a little courage as they went on . |
| 4 | The hairs on the back of his neck began to rise with the blast of primitive hatred which had rushed through the air . |
| 5 | With cold and deliberate fury , Bernice began to explain to the scientist exactly what she thought of his ‘ opinion ’ . |
| 6 | They were running through thickly forested country , and tension began to mount in the car . |
| 7 | These eyes began to discern in the Bible distinctive themes and emphases which did not harmonise with the official theology . |
| 8 | Provincial market towns , in 1922 as throughout the Soviet period , collected the first rural tide of those looking for work — peasant vagrants , demobilized soldiers , and in the case of the Smolensk area , flax-workers out of a job as their industry began to decline after the boom of the war years . |
| 9 | E/3 all-metal cars began to appear on the Thornton Heath route 42 . |
| 10 | That figural designs began to occur in the west in any numbers ( i.e. not counting the very early example from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 ) in approximately the same period as a further development of figural design is apparent in the southeast , is an interesting possibility : this may also have been contemporary with the first appearance of fully centralised designs . |
| 11 | The whole of the prom was in shadow now and a chill , blustery wind began to riffle through the litter in the gutters . |
| 12 | As the wind began to rise outside the palm house , Halema told the story of Aisha 's deafness . |
| 13 | So I nodded and smiled and agreed , while part of my mind began to toy with the question of whether Balbazian steel was as impregnable as its well-advertised reputation insisted . |
| 14 | When the sound of high-flying aircraft began to soak into the atmosphere people stopped talking but looked more interested than afraid . |
| 15 | The Tory vote began to seem like the Cheshire Cat that Alice came across in her travels . |
| 16 | And she still remembered how , as the car began to climb into the lake land hills , she had seen her first mountain — a sharp blue crag that , outlined against the sky , had made her sit up and stare . |
| 17 | since the car began to roll off the line . |
| 18 | But then a peculiar light began to creep down the steps , mostly blocked by Adam , but searching , sharp , pricking Ruth like needles . |
| 19 | Each gentle breath was exquisitely hushed in these still hours as the light began to glimmer over the arch of heaven , ‘ mid the cloud-wreaths , over the mountains , and on the wide expanse of ocean — ahead , astern , and on either side of us , as we sped towards Lewis . |
| 20 | Towards the end , as the stage show of The King And I moved triumphantly from city to city , Rock began to feel like the boy who could see the emperor had no clothes . |
| 21 | Shapes began to form as the colours settled into patterns , but the shapes were still indistinct when they started to move violently . |
| 22 | From then on , Matilda was a welcome visitor to The Red House every single evening after school , and a very close friendship began to develop between the teacher and the small child . |
| 23 | He stopped and the snow began to drift over the toes of his boots . |
| 24 | Then blood began to splatter on the glass from Pearce 's open mouth . |
| 25 | Guido was laughing , as the little boat began to scud across the waves again . |
| 26 | The Chronicle A ( s.a. 685 ) says that Caedwalla began to contend for the kingship in 685 , but it was not until 686 that he established himself as king over the western Saxons . |
| 27 | In November 1902 , a great spine or pillar of solidified lava began to rise above the crater of the Etang Sec , forced upwards by the pressure of the magma below . |
| 28 | The first companies of the infantry began to appear along the south side of the river , making a brave show , however weary with forced marching . |
| 29 | It was that time of year when England began to prepare for the Guy Fawkes celebrations of 5 November . |
| 30 | His poetry began to appear in the Marlburian in 1912 , influenced by John Masefield [ q.v. ] and by the Wiltshire downs , with their irresistible evocation of the past . |