Example sentences of "[noun] began [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The champagne reception — at which Kylie began to demonstrate for the first time a new found confidence with both press and public — also gave them the perfect opportunity to milk their golden child 's latest achievement , three UK gold discs for ‘ Kylie ’ the LP , and the singles ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and ‘ Got To Be Certain ’ . |
| 2 | As kite rallies began to get into the full swing of a tightly packed annual diary of events from the early 1980s , so a new trend developed . |
| 3 | ‘ A reluctant light began to spread over the eastern sky . |
| 4 | They turned , staying in the centre of Cheapside as the melting snow began to slide from the sloping tiled roofs . |
| 5 | As he spoke a dark pool of blood began to gather under the luxuriant mane of Harriet 's auburn hair which had escaped from the loosened snood and spread slowly over the ground . |
| 6 | Footsteps began to crunch across the frozen rock towards the entrance . |
| 7 | From the Second World War the percentage of local government income derived from grants increased steadily and although the proportion began to fall during the 1980s ( as a result of public expenditure restraint policies ) it is still sufficient to provide central government with a powerful instrument for influencing local authorities . |
| 8 | Sarekat Islam was damaged by its association with the PKI : hence , as Sukarno began to appear on the political stage , there was something of a vacuum . |
| 9 | However , GKR began to flourish in the early 1980s , not so much in financial services as across the board in industry . |
| 10 | As will be discussed in Chapter 10 , the first big generation of owner-occupiers began to retire from the 1960s onwards . |
| 11 | I chewed betel with the barefoot skipper in his wheel-house until , as the old tub began to roll in the outside channel , I realised that had been a mistake . |
| 12 | Hot sulphurous winds began to rake through the empty Delhi avenues . |
| 13 | The revolutionary Marxist ideology adopted by the intelligentsia began to merge with the working-class movement . |
| 14 | Gradually , the number of individual objectors prepared to enter the fray began to expand outside the initial handful . |
| 15 | Particularly impressive was the way in which the South East 's population began to decline in the late 1960s , following its rapid growth in the 1950s and the early 1960s . |
| 16 | As the gloom of evening began to settle over the leafy canopy Paige carried her last bundle of kindling back to their campsite . |
| 17 | A group began to form on the other side of the potted palms . |
| 18 | Selwyn began to walk up the short drive . |
| 19 | The founder of the theory of scales which is commonly used as the basis for social measurement is the psychologist S.S. Stevens , whose ideas began to crystallise in the 1940s in response to a challenge issued , in 1932 , by physicists and psychologists of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to " assess the possibility of " " quantitative estimates of sensory events " " . |
| 20 | In the meantime , opinion began to move towards the last of the possibilities — and the one which suited Baldwin the best — a minority Labour Government . |
| 21 | But slowly her body began to respond to the powerful but gentle kisses , and she began to lose her apprehension . |
| 22 | Reference to annual series of population estimates indicates that in Great Britain , this process began to accelerate in the mid 1960s and has waned since reaching a peak in the early 1970s . |
| 23 | A terrible roaring sound began to emanate from the doomed building , and the bystanders were ordered to get well away . |
| 24 | Nessie began to lift off the larger embers and was surprised that the heap of ashes was so high . |
| 25 | Labourers began to scramble for the available employment ; unemployment increased ; while labourers still continued to anticipate marriage . |
| 26 | It was not surprising that even within the upper reaches of the Party discontent began to come into the open , or at least to be expressed clearly behind closed doors at meetings of the Central Committee or Council of Ministers . |
| 27 | A tide began to surge beneath the calm surface of Stephen 's friendliness . |
| 28 | His fingers began to scrabble at the coarse edge of the steel plate . |
| 29 | Colourful velvets for the outer case began to appear in the early nineteenth century . |
| 30 | Her first enthusiasm began to wane on the short ride back to Maran Hill . |