Example sentences of "[adj] began [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sabine began to fumble with the seatbelt . |
| 2 | The rich began to build along the sides of Windermere , and fitted out boats with cannon ; salvoes were fired in order to ‘ enjoy the echoes ’ . |
| 3 | Independent bodies like Amnesty International began to focus on the conditions in which the Iraqi takeover of Kuwait was being conducted . |
| 4 | That was the year when , in the parks and boulevards of the great cities of the West , people first began to talk about the death of images . |
| 5 | Thus although the political initiative for the start of NEP came from the top , the economic life-blood at first began to flow from the bottom upwards . |
| 6 | He first began to think about the repercussions of such hard commercial decisions in 1971 , and by the time that he 65 became chairman of British Steel upon the untimely death of Lord Melchett he had formulated a way to ease the hardship . |
| 7 | Fairbanks found that when sea level first began to rise as the ice sheets melted , 17,000 years ago , it did so at a rate of about 4mm per year . |
| 8 | It was in those far-off days as they strolled through the parks and boulevards of the great cities of the West , that people first began to speak of the death of images . |
| 9 | When the larva first began to develop from the egg , its cells were segregated into two groups . |
| 10 | When the Romans first began to expand into the Balkans in the third century BC , the area was inhabited by Thracian , Illyrian and Celtic tribes . |
| 11 | Though several economists in the late 1950s began to look at the economics of education , it was Schultz 's presidential address to the American Economic Association in 1960 that heralded the arrival of the human capital theory on the international academic scene . |
| 12 | He was unaware of the other aircraft until both began to veer off the side of the runway . |
| 13 | On discovery the following morning , the wives were extremely angry and frustrated and broke into the clubhouse , selected a club each and in groups of twos , threes and fours began to search for the Maharajah . |