Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] beginning [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 2 | There were lesbian nuances I did n't much like ; perhaps because I was beginning to take against the facet in Conchis 's polyhedral character that obviously enjoyed ‘ curious ’ objects and literature . |
| 3 | I was beginning to understand from the people I had encoun-tered in Reine that it was a drama still running , and likely to continue to run . |
| 4 | I was beginning to think of the bordello . |
| 5 | She was beginning to respond to the tenderness of his fingers playing up and down her spine . |
| 6 | She was beginning to tire on the stairs . |
| 7 | And in addition to that , of course , they have copper , and coming up on the future horizon cobalt , and erm the possibilities of developing tourism on quite a big scale , as they were beginning to do in the nineteen sixties before Amin Amin took over . |
| 8 | The war had brought extra responsibilities to the village constable and now they were beginning to show in the tired lines on his face . |
| 9 | The inclusion of half-a-dozen peers who held no significant office suggests that it was beginning to revert to the form of the 1520s , when the Council had included both office-holders and men whose political support was valuable to the Crown . |
| 10 | Just as he was beginning to adapt to the fact that there were Muslims — and that some of them were quite pleasant — it turned out that there were as many strains of Muslim as there were of the virus responsible for the common cold . |