Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] beginning [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Handfuls of sleet were beginning to wander through the air . |
| 2 | The late morning sun was beginning to break through the clouds . |
| 3 | By the time she had rolled the last lump of dog food into the canal , the sun was beginning to rise in the east . |
| 4 | At least a little more flexibility was beginning to emanate from the British Foreign Office over the question of the Suez base . |
| 5 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 6 | By the time they had been to make-up , and tramped back up the stairs to have another drink , a definite uneasiness was beginning to settle over the whole company . |
| 7 | Our earlier discussion had reached a satisfactory breaking-off point and his attention was beginning to wander to the outer office where pandemonium was on the point of breaking out . |
| 8 | Her head was beginning to throb from the smoky , claustrophobic atmosphere , and she wondered how she could tactfully drop a few hints about leaving without inviting a tirade of displeasure from André , which was the last thing she felt she could cope with . |
| 9 | The train was beginning to slow for the next station . |
| 10 | Criticisms within and without Parliament made it clear that this audit model of control was beginning to falter in the post-war period . |
| 11 | The sky was beginning to lighten to the east , streaks of day , as bright as magnesium flares , at the meeting point of sea and air set a fresh breeze stirring and whipped up a rhythm on the water 's surface . |
| 12 | By indulging in such policies , Professor Beer has contended , government was beginning to move in the direction of a managed economy . |
| 13 | The air was beginning to blush with the first , reassuring glow of the mounting sun , and the breeze that had tossed Dulé and his companions in the pirogues was freshening . |
| 14 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 15 | The heat was beginning to go off the streets and the shadows were creeping out from the walls . |
| 16 | Advance in labour productivity was beginning to depend upon the quality and involvement of the worker . |
| 17 | By the time he wrote the survey quoted above , evolutionary morphology was beginning to fall into the background as new sciences such as genetics took over the forefront of scientific research . |
| 18 | Just as the family was beginning to get over the tragedy , Dawn 's older sister , Sheila , 6 , vanished from home and was found the next day , drowned in a canal . |