Example sentences of "[noun sg] began [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dust from the tailings pond began to blow over the countryside again in 1985 , starting on 10 February , a Sunday . |
| 2 | The hairs on the back of his neck began to rise with the blast of primitive hatred which had rushed through the air . |
| 3 | They were running through thickly forested country , and tension began to mount in the car . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The whole of the prom was in shadow now and a chill , blustery wind began to riffle through the litter in the gutters . |
| 6 | As the wind began to rise outside the palm house , Halema told the story of Aisha 's deafness . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Tory vote began to seem like the Cheshire Cat that Alice came across in her travels . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | since the car began to roll off the line . |
| 11 | But then a peculiar light began to creep down the steps , mostly blocked by Adam , but searching , sharp , pricking Ruth like needles . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He stopped and the snow began to drift over the toes of his boots . |
| 16 | Then blood began to splatter on the glass from Pearce 's open mouth . |
| 17 | Guido was laughing , as the little boat began to scud across the waves again . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Scattered cheers answered him , big Mary gave a ‘ Heeuggh ! ’ like a dancer , and the whole throng began to move along the road westwards , past the dark silent façade of the inn , the equally silent church and manse , towards the gates of Castle Menzies . |
| 21 | As the sun began to set behind the Qutab Minar , I made up my mind to explore sometime soon what was once the most enormous complex of fortifications in all Islam . |
| 22 | A tiny weeny hint of a plan began to tinkle at the back of my brain like a triangle at the back of an orchestra . |
| 23 | Since the machine began to move towards the water as soon as they were inside , changing in its damp , smelly and retracted confines was none too easy , despite the lure of their newly acquired bathing costumes . |
| 24 | In April a restlessness seemed to come into the air as the village began to throw off the lethargy of winter . |
| 25 | The car 's powerful engine began to tick in the silence as it cooled in the mild evening breeze . |
| 26 | By the early sixteenth century , however , the figure of arrears dropped ; as a rising population began to press on the means of subsistence , the lord had a more powerful weapon to hand . |
| 27 | As the Navigator nudged Tormentum Malorum slowly nearer to the indicated zone , using only attitude jets , for Jaq a strange intuition of security began to percolate through the dread engendered by hulk and warp alike . |
| 28 | Farming began to flourish in the Lothian plains once the bogs had been cleared and fords or bridges provided over the network of rivers and streams . |
| 29 | And so a sort of small welfare rights group began to form in the dayroom . |
| 30 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that it was implicit in the Housing Act 1957 that a local authority must serve a demand for expenses before bringing an action to recover them under section 10(3) ; but that the requirement to serve such a demand before taking action was a mere procedural step which was not part of the cause of action and that , save as expressly provided by section 10(4) for summary proceedings , the period of limitation began to run from the completion of the works ; and that , accordingly , the action was statute-barred ( post , pp. 126F–G , 129E — 130B ) . |