Example sentences of "[noun sg] begin [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The billhook had sliced into his naked thigh and , turning , she saw the great curve of red blood begin to bubble in the air , saw him slowly sink like a wounded animal , his hands plucking the air . |
| 2 | ( Echoes of Evelyn Waugh 's Ishmaelite consul-general begin to flutter in the ear : ‘ As that great Negro , Karl Marx , has so nobly written … ‘ ) |
| 3 | There was a marked increase in enquiries during the quarter as signs of a recovery begin to appear in the UK housing market . |
| 4 | AS A NEW GOVERNMENT attempts to reverse the problems of 100 years of economic decline and the faces of the previous decade begin to recede into the past , who now rules Britain ? |
| 5 | With the departure of one Secretary and the arrival of another , the office staff — apart of course from the members of the Signet Office — normally changed completely ; not until the early seventeenth century did a permanent bureaucratic organization begin to appear beneath the Secretary of State . |