Example sentences of "[was/were] beginning [to-vb] [prep] the [noun pl] " 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 The heat was beginning to go off the streets and the shadows were creeping out from the walls .
3 She was beginning to tire on the stairs .
4 The late morning sun was beginning to break through the clouds .
5 The bookshop was still open , and now , in addition to the paperbacks , the little magazines , and the Village Voice , the new wave of American papers was beginning to appear on the shelves .
6 Dawn was beginning to appear through the trees .
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