Example sentences of "begin [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 2 | Mr Abello was the fourth-ranking person in the Medellin cartel and the most important suspect arrested since Colombia began cracking down on the cocaine barons nearly two months ago , the department said . |
| 3 | At once the crabber began to bounce about on the waves , as though the Angharad was dancing a jig over the water in her pleasure at taking a trip . |
| 4 | I was busy doing interviews , as the media were beginning to pick up on the story . |
| 5 | It was at about this time that Charles acquired a tutor and through him began to look out on the world through a learned man 's eyes . |
| 6 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 7 | Shortly after Rome Carl began speaking out on the drug issue , implicating by suggestion Ben and his coach Charlie Francis . |
| 8 | Traffic was beginning to build up on the main road which bypassed Axe , and the sound of one particular car engine could be heard , becoming steadily louder as it approached her part of the lane . |
| 9 | The morning sky was smudged yellow and grey with smoke and the heat was beginning to beat down on the fighting when Dulé gave a leg-up to one of his fellow fighters to scale the stockade . |
| 10 | Soon genuine celebrities descended from on high and began showing up on the show . |
| 11 | That would be the end of any engagements elsewhere , just when he was beginning to get back on the international circuit . |
| 12 | Suddenly , Katrina dropped to her knees and began scrabbling around on the floor . |
| 13 | The night before Nenna and her two daughters were due to leave England , storm weather began to blow up on the Reach . |
| 14 | He could see the River Thames below with the new high-rise housing blocks already beginning to show up on the skyline . |
| 15 | The authorities in Hainan in southern China have begun to crack down on the hunting , selling and buying of protected animals in the province . |
| 16 | SINCE artworks began to flood out of China in the early 1980s — mostly smuggled by sea to Macao or Hong Kong — extraordinary rarities , hitherto unknown in the West , have begun to turn up on the market . |