Example sentences of "begin [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work .
2 And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney .
3 Here they also found the values of the market place , which stressed personal independence and self-gratification , and began to search for a sexual fulfilment which , Shorter .
4 I was involved in opposing the Vietnam War , began to write for a left newspaper , Black Dwarf and became part of the beginnings of the women 's liberation movement .
5 In 1828 he began to write for the fledgling Record newspaper and subsequently became its chief proprietor and the dominant influence on editorial policy for half a century .
6 So Clemente and his FA were taken aback when England returned from the Swedish disaster and began pushing for an away fixture at anywhere in Spain that could be called ‘ cool ’ .
7 German units were now leaving Sicily in a steady trickle as the Luftwaffe began regrouping for the forthcoming attack on Russia .
8 His pacifism was couched in the violent language of subversion and revolution , and long before 1917 he began to look for a distinctive Scottish way out of the war .
9 But it was when he began finding the 26 mile 385 yard distance — which he can complete in two hours and 57 minutes — ‘ about right for starters ’ , that he began to look for a new challenge .
10 But , in the summer of 1945 , he took a furnished room in Kensington and began to look for a suitable and convenient residence of his own .
11 The March Hare poured a little hot tea on its nose , and the Hatter began to look for a clean plate .
12 He began to look for a safe stance for the night …
13 Oag , formerly marketing director with a major computer industry concern in London , had grown tired of weekend commuting from Nairn , and began to look for a local company he could invest time and money in .
14 Eventually , they entered London , and Noah began to look for a quiet , cheap pub where they could spend the night .
15 Perhaps most disturbing from the point of view of the central authorities , the party organisations in the three republics , particularly in Lithuania , began to press for a greater degree of independence , establishing direct links with outside ruling parties and adopting their own programme and statute , within or if necessary outside the framework of the CPSU as a whole .
16 Labourers began to scramble for the available employment ; unemployment increased ; while labourers still continued to anticipate marriage .
17 She saw low pay as the root of the problem and from 1896 began to campaign for the legal minimum wage .
18 [ he ] … began to understand for the first time just how much there was in this business of being a ship 's officer .
19 The train was beginning to slow for the next station .
20 The champagne reception — at which Kylie began to demonstrate for the first time a new found confidence with both press and public — also gave them the perfect opportunity to milk their golden child 's latest achievement , three UK gold discs for ‘ Kylie ’ the LP , and the singles ‘ I Should Be So Lucky ’ and ‘ Got To Be Certain ’ .
21 Harry 's expression began to relax for the first time in Nicholas 's company .
22 With the publication of the terms of Emancipation inflammatory pamphlets began to call for a mass uprising .
23 He immediately began studying for a new career in the treatment room .
24 The local Parties , growing in strength , began to ask for a greater voice in decisions than was allowed under the 1918 constitution .
25 As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning .
26 From the time of the Anschluss in March 1938 , until the outbreak of war in September 1939 , hopes of peace gradually faded and we began to prepare for the grim reality .
27 Characters such as broader incisors and enlarged maxillary sinuses are the only characters apart from the premaxillary/incisive complex ( see character 4 ) that Begun designates for the hominine clade , but I would interpret these as basal hominid characters ( node 2 on the cladogram in box 1 ) , not diagnostic of the hominine clade .
28 Launching International Literacy Year 1990 , UNESCO Director General said that the absolute number of illiterates had begun to decline for the first time in history .
29 Joseph 's melancholy had begun to evaporate for the first time since leaving the hunting camp as the goateed mandarin , walking ponderously beside him in ceremonial boots , reeled off the mystical-sounding names of the shimmering buildings : the Can-Chanh , the Great Mansion the Palace of the Spirits of the Six Emperors … the Temple of Generations … the Halls of the Splendours and the Moon and the Glory of the Sun — and most mysterious of all to his young impressionable mind , the guarded heart of the citadel , the Tu Cam Thanh , the Purple Forbidden City named after the Purple or Pole Star , the symbolic ruler of the heavens .
30 But behind the scenes some countries have ( unlike the Americans ) already begun planning for a different outcome .
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