Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [det] time [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In the summer of 1918 he began to devote more time to the club in between duties at the arms factory in Barnbow , but , perhaps sensing that trouble was brewing , he suddenly resigned as secretary-manager on 16 December to go into full-time industrial management with Joseph Watson & Sons at the Olympia oil and cake works in Selby .
2 Will began to spend more time in Stratford , because it was quiet there , and he could do his writing .
3 Distracted also by his own uncertain future , he began to spend less time on Lake Street and more on getting back into journalism .
4 But by the summer she was beginning to spend more time in the open air , and one August evening she walked to the churchyard .
5 In the rest of the country we can not be sure of the date , although the evidence begins to suggest some time in the late Saxon period , the centuries before the Norman Conquest .
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