Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When such a clear target has been voiced and accepted , ideas for units begin to flow at a rate which the technology and the programmer find difficult to cope with . |
| 2 | ‘ People get hooked , ’ he wrote , ‘ they begin to behave in a way that resembles addiction . |
| 3 | It might arise if one additional record were added to each group of consecutive records ; for example , a group of stores might begin to open on a Saturday , and require an extra record for each store to record transactions . |
| 4 | They saw him leave the room where they were sitting and begin to walk across a bar which lay between it and the entrance to the building . |
| 5 | The skull seems to become translucent , and within it — and in the flesh about it — knotted cords of white begin to form into a spiral which funnels back into a single thicker cord at the back of the skull . |
| 6 | Once this is done , Japan 's electronics companies will begin to compete in a market that is only just emerging — selling software packages for personal computers . |
| 7 | Now Hungarian poetry may begin to change towards a poetry which is more autonomous , more self-subsistent with its own themes and materials , not necessarily so directly structured by our political situation . |
| 8 | The Tories did not really begin to recover as a party until Sir William Wyndham 's accession to the leadership from about 1724 . |
| 9 | A patient may be so anxious that he can not begin to act in a way which would resolve his problems . |
| 10 | The tannoy on the Isle of Man boat gave occasional coughs , and tinny , inaudible announcements , but they did not begin to panic for a while . |
| 11 | You begin to feel like a boxer . |
| 12 | Once Paul 's cult began to crystallise as a religion in itself , rather than a form of Judaism , it dictated certain priorities which had not obtained in Jesus 's lifetime and which Jesus himself would unquestionably have deplored . |
| 13 | Another was the ā gri , sitting beside a petal-shaped oil lamp which he replenished as soon as the flame began to dwindle from a bowl on the hearth . |
| 14 | For a long moment their eyes remained locked in a fierce battle , until Ace 's image began to shimmer in a sort of haze in front of her , then , quite without warning , Kate passed out ; a great wave of blackness overwhelmed her , pushing all hurt and troubled feelings aside . |
| 15 | Her limbs trembled , her heart beginning to pound like a sledge-hammer at the note of hard determination in his voice , which betrayed no weakness or breathlessness , evidence — if she 'd needed it — of his superbly fit physique . |
| 16 | That 's a relief — you were beginning to sound like a Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 17 | ‘ My God , you 're beginning to sound like a wife . |
| 18 | You 're beginning to sound like a mother hen ; I half expect you to cluck at any minute . ’ |
| 19 | He was the boss , after all , but he was beginning to sound like a slave-driver . |
| 20 | At this vow , which he had repeated to her so often it was beginning to sound like a mantra , Ashley frowned . |
| 21 | You 're beginning to sound like a pig . ’ |
| 22 | It was beginning to sound like an inquisition . |
| 23 | Then he took out a book from his desk and began to search for a name . |
| 24 | Not long after acquiring Belle Vue Cottage she began to search for a piece of land in the Cotherstone area , preferably a fenced-i-meadow . |
| 25 | She reached into the Mini and lifted out her bag and began to rummage for a pen and paper . |
| 26 | The Butcher grunted and began to rummage in a metal box . |
| 27 | However his teachers recognised his exceptional qualities and he was given junior teaching posts which enabled him to register at the University of Pennsylvania , where he obtained his Master 's degree and began to work towards a PhD , specialising in philosophy . |
| 28 | At fourteen he began to work as a postman at 2d. a round , one round each morning . |
| 29 | More seriously , the Soviet alliance system in Eastern Europe began to disappear as a series of popular revolutions overturned the communist governments in Poland , Hungary , Czechoslovakia , Romania and the GDR ( which became a part of Germany and thereby of NATO under the terms of a treaty signed by the two Germanies , France , Britain and the United States as well as the Soviet Union in September 1990 ) . |
| 30 | She then stood next to the telephone box , her stomach beginning to tighten in a way which was becoming sickeningly familiar . |