Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She listened , still half drugged from sleep , straining her ears intently , a touch of uneasiness making her blood begin to pound like a deep sea-swell in her veins . |
| 2 | We begin to sense with a keener sensitivity the needs of people around us . |
| 3 | You may have experienced something similar with shampoo : use the same one for too long and the remarkable results you may have seen at first begin to diminish after a few washes . |
| 4 | She felt her pulses begin to beat in a different rhythm . |
| 5 | His voice sounded lazily relaxed , but his eyes , in spite of the smile , were giving her such exciting messages that Kate , under his spell as never before , could feel her heart once more begin to beat with a heavy , sensuous rhythm . |
| 6 | As you gain experience and begin to think about a first cross-country , local soaring provides a golden opportunity to check the compass for large errors and to get some practice at turning on to definite headings . |
| 7 | Just as certain behavioural habits develop , such as vomiting after every meal , so women with bulimia can develop habitual thoughts and begin to think in a bulimic way . |
| 8 | You 'll soon begin to feel like a million dollars even if you 're down to your last cent . |
| 9 | Unless we begin to operate as a united industry and impose a voluntary reduction on crop planting it is difficult to see anything other than another year of disastrous returns . ’ |
| 10 | Yet on returning to the stage for the first encore , after the first set which had lasted only 35 minutes , they all actually began to sound like a live band and you momentarily forgot about the keyboard player triggering off the backing vocals , and the percussionists aided by drum sequencers . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm beginning to sound like a right-wing lunatic . ’ |
| 12 | He may need to do a bit of work on the accent , but McIntosh is beginning to sound like a natural Scottish no.8 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Alerted by her dulcet tones , a crowd began to gather outside a downtown boutique and May generously offered a few fashion tips to the throng . |
| 15 | Further afield , the Indian National Congress was already beginning to grope towards a national identity , as was the Sarekat Islam in the great Dutch empire of the East Indies . |
| 16 | Snow was beginning to fall from a heavy grey sky . |
| 17 | Instead , she began to light like a wild cat . |
| 18 | While Computer 2000 AG fumes over the potential implications of the Polish government 's decision to waive duty on the imports of local assemblers ( CI No 2,140 ) , indications are emerging that the company 's six-month-old operation in Hungary is beginning to perform after a troubled start . |
| 19 | At a site by the Royal Hotel that has remained undeveloped for 40 years , sycamore ( Acer pseudo platanus ) is beginning to appear above a dense patch of buddleia ; the sycamore is probably the natural successor to buddleia in this city . |
| 20 | The nearest birds began to pitch on a higher , longer , more anxious note . |
| 21 | ‘ What am I ? ’ she asked looking at Tumbleweed , and then began to recite in a sing-song voice , ‘ with a stick in me hand and a stone in me throat , I walk through the land in me shiny , red coat . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 24 | Sit , they said , but he would n't This week John Major began to appear on a different kind of box . |
| 25 | Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep . |
| 26 | She began to chant in a low , eerie voice , words in a language foreign to Lucien . |
| 27 | But he began to chant in a sombre , sing-song voice . |
| 28 | They began to engage in a ritual practice of the Caucasian gypsies . |
| 29 | But his interest grew as he worked , and he began to aim at a comprehensive expository commentary on Epicurus . |
| 30 | He was beginning to talk like a true countryman . |