Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legs and hips begin to work at their maximum power when the club arrives parallel to the ground during the forward swing . |
| 2 | UNDERSTANDING COME dawns when disorientation sets in , and you begin to succumb to their dizzying realm . |
| 3 | It is a quiet and comfortable village to stop in , as I know from having stopped there , with good walks up into the hills and good fishing — for trout , which begin to come into their own around here as the mountain fish . |
| 4 | A little later on , when all the relatives have gone home and the number of attentive friends at the time of the funeral has dwindled , it might be the time when the bereaved begin to reflect on their changed circumstances and try to evaluate how they feel both about themselves and the person who has died . |
| 5 | I heaped much obscene verbal abuse on various owners to the extent that several begin to leash in their ugly mutts when they saw me coming . |
| 6 | Hebert 's and Wainwright 's articles are encouraging because they begin to deal with their critical objects as a point of intervention within a political debate . |
| 7 | Only after the entry of the skeleton-forming cells do the group of cells that will form the gut begin to pulsate on their inner surfaces and a small inward indentation of the wall occurs . |
| 8 | The cold clouds seen at 100 micrometres are large and diffuse , evidently just beginning to condense under their own gravity . |
| 9 | As the Whigs gradually began to retreat from their erstwhile espousal of populist causes , the Tories increasingly appeared to be the party with more to offer ordinary people . |
| 10 | The stars began to slow from their wild dervish dance to a stately waltz . |
| 11 | By the time , in 1909 , the Majority Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress recommended that the relief of poverty should remain primarily in the hands of voluntary organizations , such organizations were already beginning to decline from their late-nineteenth-century peak . |
| 12 | Sophie moreover actually had a job , had an income , which was beginning to be something of a pressing issue , inflation and the changing climate began to bite into their indifferent superiority to the outside world and they had given no thought as to how to fight that . |
| 13 | The Kislevites were driven to wild fury by what they had witnessed in Praag , and the Chaos army began to crumble before their implacable anger . |
| 14 | People throughout Europe and America began to complain against their new god who seemed to have let them down . |
| 15 | Distinguished Romanian emigres began to speak of their erstwhile leader as a dictator and a clown . |
| 16 | The south Italians and Sicilians , who were to flood into the big cities of the Americas , had hardly yet begun to stir from their native slum villages , the east Europeans , Catholic or Orthodox , remained largely sedentary , only the Jews seeping or flooding into provincial towns from which they had hitherto been excluded and thence into larger cities . |
| 17 | The small audience had begun to fidget on their rickety folded chairs . |