Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [prep] [pron] own " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The economic and unemployment misery daily portrayed through the British media should make us all more aware that we must begin to look after our own .
3 The cold clouds seen at 100 micrometres are large and diffuse , evidently just beginning to condense under their own gravity .
4 The third and least well developed principle , the " representative " principle , began to come into its own .
5 Lan , for her part , hoped fervently that her innocence would be self-evident , and as she watched her prostrate grandfather 's lips moving soundlessly she began to phrase in her own mind the plea for leniency she intended to submit to the ancestral spirit .
6 The obsessive and lightweight dismissals in Record Mirror hinted at a Morrissey who was beginning to live within his own self appraisal .
7 And when something odd began to happen in her own body , a sensation she wished to call ugly because she had never felt it before and did not wish to feel it now with him , she released her temper again , thrashing about quite wildly beneath him to hurt herself and make the treacherous feeling go away .
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