Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [conj] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life in Parma at the beginning of the school year seemed normal apart from the Fascist propaganda in the papers , but one began to sense that the members of the Party were becoming even more arrogant and domineering than before , and that it was increasingly important for people with different ideas to keep them to themselves and never to discuss politics . |
| 2 | We are now beginning to see that the beatitudes are like steps cut into a mountain . |
| 3 | However , Tess began to find that the cows which came to her usually happened to be her favourites . |
| 4 | Jess began to shake and the sobs she 'd encouraged broke out with fresh vigour and real conviction . |
| 5 | As she trudged awkwardly up the valley road her feet began to sweat and the toes rubbed painfully against each other . |
| 6 | After these conversations I began to wonder whether the Houys were right . |
| 7 | Of course , most of them thrive on it , but many people are beginning to wonder if the rewards for having power , and being able to influence others , are worth the costs , especially in terms of family relationships . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've no idea but I 'm beginning to wonder if the cops do n't have another idea . |
| 9 | Yet by now Battle Brothers were as mastiffs straining on the leash ; and it began to seem that the cadets might become Scouts in time to participate in the great endeavour , should they be so fortunate . |
| 10 | A feeling began to emerge that the advantages of the new approach might be long- rather than short-term , but the dichotomy between wanting to work in the new way because of its potential advantages and ‘ Are we ever going to get the syllabus done ? ’ continued to be problematic . |
| 11 | ‘ Even the Home Office is now beginning to question whether the Firearms Amendment Act , passed after the Hungerford incident , has helped secure public safety . ’ |
| 12 | With a screech , the car began to slow as the brakes were applied , and Richmann could clearly see the startled faces of the occupants as it slewed to a halt only a few feet ahead . |
| 13 | As he listened with mounting alarm he began to realise that the flames would almost certainly have reduced some of the world 's finest baroque woodcarving to lumps of featureless charcoal . |
| 14 | The wipers began to wheeze as the snowflakes built up into hard wedges of ice , and some of the men in the back were stamping feet on the floor of the van trying to improve their circulation . |
| 15 | Just after eleven , more people began to arrive as the pubs chucked out and so Dosh and I ( or maybe it was Freddie ) moved upstairs where we 'd found another front room which had been stripped of furniture and somebody had run a pair of extra speakers off the disco in the lounge . |
| 16 | Darwin was beginning to realise that the naturalists at the Zoological Society might need more information than he had provided in his notes . |
| 17 | At a certain point in the ceremony the rhythm of the weeping began to change and the tears were replaced by laughter and sometimes a kind of ecstatic , even erotic frenzy . |
| 18 | He also feared the growth of Aminis influence and began to think that the reforms his prime ministers proposed were too extensive . |
| 19 | We are beginning to think that the proceedings are expressly designed not to produce a verdict , and especially not a guilty one . |
| 20 | ‘ Oranges and Lemons ’ the bells began to ring as the worshippers arrived in their hats and gloves and Liberty scarves . |
| 21 | The slope down to Rock Creek began to steepen and the shops thinned out as they moved away from the centre . |
| 22 | By 1919 the number of soldiers began to decrease and the numbers of unemployed to increase . |
| 23 | Spurious preachers began to declare that the peasants were going about matters in a foolish way by sacrificing crippled infants . |
| 24 | And then I began to notice that the pictures on the walls were all prints of cavalry regiments , and a hatstand in a corner was n't really a hatstand but another empty shell case with a clutch of regimental flags standing in it . |
| 25 | Japan 's managers are beginning to notice that the politicians they have invested in no longer look so good outside their country ; on Russian aid and on international trade , they are always a step behind other rich countries . |
| 26 | However , in the investigators ' study of deaf mothers and their infants they have begun to see that the mothers create the crucial joint reference naturally but differently by altering their own sign language . |
| 27 | The face begins to swell and the eyes to protrude with the cough and then comes oedema between the eyelids and the eyebrows , even to the extent of a little water bag forming . |
| 28 | When the pot begins to boil and the bubbles rise quickly to the surface , it does n't take much to make it boil right over . |