Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] and the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If these are damaged , the cells begin to separate and the surface of the hair becomes rough , dull and prone to tangles . |
| 2 | I felt my eyelids begin to droop and the warmth of the room slowly turning into a soft buzz in my head , the sort of sound which so often precedes the sudden slip into sleep itself . |
| 3 | It drifted and swirled about him , making him peaceful and tired , until his sense of loss began to go and the night was no longer awesome , for he had the protection of a Callanish eagle near him , and that gave him peace to rest and sleep at last … |
| 4 | However , as the project came to a close the total budget provided in the grant for support workers began to dwindle and the development officers were instructed to make careful calculations of their expenditure in order not to exceed the total available . |
| 5 | Managers came and went at an alarming rate ; there was Board Room take-over ; gates began to dwindle and the Palace were candidates for relegation from well before Christmas . |
| 6 | When the sun began to sink and the evening grew cold , they stripped their clothes from the thorn trees , collected together their pans and bamboo brooms and set out across the bridge for home . |
| 7 | Warm rain began to fall and the land came to life . |
| 8 | Jess began to shake and the sobs she 'd encouraged broke out with fresh vigour and real conviction . |
| 9 | As she trudged awkwardly up the valley road her feet began to sweat and the toes rubbed painfully against each other . |
| 10 | As the Oaks moved again , the wounds yawned and slowly , slowly , inch by terrible inch , they gaped wider and skin began to tear and the muscle and bone began to part with a sound that made Floy and Snodgrass both feel sick . |
| 11 | Towards the end of the century pornographic magazines , which extensively used the sexual content of cases with accompanying obscene prints , began to emerge and the number of these kinds of magazines increased appreciably after 1800 . |
| 12 | And now she concentrated the whole of her mind and her brain and her will up into her eyes and once again but much more quickly than before she felt the electricity gathering and the power was beginning to surge and the hotness was coming into the eyeballs , and then the millions of tiny invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out towards the glass , and without making any sound at all she kept on shouting inside her head for the glass to go over . |
| 13 | Soon the traffic began to thin and the road became a long straight fenland route with occasional trees and sporadic bungalows slipping into the dykes . |
| 14 | After a time Milhaez began to sing and the boat seemed to be carried upriver on his voice . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The slope down to Rock Creek began to steepen and the shops thinned out as they moved away from the centre . |
| 17 | By 1919 the number of soldiers began to decrease and the numbers of unemployed to increase . |
| 18 | Then the fingers began to move and the piano got louder and stopped with a final note as the hand fell on to the floor . |
| 19 | As Hazel still went up , the south wind began to blow and the June sunset reddened the sky to the zenith . |
| 20 | Two days dead , the body was beginning to putrefy and the stench made both Benjamin and myself gag . |
| 21 | The stomach had begun to swell and the chamber stank with the evil gases which emanated from it . |
| 22 | But by the time it was furnished , the wool-based economy had begun to collapse and the family could n't support the house . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The vegetation within , protected from the dry air , begins to decay and the mound starts to warm . |
| 25 | 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 . |