Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A few rich families began to emerge at the top of such societies and the numbers of poor cottagers grew significantly , but the old-established middling families long remained the backbone of many a rural community . |
| 32 | In the ACCs , the money supply began to accelerate at the beginning of 1970 . |
| 33 | One after another I picked up other stones and began to marvel at the diversity and beauty of them , that I had never noticed before . |
| 34 | Later , after I had qualified as a teacher and got married , I began to study at the university , teaching at a school during the day . |
| 35 | The little man began to kick at the tentacle in fury . |
| 36 | In his Sonnets Shakespeare achieved the rather remarkable feat of turning to new and individual ends a genre that had flourished throughout Europe for several centuries and was in effect beginning to die at the time when he wrote , in the mid 1590s . |
| 37 | A tiny weeny hint of a plan began to tinkle at the back of my brain like a triangle at the back of an orchestra . |
| 38 | Then he began to hack at the door-frame . |
| 39 | And when she thought it was about to finish , the whip began to flick at the pegs . |
| 40 | No doubt their slowness , coupled with the initial inertia of the judges , meant that the exhibition had to remain intact , seriously hampering preparations for the exhibition of models for the Wellington monument which began to arrive at the hall the day after the Government Offices exhibition closed . |
| 41 | The squabbling became more bitter , and the adults began to snap at the children . |
| 42 | ‘ Come on , ’ said Jimmy , and began to tug at the cabinet again . |
| 43 | Carefully , almost lovingly , he pulled the instrument across his knees and began to pluck at the strings with a plectrum fashioned from tortoise-shell . |
| 44 | These changes , which were just beginning to develop at the end of Marx 's life have thrown into question much of this original Marxist theory and account for the modern debate about whether or not the capitalist state is always ( or ever ) an instrument which defends the interests of the ruling class in a repressive way . |
| 45 | Recovering , Emmie seized the thin old hearthrug and began to beat at the flames . |
| 46 | ‘ That was stupid , ’ she added , beginning to tremble at the thought of what she had done . |
| 47 | Concern about the employment effects of new technology began to re-emerge at the end of the 1970s . |
| 48 | Around noon , people began to congregate at the Cross Tree on the green , where all the village children were the recipients of the sausage rolls , cakes and other goodies that had been collected . |
| 49 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 50 | The action in London had an immediate effect elsewhere as crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 51 | The action taken in London had an immediate affect elsewhere as ambulance crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 52 | The action taken in London had an immediate affect elsewhere as ambulance crews began to protest at the Government 's intervention . |
| 53 | The cracks were already beginning to show at the moment of their greatest triumph . |
| 54 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 55 | Again in 1960 , the EEC had begun to look at the problem of discrimination in transport , and in 1961 a Monetary Committee was established , as well as one charged with examining trade cycle policy . |
| 56 | Signs of the tenacious Selina ambition had already begun to show at the age of 13 when she secured her first job on the Darlington and Stockton Times . |
| 57 | Such dramatic attempts at direct action were not the only ways in which people had begun to protest at the development of nuclear power . |
| 58 | For example , when she accompanies the boys on an illicit night-time visit to the woods in order to retrieve the gun from the crashed aeroplane , she drops the torch , breaks it ( having previously failed to hold it straight ) , and begins to cry at the thought of dead bodies . |
| 59 | Uterine contractions continue for a few days after birth ( they are often particularly evident when the child begins to suck at the nipple ) . |
| 60 | Any time that a wing begins to drop at a stall it is the beginning of a possible spin , but the spin can only develop if the wing is kept stalled and the glider is allowed to continue to yaw . |