Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] on [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And as I watched him hurl handfuls of salt round the ring as a prelude to hurling handfuls of Japanese wrestler around the heads of the spectators , I could feel my heart begin to beat behind my nightie and the partisan words begin to form on my open lips : ‘ Tear ‘ is ‘ ead off , Sall ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | After suffering bulimia for 15 years she sought help because her children were beginning to comment on her abnormal eating habits . |
| 5 | Gradually it began to dawn on me that while in the celluloid world all things were possible , in the other world it was quite a different story . |
| 6 | At this stage , the Government began to retrench on its nuclear programmes . |
| 7 | During April the movement of magma within the volcano was indicated by a bulge which began to develop on its northeastern flank ; by 23 April this had grown to 100 m and was expanding at a daily rate of 1.5 m . |
| 8 | His hand was between her thighs , and his fingers played a sexy tune on her rapacious twat ; when the tips of his fingers began to dance on her sensitive clitoris , she could have screamed with delight . |
| 9 | However , it will also show how recent developments within the definition of the ‘ urban ’ , as it applies to consumption , are now indeed beginning to touch on our central concerns . |
| 10 | The delays and frustrating disappointments of trying to keep to an eighteen-month construction schedule in the Caribbean were beginning to tell on them all . |
| 11 | The small audience had begun to fidget on their rickety folded chairs . |
| 12 | Before the company begins to move on its new goodies , it has Open Interface version 2.1 to get out of the door . |