Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] into the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 AS A NEW GOVERNMENT attempts to reverse the problems of 100 years of economic decline and the faces of the previous decade begin to recede into the past , who now rules Britain ?
2 And as soon as we begin to enquire into the meaning of the term , we discover that it has been and still is understood in a variety of different ways , which may have a common core or root but are not identical .
3 The knee itself began to slide into the dark , smooth pastel paper on the wall ; smoothly and neatly .
4 He began to beat at his head with his gloved hands as his face began to sink into the floor .
5 One of Gilbert 's gloves flew off , and the next time his hand hit the floor it stuck and began to sink into the carpet pile .
6 Anton , the old répétiteur , even older than Busacher , sat down at the piano and the thin embarrassed voices began to tingle into the air , picking up a little courage as they went on .
7 By the time he wrote the survey quoted above , evolutionary morphology was beginning to fall into the background as new sciences such as genetics took over the forefront of scientific research .
8 The pirates began to jump into the hole , and to dig in the ground with their fingers .
9 Obviously he was then lucky that a lot of outstanding players began to come into the team at the same period , men like Richards , Greenidge , Roberts , Holding , Croft , Garner , and he had material of the highest class on which to work .
10 Radicals from across London , Britain , and Europe began to pour into the college to observe , participate , or make unsuccessful attempts to take the struggle into the correct channels .
11 Here I alighted and began to walk into the wood in search of something .
12 I felt the world beginning to drift into the distance again , but I knew what was happening this time and got my head down quickly .
13 As the ambulance left the scene , neighbours , who had been kept shut in their houses for two days , began to emerge into the sunshine .
14 Rainwater began to gush into the basement from around the fractured board .
15 Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book .
16 And she still remembered how , as the car began to climb into the lake land hills , she had seen her first mountain — a sharp blue crag that , outlined against the sky , had made her sit up and stare .
17 When the sound of high-flying aircraft began to soak into the atmosphere people stopped talking but looked more interested than afraid .
18 Once that information began to spread into the community the opposition began to crumble .
19 Although the first drops of water only officially began to trickle into the basin in 1975 , Rutland Water is already famous for its wildfowl numbers .
20 She began to relax into the massage almost immediately .
21 Although Gordonstoun and Australia had an effect on his character , it was at Cambridge that he began to develop into the man he now is .
22 When the Romans first began to expand into the Balkans in the third century BC , the area was inhabited by Thracian , Illyrian and Celtic tribes .
23 One by one some of Europe 's more unfancied golfers began to eat into the U.S. lead , courtesy of some dreadful American blunders on the final hole which brought back memories of the match at Muirfield Village two years before .
24 After the second or third year the principle of choice , concentration , and specialization began to bite into the curriculum .
25 I have now been here for over a week , and am beginning to get into the swing of things .
26 Rain began to blow into the patio .
27 Even before Curtis 's barked order of ‘ Get this fuckin' heap movin' ! ’ the alert driver had already flipped the car into gear and begun to swing into the traffic stream .
28 Nevertheless , even beyond the 1840s , when the novel had begun to venture into the houses of the poor , rural interiors are almost invariably pleasant ; it is those in towns that more often reveal indigence and misery .
29 Blood had begun to run into the corner of his eye and he blinked to try and clear his vision .
30 MR GIBBON points out ( HAS January 13 ) that the test question ( Echo January 7 ) for 14-year-olds shows the man has already stepped onto the first stair and begins to fall into the trap of talking about the man , when the question asks about the load !
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