Example sentences of "it begin [to-vb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It began to sound more serious than she had realised . |
| 2 | It began to get quite hot so we sat on a mossy bank and shared an orange . |
| 3 | While the bank prospered in Birmingham , it was an insignificant feature of Britain 's financial world until the 1880s , when it began to buy up other institutions rapidly . |
| 4 | It was alright for a few weeks and then it began to look very anaemic and sorry for itself . |
| 5 | And it began to look very sick and sorry for itself . |
| 6 | Steven Marcus has suggested that : ‘ Pornography , in the sense that we understand it today , is a historical phenomenon ; it begins to exist significantly some time during the middle of the eighteenth century , and flourishes steadily — though with periodic fluctuations in intensity — throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . ’ |
| 7 | It begins to get very cold and hats and pogies appear but we press on and soon after midnight portage Marlow ; a hundred yards downstream we find the campsite and land . |
| 8 | Well Fred 's got my Graham Thomas because it really is a superb rose but as well as that I would go for hybrid musk and I think of all the hybrid musk , my favourite is Felicia because of that silvery pink , lovely double shaped flower and that is very very heavily scented and I would have to have the bourbon rose the th the double white creamy white bourbon rose , if , you could almost eat that , that wo n't get more than about six foot and you can prune it to keep it in shape a bit if it begins to get too straggly . |