Example sentences of "was [adv] begin [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd been a fault in her original logic which he 'd seized upon , but she was already beginning to see the fallacy . |
| 2 | Sandison was already beginning to feel the effects of the contents of Franco 's special bottle , retrieved as on the day before from the most inaccessible shelf in the tiny , cluttered bar . |
| 3 | The Guatemalan army was launching a scorched earth policy , which laid waste to hundreds of Indian villages ; in El Salvador , the death squads were dumping a thousand bodies a month on the streets ; in Nicaragua , the Contra war was just beginning to put the Sandinista revolution into reverse . |
| 4 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 5 | He was a great player , and he was just beginning to get the notoriety that he really deserved when he had his terrible car accident . ’ |
| 6 | I was just beginning to understand the power of the mind . |
| 7 | An optimistic theory of evolutionary progress was surreptitiously beginning to replace the pessimistic doctrine of universal decay . |
| 8 | She was also beginning to see the lie of the land with her in-laws . |
| 9 | Although Maidstone was now beginning to display the fact that he was far from sober — his walk was a little unsteady and one or two of his words did not come out exactly right — the visit to the hatshop passed off without any untoward incident . |
| 10 | But it was now beginning to have the desired effect , as the newcomers started to participate . |
| 11 | By this time she was consciously beginning to play the role that most appealed to her ironic sense of self-awareness : the rather eccentric and certainly unorthodox grand old lady of her native Swansea , whose celebrated love of a good cigar , smoked in public , was matched at a less superficial level by deep attachment to the uncompromising principles instilled into her by her Quaker family background . |