Example sentences of "was begin [verb] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was beginning to respond to the tenderness of his fingers playing up and down her spine . |
| 2 | Just as he was beginning to adapt to the fact that there were Muslims — and that some of them were quite pleasant — it turned out that there were as many strains of Muslim as there were of the virus responsible for the common cold . |
| 3 | The inclusion of half-a-dozen peers who held no significant office suggests that it was beginning to revert to the form of the 1520s , when the Council had included both office-holders and men whose political support was valuable to the Crown . |
| 4 | The sky was beginning to lighten to the east , streaks of day , as bright as magnesium flares , at the meeting point of sea and air set a fresh breeze stirring and whipped up a rhythm on the water 's surface . |
| 5 | Our earlier discussion had reached a satisfactory breaking-off point and his attention was beginning to wander to the outer office where pandemonium was on the point of breaking out . |