Example sentences of "had begin [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had begun to paint some portraits with one eye ‘ blind ’ , the other seeing . |
| 2 | A whole range of material and cultural innovations in the late nineteenth century had begun to transform urban life . |
| 3 | If he , Jaq — being a child of genetically wholesome parents — had begun to shine this light too , might not something in the nature of the world of Xerxes Quintus itself be to blame ? |
| 4 | What emerged most interestingly from these interviews was the extent to which some of these teachers had begun to incorporate various kinds of pupil self-evaluation into their assessment procedures . |
| 5 | When Picasso 's art became truly Cubist , in 1909 , he had begun to see solid forms in a new pictorial way , without the aid of linear or mathematical perspective . |
| 6 | During the past three days of the voyage her first contact for many years with French life had begun to stir long-forgotten feelings in her . |
| 7 | The population of this district had not been previously deeply dissatisfied ; but it was natural that they should wish well to people of their own class , supposed to be fighting for higher wages ; and they presently heard with truth that several employers hereabouts had begun to promise higher payments under the dread of seeing the population armed against them . ’ |
| 8 | Although Thomas had begun to rub small fists into his eyes , he managed to stay awake while they ate omelettes in a local tavern . |
| 9 | After research had begun to throw some light on to the physics of plasmas , invention gave way to a more scientific approach . |
| 10 | At twenty-four weeks , Dr Greene had begun to make serial measurements of the foetal abdominal and head circumferences , which he would continue at two-week intervals . |
| 11 | Churchill had been the latest bone of contention , as he had begun to make public speeches which Chamberlain clearly found embarrassing . |
| 12 | Mrs Jobson 's 15-year-old son , Jonathan , had begun to suffer dizzy spells and extreme craving for chocolate — a symptom of people exposed to excessive insulin . |
| 13 | Jonathan told John Goldring , QC , prosecuting , that after her arrival he had begun to suffer dizzy spells and developed an addiction for chocolate . |
| 14 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 15 | He had begun to have wet dreams ; early in the morning , he would find his thighs soaked with semen beneath his nightshirt . |
| 16 | I had begun to desire some balance in my life and after that my socialising was toned down and my private moments stepped up . |
| 17 | There was also danger of assassination squads being sent to Morocco ; Iranian officials had begun to stay such things as that the Shah and his family would be " hunted down like Eichmann " . |
| 18 | I had begun to experience increasing difficulty with reading from about the age of thirteen . |
| 19 | The emperor had begun to think polytheistic cult a veneration of evil spirits and therefore perhaps a danger to his realm . |
| 20 | In the south of Russia radicals had begun to combine ideological propaganda with ‘ propaganda by deed ’ : terrorist attacks on officials . |
| 21 | Their children had begun to face racial abuse on the streets and in the schools . |
| 22 | In fact , the P.A. Consultants ' 1987 review of enterprise zones concluded that the capital allowances in the zones had begun to attract private finance capital to the north and north west , since incentives raise the yields to those levels required by the investors . |