Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] just begun [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |
| 2 | Bake for at least 1 hour or until the cake has just begun to shrink from sides of tin and is springy to the touch — a skewer inserted into the centre should come out clean . |
| 3 | And Lucy walked out of his office , and out of the hotel , and into the night where a soft winter rain had just begun to fall . |
| 4 | The surface had just begun to shimmer in the light when Mrs Rosalia Alderley came out through the French windows of the ballroom and stopped , staring in thunderstruck amazement . |
| 5 | As she dragged Susan 's limp form away from the fire , she noticed with one part of her brain that a sheet of paper had just begun to burn . |
| 6 | The timer on my cooker has just begun to bleep , so I 'd better go and attend to the dinner . |
| 7 | The class had just begun to read the play which I had chosen when at 11am the radio relay came to life with an announcer saying : This is London ’ , followed by the announcement that the King had died in the early hours of the morning and proclaiming the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the throne , ’ recalls Mr Dowling of Staindrop Drive , Middlesbrough . |