Example sentences of "it begin [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | So once the Trust acquired the house it began to do a number of it began to do three things . |
2 | It began to glow red for overload . |
3 | It had seemed like madness before ; now it began to seem shameful . |
4 | It began to seem impossible that the rock , huge as it was , could contain this labyrinth they were treading . |
5 | Chatterjee wondered about this as it began to seem more than simply coincidence . |
6 | Five years ago , it began to give more autonomy to its parts subsidiary , Acustar . |
7 | Then it began to rain hard and I sheltered for a long time in a barn , but I could n't stay there all night so I just walked and got thoroughly soaked . |
8 | Once the process was completed , older boys , apprentice papermakers , came and dislodged the sheet , taking it away to the drying trestles , where it had to be carefully watched and removed after it had dried but before it began to turn yellow in the sun . |
9 | When their paths crossed years later at Manchester United , Morgan admits that he ‘ thought the world of The Doc ’ but slowly , bit by bit , it began to emerge that Docherty was mistreating some players and scheming against others . |
10 | One steel factory in Silesia found that it could no longer afford to make the heavily subsidised , high-quality steel it used to produce before the new budgetary regime , so it began to make smaller quantities of low-quality steel , which it found could be exported to Germany at a profit . |
11 | It began to get foggy , and finally Alec admitted honestly that he was lost . |
12 | As it began to get dark , we all settled around the guides ' fire , sharing the barbecued deer for supper . |
13 | I pottered on out there until it began to get dark . |
14 | ‘ Then it began to get easier . |
15 | Just before it began to get light , Liza Carrow , carrying a torch and with an old coat thrown over her nightdress , crept out of Four Winds and walked towards the cliff . |
16 | They were not in fact the same thing — they were two separate things — and up until this point , it seemed like it was all one thing — that MainMan and David were the same — but it began to become apparent that they were n't . |
17 | As the reorganised schools began to settle and establish themselves it began to become apparent that the curriculum , the vehicle for educational progress , needed to be reorganised also . |
18 | It is time that technical education remained not much more than a debating topic , although the Education Act 1918 , did make 14 the universal minimum leaving age and , far more controversial , it began to introduce compulsory part-time day continuation classes . |
19 | In 1739 , for example , when Lord Panmure held the Angus parliamentary seat , it began to appear likely that the Earl of Strathmore was contemplating a challenge to Panmure 's position in the county . |
20 | Then it began to throw small stones , covered in snow , at the fifth window . |
21 | As soon as a new relationship or job came along , it began to grow sour . |
22 | Marie and Bella sat on until the sun left the gardens and it began to grow cold . |
23 | Therefore we have a control mechanism to bring down blood-sugar level when it begins to reach unhealthy peaks . |
24 | The mere fact of having been cast in the role of daughter , daughter-in-law , son or son-in-law does not automatically endow any of us with the ability to play that part to perfection , particularly when it begins to need more than smiles and pleasantries at family gatherings , and demands qualities of patience , perseverance and insight , and the regular visiting of a lonely and possibly disabled old person . |
25 | If you count fathers as well , as of course you should , it begins to embrace most people . |
26 | Hence the individual soon knows , from this genetic information , what its form and structure is ( its morphology ) , and it begins to acquire behavioural characteristics . |
27 | The problem is that the movie is so desperate to make itself into a positive romance , ideal mutual learning process and overall success story that finally it begins to resemble one of those correspondence-school ads on the back of US comics : get some knowledge , triple your income , rise rapidly in your chosen field . |
28 | New events , new people are cropping up , and it begins to seem possible that life can go on , but people can still say wounding and painful things . |
29 | It begins to seem unlikely that there is any such thing as enjoyment . |
30 | If it begins to look doubtful that the site can be reached and the glider is down to 1,000 feet , it is time to select the best possible field within easy reach and to make a safe landing in it . |