Example sentences of "begin [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then whoever it was began thumping on the knocker with renewed force , and Jessamy forgot all about being cautious . |
| 2 | No one could begin to agree on the answer . |
| 3 | It 's only after I 've mastered the basic moves that I can begin to concentrate on the emotions . ’ |
| 4 | This could explain why some babies only have colic in the evening , when the morning feed reaches the intestines and the bacteria that live there begin to feed on the undigested lactose . |
| 5 | But the 1970s also saw another issue begin to emerge on the agenda of the expanding British nuclear industry . |
| 6 | When the oratory is finished the ladies begin dancing on the floor of the arena ; after some time the Ngwazi descends to join the dancing , fly whisk waving merrily , and for at least an hour joins in the celebration . |
| 7 | Very frequently counsel will only begin to prepare on the night before the case is to be heard and will only meet with the client on the morning of the hearing . |
| 8 | But after a while she wanted a change from her routine and began to go on the weekly trips regularly . |
| 9 | As we crossed ground that became increasingly boggy , the vegetation increasingly salt-spattered and sparse , Tony began to enthuse on the likelihood of our seeing geese and red-necked phalaropes . |
| 10 | ‘ Police began firing on the trapped mass of people . |
| 11 | In 1962 the International Situationists began to impinge on the wilder fringes of Gallic politics , with the publication of Raoul Vaneigem 's Totality For Kids . |
| 12 | The sun sank lower on my left and the blue shadows of dusk began gathering on the pines and firs and creeping in among the sapling branches and the alders . |
| 13 | Then blood began to splatter on the glass from Pearce 's open mouth . |
| 14 | Soft light beginning to shimmer on the still water . |
| 15 | A few neon signs are beginning to appear on the larger buildings advertising the usual Western wares such as Levi jeans . |
| 16 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 17 | The bookshop was still open , and now , in addition to the paperbacks , the little magazines , and the Village Voice , the new wave of American papers was beginning to appear on the shelves . |
| 18 | The child was only freed from a fume-filled car when her frantic mother began knocking on the locked garage door . |
| 19 | Besides , it took time to get the formula right ; one dose began to work on the notes alter only 24 hours . |
| 20 | He began to work on the body , aiming for the solar plexus all the time . |
| 21 | Eventually he shrugged , drew out his skeleton-key pouch and began to work on the lock . |
| 22 | Beginning in September they began to work on the current German and Austrian week ( 17 to 21 May ) searching for consignments spanning the centuries and media . |
| 23 | Having decided that the vantage point for the watercolour in Figure 1 was the right one I then began to work on the overall design of the final work . |
| 24 | I began to work on the dog with all I had . |
| 25 | Several systems of computer enhancement and image analysis which can be used with a petrographic microscope are beginning to come on the market and promise relative ease of modal composition evaluation . |
| 26 | A little calmer , I began to write on the ground with the stick , ‘ Howard is a nut ’ , but was distracted by a tiny blue van in the south and was determined not to let it go by . |
| 27 | But even as he at last turned and , more like a conjurer than ever , whipped the cloth from the object on the table , which turned out to be a saucepan containing water scooped from the shattered font , the first heavy drops began to drum on the altar table ; and while the Padre was saying : " Hope Mary Ellen , I baptize thee In the name of the Father and of the Son , and of the Holy Ghost , Amen , " the Collector , forgetting that he had only just renounced an interest in the vain pomp and glory of the world , thought crossly : " That wo n't do the Louis XVI table any good at all . " |
| 28 | However , even when the dinner was over , their ‘ guests ’ showed no sign of leaving , at which point the Emperor began to pull on the ends of his moustache — one of the few signs of irritation he ever allowed himself . |
| 29 | Miguel slipped off his casual shoes and began to pull on the black cuban-heeled boots he picked up from the floor . |
| 30 | I wanted to put it to my mouth and eat it but as I watched , small dark spots began to appear on the surface . |