Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How on earth could she even begin to answer that question ? |
| 2 | She could n't even begin to imagine that amount of money . |
| 3 | Now , along with your helpers , begin to raise that cone of light , little by little , by focusing upon it and feeling your desire . |
| 4 | ‘ That does n't mean I think all men are rapists but … it means a significant proportion of the men around us in that situation of social breakdown would rape and I ca n't even begin to digest that notion . ’ |
| 5 | Then he began to see that friendship and love , shown to our marriage partner , our friends and to God himself , are ultimately the most important dimensions of life . |
| 6 | A lot of people have made that mistake and the kids think ‘ Hang on a minute , we 're just beginning to like that stuff ’ , then you change to something completely different . |
| 7 | With the improvement of transport during the nineteenth century , building materials were more frequently carried over greater distances , and soon after the opening of railways houses began to lose that harmony with the countryside so characteristic of the older cottages . |
| 8 | Perhaps the multitude of coal-pits near the Tyne were beginning to wear that look , and Camden observed in the 1580s that Sussex ‘ is full of iron mines , all over it ; for the casting of which there are furnaces up and down the country , and abundance of wood is yearly spent ; many streams are drawn into one channel , and a great deal of meadow ground is turned into ponds and pools for the driving mills by the flashes , which , beating with hammers upon the iron , fill the neighbourhood round about it , night and day with continual noise . ’ |
| 9 | As the 1960s went by , cynics began to observe that barrack building in an overseas territory was a sure sign that it would soon be granted its independence ! |
| 10 | Soviet officials began to accept that ASEAN was not an American- or Western-controlled body , although they remained ambivalent about the developing emphasis on regional political cooperation within ASEAN . |
| 11 | At the same time , medical and social science research began to indicate that retirement itself had detrimental effects . |
| 12 | At the same time , people began to discover that irradiation not only arrests the growth of some cancers , but can have the opposite effect and generate new cancers in tissues which received excessive exposure . |
| 13 | Or perhaps Molly 's departure had in fact sown the seed of restlessness in her and the prospect of others — especially her zeide — emigrating to Palestine was beginning to nourish that seed and make it grow . |
| 14 | Many local-government officers experiencing the change brought about by recent legislation , are now beginning to reflect that culture . |
| 15 | Governments ' policies are beginning to reflect that fact . |
| 16 | The second LP , 1988 's ‘ In Gorbachev We trust ’ , saw the Shamen absorbing hip hop and house beats , beginning to explore that year 's mushrooming acid club scene . |
| 17 | The second LP , 1988 's ‘ In Gorbachev We trust ’ , saw the Shamen absorbing hip hop and house beats , beginning to explore that year 's mushrooming acid club scene . |
| 18 | The equal opportunity for social mobility was a commonplace in the public mind but pressure of numbers began to render that equality suspect , since it seemed unequal in fact . |
| 19 | From that time on , she began to avoid that gesture ( it is not easy to break the habit of gestures altogether ) . |
| 20 | So just at the last moment as the ladder began to sweep that way I just pushed as er hard as I could in the air , and the wardrobe flew up into the air in that direction , the ladder flew off in that direction , I flew off in this direction |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There is no local opposition to trust status because people are beginning to understand that trust status means the devolution or delegation of decision-making power to those who are in the best position to make the decisions about how local hospitals should be run . |
| 23 | I wish I thought that his colleagues were beginning to share that idea — perhaps we have an alliance here . |
| 24 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 25 | Long John began to sing that song I knew so well : |
| 26 | ‘ Good , I 'm glad you 're beginning to appreciate that fact ! ’ |
| 27 | C c can you gi give me some clue now a about w when the penny began to drop that trouble was going to g g going to start ? |
| 28 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 29 | Right , and are you beginning to say that production is coming to be a more important criteria now ? |
| 30 | I 'm beginning to need that drink . ’ |