Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] at [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Derain , although as early as 1904 he had executed a still life in which he seized in a more or less superficial way on some of the aspects of Cézanne 's art which were later to fascinate and influence the Cubists , did not begin to look at Cézanne really seriously until 1906 . |
| 2 | Even so , alarm bells are beginning to sound at Westminster . |
| 3 | The profits grew and the bank manager began to smile at Carrie whenever she paid in the weekly takings . |
| 4 | But it was only when Susato began to publish at Antwerp in 1543 that their songs appeared in quantity and it was Susato who really launched Crecquillon with a book of 36 chansons à 4 parties in 1543 , though he had published Crecquillon 's greatest hit , ‘ Ung gay bergier ’ , in a miscellaneous collection the year before . |
| 5 | People on passing boats began to shout at Lucenzo , waving him down , but he seemed not to notice . |
| 6 | However , a trickle of collectors and speculators began to arrive at Zborowski 's flat early in 1918 , buying up Modigliani 's oil paintings , worth millions of pounds today , for three or four hundred francs . |
| 7 | A vague suspicion began to tug at Benny 's mind , and she frowned in thought . |
| 8 | Greer wrote ‘ In bed with the English ’ which began to hint at Oz 's future development in its uncomplimentary analysis of the experience . |
| 9 | This one came just as eyelids were beginning to droop at Tynecastle on Saturday when Hearts and Hibs staged the latest in what has become a very long series of tedious confrontations . |
| 10 | Every year when the Nile began to rise at Cairo , a young virgin was dressed in bright apparel and thrown into the river . |
| 11 | Hungarians have begun to train at Sandhurst , Britain 's main officer-training college . |
| 12 | Yanto had already begun to laugh at Sooty 's serious face . |
| 13 | But a wind of change had already begun to blow at Newport Pagnell . |