Example sentences of "began to take [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A success both in front of the box and on the critics ' pages CHANCER created a vogue out of a rogue — the identity of Stephen Crane ( Clive Owen 's role ) catching the attention of the country and reflecting the social changes in the early 90's as the enterprise culture began to take a tumble . |
| 2 | But the position began to alter after the General Strike , when the trade unions began to take a more dominant role in Labour politics . |
| 3 | Art also began to take a distinctive style and many surviving examples combine elements of subtlety , barbaric splendour and beauty . |
| 4 | However , things began to take a downward turn in 1923/4 ; and Young Buffalo was taking to the firewater . |
| 5 | Upon leaving the Institution , he was apprenticed to a bookbinder but this did not satisfy his ambitions , and he began to take a leading part in the affairs of the deaf . |
| 6 | It was in 1975 , when she moved to the depths of the countryside in the south of France , that life and painting began to take a different shape . |
| 7 | Eventually , some of those activists began to take a wider perspective . |
| 8 | Interviews began to take a more lively , if still far from inquisitorial slant . |
| 9 | The curriculum in secondary schools also began to take a predictable shape , mathematics , English , RE and PE for all plus a ‘ choice ’ from six option columns . |
| 10 | As he spoke he began to take a backward step , and for an instant Gentle 's dizzied brain almost thought it possible the man would retreat into nothingness ; be proved spirit rather than substance . |
| 11 | Theology began to take a direction that Pius XII found uncomfortable . |
| 12 | He began to take a liking to John Lydon , who beneath the carefully cultivated exterior of ennui , Branson recognised as being extremely bright , ‘ if rather lazy ’ . |
| 13 | Russia under Peter the Great and Catherine began to take a major part in the affairs of Europe . |
| 14 | When she was thirteen , Gerry , who was her sister Rosie 's boyfriend at the time , began to take a strong interest in her . |
| 15 | It was perhaps above all because of this disenchanting experience that the USSR , under Gorbachev 's leadership , began to take a more distanced view of the future development of Third World states . |
| 16 | She began to take a different route so that she approached her home from the other end of Magdalen Street and avoided a meeting with John . |
| 17 | He rebelled early in his career against the constricting standards of the Victorian era and while still in his teens began to take a passionate interest in Welsh poetry . |
| 18 | With the proclamation of the principle of conservation of energy by Helmholtz in Berlin from 1847 and then in a public lecture delivered at Königsberg on 7 February 1854 , the whole range of physical sciences began to take a new shape . |
| 19 | " Through a peculiar accident , I began to take a passionate interest in music in my ninth year and even started composing immediately . " |
| 20 | But the results were good ; people praised her cooking lavishly , and she began to take a pride in doing it well . |
| 21 | She sizzled and singed , then the fire began to take a hold and flames leapt across her skin . |
| 22 | Even in the 1660s Charles II had been complaining in London that his correspondence with his sister , the Duchess of Orleans , was being regularly opened in the French post , while from about 1748 Louis XV himself began to take a good deal of interest in work of this kind . |
| 23 | I started to read newspapers and magazines more , and , for just about the first time in my life , I began to take an interest in current affairs . |
| 24 | Coming to London as a young clerk attached to the Board of Trade , it was not long before he began to take an interest in political affairs , and his remarkable gift for public speaking was developed at the old Battersea Parliament , to which belonged many men who have since played important roles in public life … including Stanley ( now Lord ) Buckmaster , John Burns and Horatio Bottomley … . |
| 25 | She began to take an interest in the Sleuthing Committee . |
| 26 | Minton began to take an interest in this working-class lad with his Italian ice-cream-seller looks , sunny character and ebullient gregariousness . |
| 27 | ‘ It moves for me by contrasts , ’ he said , and now he began to take an interest in , even to listen to , what he himself was saying . |
| 28 | And I gets this one out and I 'm reading through it and I looks at the name John , and then I began to take an interest in it and , here I discovered that my grandfather and my great grandfather that 's like my grandfather and my grandmother 's father |
| 29 | Some of the secondary girls considered such goings on beneath their dignity but it was n't long before they began to take an interest and help out in the " Ox-farm " . |
| 30 | And for another thing , he began to take an interest in me just when I was on the rebound from a very unhappy love affair — the kind of let-down that alters not just your life but even your nature . |