Example sentences of "had begin [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , just as we had begun to enjoy the blissful peace and calm of spring , the wedding season reached its climax . |
| 2 | And tea , tea , tea with everything , just when she had begun to appreciate the sophistication of coffee . |
| 3 | It had begun to ascend the stairs … and then the weariness had overcome it . |
| 4 | I indicated a possible line of enquiry that would have been much more fruitful had he pursued it more vigorously and had begun to examine the role of fixed capital in the cyclical process . |
| 5 | For just as he had begun to survey the picture from a wholly different angle , just as he thought he espied a gap in the clouds that hitherto had masked the shafts of sunlight the switchboard-operator dashed any hope of such a breakthrough with the simple statement that she 'd known Theodore Kemp very well indeed . |
| 6 | By the end of the 1930s , however , the economic elite had begun to recolonise the political institutions created in the Depression . |
| 7 | The delay proved wise , since in the meantime pressure of world events had begun to draw the two sides closer together again . |
| 8 | There was something obscurely over-energized about her , quite unlike his old succulently lazy wife , and she had begun to clean the house as if it were a sin of the flesh . |
| 9 | By 1915 , Modigliani had begun to paint the portraits reproduced in every art book : Paul Guillaume , his dealer ; the painter Moise Kisling ; the fat child ; the bride and groom . |
| 10 | Yet he had been unable to deny , especially when alcohol had begun to leech the starch from his scholarly brain , that her avid interest in the distant doings of Everett , Morpurgo and the Tyrrell Society was inexplicable , unless it constituted a cause corresponding in some way to the effect of her disappearance . |
| 11 | Patches of ice and snow had begun to fill the crack in the ground . |
| 12 | Although some well publicized scandals had begun to undermine the respect which the police still generally enjoyed , the majority recommended no fundamental change , contenting themselves with drawing attention to : |
| 13 | Although remote rural areas remained unaffected , by the middle of the seventeenth century the rebirth of classicism had begun to transform the face of England . |
| 14 | The CNAA , he and others believed , had made great progress in improving the standards of business studies , and had begun to do the same for management studies , but ‘ the job of improving management studies has hardly begun . |
| 15 | However the ETUC had begun to press the need for the development of an active social policy in the late 1960s , and in response the first Quadripartite Conference , involving representatives of the Commission , Ministers of Labour , employers and employees , was held in Luxembourg in 1970 . |
| 16 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 17 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 18 | He spent his nights with Taheb , but these days he had begun to notice the glances the servants gave him , and made excuses when she wanted him to join her dinner guests . |
| 19 | This was especially noticeable amongst younger Conservatives in the Commons , and amongst the life peers who had begun to join the Upper House in increasing numbers since the Life Peerages Act in 1958 . |
| 20 | Though most male industrial sociologists avoided issues concerning women , a few men had begun to research the role of women in trade unions . |
| 21 | It was only then that evil men had begun to disturb the ancient arrangements which had the stamp of Gregory 's authority . |
| 22 | In any event , she had begun to like the idea of a secret . |
| 23 | She had begun to like the gardens , and the robin , and Martha and Dickon and their mother . |
| 24 | By the 1990s the change to the meritocrats had begun to affect the highest levels of the party . |
| 25 | Once I had begun to reap the benefits from my new system , I decided to enlarge on it and make it work even harder for me . |
| 26 | Humanity had begun to chart the universe and impose its own blinkered logic upon it . |
| 27 | They drove towards Ashdown Forest , and even before they had found a suitable place to stop , Charlotte had begun to recount the events of the past week in such detail that it was obvious she was holding nothing back . |
| 28 | A decade later , society had begun to sense the triviality of this approach — ‘ splitting pubic hairs ’ , as the BBFC described it . |
| 29 | In the meantime , Castro had begun to jettison the middle class and to cultivate support among the peasantry , workers and students through the use of nationalistic and class appeals . |
| 30 | Acknowledging the dismal state of the economy , the government had begun to open the door to some foreign investors , mostly those of Albanian origin , to help in the construction of hotels and to sell key consumer items with permission to export profits through barter . |