Example sentences of "it began [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It began to flow over the top . |
| 2 | Spurred by a sense of the growing opposition , especially after Chernobyl , it began to agitate at the grass roots . |
| 3 | It was poised there , a rosy ball , and then it began to dip below the rim of the land . |
| 4 | It was in attitudes to sex — and specifically male attitudes to women — that It began to argue with the outside world , and itself , almost from the beginning . |
| 5 | As foreseen by the dark clouds , it began to rain during the afternoon and by the time the headlights of Markby 's car illuminated the front windows of Rose Cottage , it was fairly tipping down . |
| 6 | Another Saturday came round with no prospect of a night off when it began to rain in the afternoon . |
| 7 | Slowly it began to dawn on the pair that nobody else could possibly represent their work . |
| 8 | It began to burrow towards the factory . |
| 9 | Simultaneously with doing the evening performances — two on Saturday , at five and eight — he was recording episodes of Beyond Our Ken and making the latest ‘ Carry On ’ film — Carry On Constable- and it began to show with the way Pieces of Eight proceeded . |
| 10 | It began to run over the main deck and the crew hurried off to shelter in the accommodation . |
| 11 | It began to ring at the other end . |
| 12 | In May it was announced that the fleet name ‘ London TransporT ’ would be used and it began to appear on the waist panels of cars as repainted . |