Example sentences of "had begun [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and Antonietta had begun to talk about fashion and materials and had moved on to curtains when Gennaro returned . |
| 2 | Not long ago she had begun to talk of life not being worth living again and she had demanded that Harry should tell her , once and for all , why it was worth living . |
| 3 | Moreover , it was argued that contractionary policies introduced during boom periods to reduce the growth in imports and inflationary pressures had their full effect when the economy had begun to move into recession . |
| 4 | Tutilo 's habit shimmered about the shoulders with the soft and soundless rain of Spring , which had begun to fall in mid-evening , his curls were damp and ruffled , and the hand he passed across his forehead to brush them back left a dark smear behind . |
| 5 | I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night . |
| 6 | She had begun to sweat with discomfort . |
| 7 | In the earlier years of living with her he had sometimes left her a note speared on the kitchen tap before he went out for his walk — stirred and perhaps even drawn by the sight of her plain , flushed face in bed , which had begun to acquire in sleep a look of distress and disappointment . |
| 8 | Once she had thought he was coming in her direction and her heart had begun to pump with excitement but he had walked straight past , heading for the bar that was selling soft drinks only ( with a crate of beer hidden under the counter for the benefit of the band ) . |
| 9 | He believed the crofters would desert their thatched houses and unprofitable holdings to occupy the comfortable cottages he had begun to build in town . |
| 10 | But writing now was not easy for him : he had begun to suffer with arthritis in the year following his retirement , and had had to give up his violin owing to lack of flexibility of his fingers , and as the condition developed , he found writing more and more difficult . |
| 11 | Windmills , which had begun to come into existence during the 16th century were by now a common sight throughout the Lothians . |
| 12 | The WLM had begun to come of age . |
| 13 | And then , as though it had been waiting there to be born , a plan had begun to come to life in her mind . |
| 14 | She had already met this young man , when he had last come to pay his rent , and found him startlingly different from the Welsh boys of her acquaintance — a big , silent boy with disillusioned , almond-shaped eyes sunk above high cheek bones , a boy who had stared unblinkingly at her until she had begun to blush with embarrassment , so that she had felt stripped , not only physically but mentally as well . |
| 15 | Spiro was earning £13,000 a month but had begun to slip into debt . |
| 16 | He indicated a diagnostic panel , where several red lights had begun to blink in confirmation of his words . |
| 17 | The other teacher had begun to experiment with self-assessment , especially in relation to homework assignments : |