Example sentences of "had begun [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Launching International Literacy Year 1990 , UNESCO Director General said that the absolute number of illiterates had begun to decline for the first time in history . |
| 2 | Polisario announced that its forces had begun to relocate in the assembly areas allocated to them for the period of the ceasefire . |
| 3 | Gebrec stared coldly back at him and Melissa sensed that they were on the verge of a confrontation , but Bonard 's attention was diverted by the approach of the members of his class , who had begun to emerge from the house . |
| 4 | When he was at home he had begun living at the School , where he boarded up the broken windows and had the chimneys cleaned . |
| 5 | His legs had buckled and knocked , a comic effect , and he 'd gone down too soon for his partner to see the ugly roundel that had begun to form on the white tennis shirt . |
| 6 | His nose had begun to shine in the heat , but his eyes were wide open and calculating . |
| 7 | Stefan had begun haemorrhaging in the night . |
| 8 | No mean problem , this , in a time largely deafened to such sober music , and were it not for the incomparable examples of Spenser and Milton , he might finally have despaired ; but what they in their day had achieved for their grave themes ought ( he had long believed ) to be possible for the richer store of myth and symbol at his disposal ; and now the lines had begun to move with the majesty he desired . |
| 9 | More of his allies had begun to arrive on the scene . |
| 10 | Argument when the urban sprawl of Belfast had begun to encroach on the ‘ plain of the lambs ’ . |
| 11 | It had begun to seem like the ideas he 'd had when he was younger , that you worked out in school and at night in bed , that seemed so easy , then when it carne to it did n't work out . |
| 12 | After paying for her younger sister 's lavish wedding last autumn he had begun saving for the world cruise he had promised her mother for their thirtieth wedding anniversary . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , even beyond the 1840s , when the novel had begun to venture into the houses of the poor , rural interiors are almost invariably pleasant ; it is those in towns that more often reveal indigence and misery . |
| 14 | It was asked , when the estate had been entered in accordance with the second will , whether the debtors who had been released in the first will could secure that they should be released even from debt which they had begun to owe after the first will , and if , should the heirs try to sue for it , they could be debarred by a defence of bad faith . |
| 15 | The American boy had begun to fall under the spell of the old Annamese city soon after crossing the lotus-choked moat into the Kinh Thanh , or Capital City , the first of three concentric " cities " within the citadel modeled on the ancient walled quarters of Peking . |
| 16 | This seems to be a deliberate compliment by Shakespeare to James the First ( of England ) and Sixth ( of Scotland ) , who had begun to touch for the ‘ king 's evil ’ or scrofula by 1606 . |
| 17 | It must have been nearly three months before I heard from Mrs Ainsworth , and in fact I had begun to wonder at the bassets ' long symptomless run when she came on the phone . |
| 18 | Something behind it prevented it from fully opening and a dark , viscous substance that in the subdued light looked like a patch of oil was spreading from an invisible source and had begun soaking into the carpet . |
| 19 | Joseph 's melancholy had begun to evaporate for the first time since leaving the hunting camp as the goateed mandarin , walking ponderously beside him in ceremonial boots , reeled off the mystical-sounding names of the shimmering buildings : the Can-Chanh , the Great Mansion the Palace of the Spirits of the Six Emperors … the Temple of Generations … the Halls of the Splendours and the Moon and the Glory of the Sun — and most mysterious of all to his young impressionable mind , the guarded heart of the citadel , the Tu Cam Thanh , the Purple Forbidden City named after the Purple or Pole Star , the symbolic ruler of the heavens . |
| 20 | Or was it the heavy rain slapping against the windows , the wind 's eerie message as it whistled down the chimney and flickered at the flames that had begun to lick about the new-laid logs ? |
| 21 | He had begun to tremble at the very thought . |
| 22 | Documents recently released by Birmingham LEA also reveal the degree of teacher and local authority hostility to the growing black presence in the schools , and the caricatures that had begun to circulate around the lifestyles and ‘ racial character ’ of ‘ Asia tics ’ and ‘ West Indians ’ . |
| 23 | The princes had begun to look towards the young Frederick , king of Sicily and Henry VI 's heir . |
| 24 | Again in 1960 , the EEC had begun to look at the problem of discrimination in transport , and in 1961 a Monetary Committee was established , as well as one charged with examining trade cycle policy . |
| 25 | ‘ People had begun to look on the Lithuanian party as the servile agent , even the secret agent , of the Soviet Communist Party . ’ |
| 26 | Blood had begun to run into the corner of his eye and he blinked to try and clear his vision . |
| 27 | Meanwhile disturbing evidence had begun to accumulate about the relatively poor performance of children of Afro-Caribbean and Asian origin in schools ( see Tomlinson , 1983 , pp. 27–59 for a useful review ) . |
| 28 | The previous autumn , the muggy monsoon heat had begun to diminish on the very day following the festival of Dusshera . |
| 29 | A bank of purple neons had begun to flash on the dashboard . |
| 30 | Such dramatic attempts at direct action were not the only ways in which people had begun to protest at the development of nuclear power . |