Example sentences of "began [to-vb] [adv] [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the rope began to swing backwards and forwards . |
| 2 | I could n't understand what was happening to me and I began to sink deeper and deeper into the pit . |
| 3 | Spurts of flame began to flicker here and there and presently leapt up to redden the fringes of the great smoke cloud which hung above them .... |
| 4 | The arable/pastoral boundary also began to creep northwards and westwards as a result of more land being brought into arable cultivation so that counties like Nottinghamshire , Northamptonshire , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Hampshire recorded some of the highest increases . |
| 5 | The Mercedes began to purr softly and then swept powerfully away into the streets of Amsterdam . |
| 6 | However , he did not allow her to become too swamped with nervous , trembling uncertainty , as he began to talk calmly and reasonably about his brother 's future life in America , describing some of the amusing mistakes he himself had made in assuming that the English and the Americans spoke the same language — when , in fact , so many words had different meanings . |
| 7 | St Ives began to pace backwards and forwards , watching himself in the mirror and pulling in his stomach . |
| 8 | Suddenly the sequence was interrupted by a crash , an oath and an answering oath , under cover of which Amiss began to climb silently and wearily up the next staircase . |
| 9 | Towards the late afternoon , exhausted by its own violence , it began to die slowly and soon the ‘ great noise for nothing ’ became a gasping puff , The doors were opened and we stared at the drifts of dust which had banked against houses and cars in much the same way that snow drifts against walls and trees . |
| 10 | His hand began to lift gently and slowly from his pocket . |
| 11 | Rose began to rub faster and faster and started to pull down her knickers with her free hand . |
| 12 | Then he began to move slowly and carefully past the table , on the opposite side to Moore . |
| 13 | When in the late 1960s wages and unemployment began to move together and then to accelerate rapidly the Phillips curve became somewhat discredited , despite various theoretical attempts made to rescue it . |
| 14 | The flowers grew , and he began to feel safer and more confident . |
| 15 | After a long series of preliminary earthquakes , a circular area of ground began to rise slowly and steadily in January 1944 ; by April the area affected was three kilometres across , and had gone up fifteen metres ; by June it had gone up fifty metres , and had taken the village of Fukaba and all its inhabitants with it . |