Example sentences of "began [to-vb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then raindrops began to fall in the sand all around him . |
| 2 | They were running through thickly forested country , and tension began to mount in the car . |
| 3 | The very day that we began to meet in the community centre where we are based , three mothers with their children began to attend . |
| 4 | Then he began to tumble in the air and reality took over . |
| 5 | Rumours began to appear in the press concerning differences between the American State and War departments over policy regarding Japan . |
| 6 | Other executive agents began to appear in the course of the sixteenth century . |
| 7 | LASMO Oilers ' captain , Peter Coote from graphics , explained : ‘ The problem was that bubbles began to appear in the ice — one of the refrigerant pipes had leaked or burst . |
| 8 | Soon , and no doubt inevitably , some more substantial specks of cloud began to appear in the sky . |
| 9 | When , therefore , the government obliged the gentry to put their views on paper , chinks began to appear in the armour of gentry intransigence . |
| 10 | His poetry began to appear in the Marlburian in 1912 , influenced by John Masefield [ q.v. ] and by the Wiltshire downs , with their irresistible evocation of the past . |
| 11 | Shortly thereafter cracks began to appear in the house both internally and externally and the purchaser had to have the house underpinned at a cost of £1,444 and had obtained estimates of between £1,500 and 12,000 for repairs to the superstructure . |
| 12 | The platform may have been left , although there is no indication that it was used until Stretford Bridge began to appear in the timetable as a request stop in 1890 . |
| 13 | Nikolai Pomialovskii 's fictional Seminary Sketches , which began to appear in The Contemporary in mid-1862 , put part of the case for church reform to a wider public . |
| 14 | So Montblanc began to specialize in the Safety pen , in which the whole nib section could be screwed back into the barrel , thereby sealing the ink container like a cork in a bottle . |
| 15 | But she refused , and began to walk in the direction of Trantridge . |
| 16 | He turned away from her and began to walk in the direction of the house , and after a moment 's hesitation she followed . |
| 17 | Almost simultaneously , under Ferdinand of Aragon , Miguel Perez de Alamàn began to specialise in the control and direction of relations with other states in a way which made him probably the nearest approach to a minister of foreign affairs hitherto seen anywhere in Europe . |
| 18 | Although their favourite dog is possibly the Bouvier des Flandres , real interest began to grow in the Rottweiler in the 1960s . |
| 19 | He seems to have enjoyed the patronage of influential people , who probably subsidized the books he began to publish in the Armada year of 1588 . |
| 20 | And so a sort of small welfare rights group began to form in the dayroom . |
| 21 | I felt revolted by them and began to sleep in the hall , dragging a pillow and a wool blanket off the bed and leaving the room to them , in the hope that they would understand my anger , that they would no longer stay till the early hours of the morning , stepping over me as I lay asleep , leaving overflowing ashtrays and empty glasses and cans and bottles strewn about the floor . |
| 22 | Another Saturday came round with no prospect of a night off when it began to rain in the afternoon . |
| 23 | The car 's powerful engine began to tick in the silence as it cooled in the mild evening breeze . |
| 24 | The new word quickly settled down , however , as a regular pattern began to emerge in the trouble associated with the London Hooligans . |
| 25 | It was only weeks after the speech that I began to read in the press that actually her theme had been positive and she had presented a positive forward view . |
| 26 | His logical mind lent itself superbly to maths and he began to excel in the subject . |
| 27 | She began to run in the direction of Coton . |
| 28 | Many parents who began to work with their children complained that the basic schemes they brought home to read were inane , and they subsequently began to share in the choice of books within the classroom . |
| 29 | Hamburg and Bremen had become great oceanic ports , and France and Germany began to compete in the ocean liner traffic ; soon there were regular services to every part of the world . |
| 30 | It is believed to be of Danish origin founded about AD 890 when Danish raiders began to settle in the area . |