Example sentences of "beginning [to-vb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his dignity , Kenamun was beginning to sound increasingly like the petty official made good which he was at heart . |
| 2 | The universal availability of the mass media has been rapidly achieved through relatively cheap transistor radios , cassette recorders and televisions , which now totally penetrate the First World , almost totally penetrate the urban Second and Third Worlds , and are beginning to penetrate deeply into the countryside in every country . |
| 3 | By the time I was 22 , I 'd run up nearly £4,000 in debt , and was beginning to fall behind with the payments because I rested sending money off to pay for clothes I 'd fallen out of love with . |
| 4 | As she lifted it out , she realized that the backing was beginning to come away from the heavy cream cardboard of the mount . |
| 5 | When the bloody offal was slapped onto the concrete path before it , the cat hesitated only briefly before running towards this welcome offering , and beginning to chew greedily at the soft , tasty guts . |
| 6 | By 1916 these were beginning to rankle sorely with the men at the front . |
| 7 | Much to my disgust I then found myself as far from the sea as I could get — Heathrow Airport , which was just in its infancy but beginning to grow rapidly with the postwar boom in air travel . |
| 8 | I 'm beginning to look forward to the rest of the party . |
| 9 | We 're now beginning to look forward to the return home , which is little more than 5 weeks distant . |
| 10 | A way of life , a set of values and attitudes which , according to some social historians did n't emerge until the late 1800's when the British Empire was at its most powerful , when imperialism , nationalism and Toryism were beginning to figure prominently in the language of the pubs and the music halls . |
| 11 | With a quick sigh of relief she saw Jill and other members of the emergency resuscitation team beginning to arrive breathlessly on the scene . |
| 12 | From their small and humble beginnings in tiny weather-board stations to the great climaxes of the massive Auckland and Wellington stations of the 1930s , New Zealand Railways have consistently adopted thoughtful and sensitive approaches , When railway confidence was beginning to wane elsewhere in the world in the 1930s , New Zealand not only built two of the greatest stations in the southern hemisphere , but under the Labour Government of 1936–49 continued to invest in railway 's . |
| 13 | By 1959 , some of the regime forces were beginning to organize politically outside the limits of FET y de las JONS . |
| 14 | Not only was the boat moving away from land , but this 147-year-old colony is also beginning to move away from the Prince of Wales and the country he represents . |
| 15 | I have no record of having received a reply and since everything is beginning to move again with the local authorities applying to the Secretary of State for him to lay Orders under the Transport and Public Works Act to enable them to proceed with public consultation on their scheme , the matter is becoming critical once again . |
| 16 | It was the first event of its kind , and only possible now that traffic was beginning to move again after the restraints of the war . |