Example sentences of "begin [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was about half-way across when I felt the rear begin to swing sideways under the weight of the torrent . |
| 2 | Levels of enquiries are beginning to show some early signs of improvement , but any benefit from this will not begin to flow through until the second quarter of 1993 at the earliest . |
| 3 | Another type of chart helps parents begin to stand back from the emotional reactions they have and see what is happening with their child . |
| 4 | These ideas are plausible as far as they go , but I find that they do not begin to square up to the formidable challenge of explaining culture , cultural evolution , and the immense differences between human cultures around the world , from the utter selfishness of the Ik of Uganda , as described by Colin Turnbull , to the gentle altruism of Margaret Mead 's Arapesh . |
| 5 | Booksellers should begin to look seriously at the possibilities of stocking multimedia products , or run the risk of losing out to consumer electronics retailers and an erosion of their market . |
| 6 | He breathed a sigh of relief as he heard Corbett begin to play gently on the lute he always carried , a sign his master was content , reflecting on his own secret thoughts and not keeping a wary eye on him . |
| 7 | It is for this reason that we decided not to input existing historical information to our CPIS ( though historical information would begin to build up from the launch date of the system , so providing an accurate historical background to an individual employee record ) . |
| 8 | Natural gas supplies will begin running down in the twenty-first century . |
| 9 | Individual chats by the coronary nurse and by the physiotherapists in the coronary unit can be supplemented by educational videos , so that the patients can begin to understand more about the nature of the condition . |
| 10 | The immediate task was then to get a secure temporary roof across the whole building so that the interior could begin to dry out in the spring . |
| 11 | They should begin to learn explicitly about the uses of the apostrophe and the exclamation mark . |