Example sentences of "began [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 2 | Deborah turned away from the signpost and began wading back through the deep undergrowth to the main path , intending to break into a run when she reached it ; but just as she turned off she heard a faint , distant , reedy cry , which stopped her in her tracks . |
| 3 | At Charing Cross the boatman began to pull in as the deep bend in the river became more pronounced . |
| 4 | Colour began to come back into the young woman 's cheeks . |
| 5 | Although this was the grandest , Bering 's voyage of discovery was only one of many scientific expeditions in the eighteenth century , and through the efforts of government-sponsored explorers and private entrepreneurs — the latter seeking not so much scientific information as further killing grounds in the pursuit of the lucrative sea otter — Russia 's political and commercial power began to reach out beyond the Siberian landmass across the northern Pacific , taking in the Aleutian and Kuril Islands , Russian America ( the present Alaska ) , as well as establishing trading settlements down the western coast of America , and even making a short-lived foray into the Hawaiian archipelago . |
| 6 | In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks . |
| 7 | Moreover , the social scientists now began to draw up alongside the social critics in throwing doubt upon the value and achievement of the grammar schools . |
| 8 | So much lava flowed into the Skaftar valley that it was completely filled and lava began to spill out over the surrounding countryside . |
| 9 | It began to break down in the post-war years and during that period , too , the concentration of control functions in London also began to increase . |
| 10 | There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century . |
| 11 | The juggernaut started with a cough and splutter , was thrown into gear and began to move off down the narrow road . |
| 12 | The disputes between the counties and county boroughs continued as the population began to move out of the industrial cities into surrounding suburban estates or commuter villages in county areas . |
| 13 | Disquiet at the new direction of religious affairs soon surfaced in parliament , and over the next few years a growing number of MPs began to speak out against the Arminian threat . |