Example sentences of "that she began [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't until she had successfully launched The Body Shop on to the Unlisted Securities Market that she began to examine the direction in which the business was going and to start articulating its mission in a definitive way . |
| 2 | There are some indications that it was about this time that she began to fall in love with Richard Baxter . |
| 3 | She found it easy : to begin with , she found everything easy , as her memory for facts was remarkable , and it was only as she grew older that she began to notice in herself slight doubts about her ability to pursue higher physics and mathematics . |
| 4 | Skilfully he tuned every nerve in her narrow body to such a concert pitch of response that she began to initiate caresses of her own , delighting in her power as rippling muscles tightened beneath her questing hands . |
| 5 | This belief so dominated her thoughts that she began to form a coherent political ideology based on what she imagined the ancien régime to have been like , and became convinced of the perfection of the aristocratic society of eighteenth-century France . |
| 6 | Even so , most of it was so pointedly on target that she began to leave some of her cynicism aside . |
| 7 | He was smiling but with such grimness that she began to regret her rash decision to come . |
| 8 | A mixture of fear , at being touched by a man at all — and something else , quite different — swept through Sally-Anne so that she began to tremble as he walked her through to the parlour . |
| 9 | It was only now that she began to realise that her feelings bore no relation to what she was experiencing now , with this man . |
| 10 | More significant , it was not until after it ended that she began to possess permanent representatives of her own in the major capitals of Europe . |
| 11 | Charlotte 's response to her discovery had been so instinctive , and the action it had prompted her to take so urgent , that it was not until late afternoon , aboard a train drawing ever closer to Paris , that she began to consider the difficulties and possible consequences of the task she had set herself . |
| 12 | Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter . |
| 13 | It was doing specialist decorative finishes commercially , in the late 1980s , that she began to recognise paint 's abundant potentialities . |
| 14 | It was doing specialist decorative finishes commercially , in the late 1980s , that she began to recognise paint 's abundant potentialities . |
| 15 | According to our mother , he was so late that she began to suspect she had the hysterical pregnancy of all time . |
| 16 | But he was firm as a rock — so firm that she began to suspect that the whole episode was a ruse . |
| 17 | When the end came , Maggie gave a low , shaken moan and collapsed beneath him , her feelings so deep that she began to cry , soft , uncontrollable sobbing that brought his arms around her and his lips to her heated face . |
| 18 | So it was partly out of an illogical sense of obligation that she began to read his book on Aurae Phiala . |
| 19 | It was while she was wiping her face that she began to get an uncanny feeling that she was being watched . |
| 20 | It was only at this late stage that she began to think about them ; they had been a means to an end , Frederica Potter 's removal from Blesford and Yorkshire . |
| 21 | Isabel knew her heart had ceased beating because now it shuddered into action again , racing so fast that she began to feel faint . |
| 22 | Being pressed so tightly against his chest — with his handsome , tanned face only inches away from her own — was so evocative of the past that she began to feel quite faint and dizzy . |
| 23 | Though Between and Thru exhibit striking parallels with the emergent thinking in the late 1960s and early 1970s about the relation of women to language , it was not until nearly fifteen years later that she began to make use of gender-specific arguments in her critical writings . |
| 24 | What distressed her most was that she began to find herself liking the woman , with whom she realized she had much in common . |
| 25 | It was not with any encouragement from himself that she began to address him as Vic , but he was obliged to concede the point . |