Example sentences of "[noun pl] begin [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hector was having an affair with a professor 's wife , whose demands begin to affect his basketball . |
| 2 | For when they had wearied of hurling insults at my father 's back , the two gentlemen began to discuss their host — that is to say , my father 's employer , Mr John Silvers . |
| 3 | She was on the volcano edge again , and the painful stings faded from her consciousness as ripples of other sensations began to invade her body . |
| 4 | Her mother 's moodswings began to terrify her , and she would slow to a careful frozen walk as she turned into their street . |
| 5 | Two of the youngest and pleasantest of his guards began to spend their time in his cell with him day and night , watch and watch about . |
| 6 | His lips began to gather her tears , moving over her eyes and her soft cheeks . |
| 7 | Even his supporters began to notice something curious . |
| 8 | As the shells hit the city , banks and Ministries began to send their records and documents , and sometimes their personnel , out of the capital . |
| 9 | When rubies began to play their part remains uncertain . |
| 10 | He was older , seventy , and his legs began to give him such pain . |
| 11 | He swung back and , just as his legs began to shift his weight forward into the shot and the downswing began , the record man shouted , ‘ Hey , Wally , how ya doin' , man ? ’ |
| 12 | Lineker , on the other hand , took his decision having already played in two World Cups , deciding it was in his best interests to seek a fortune playing in Japan rather than face the prospect of losing his status and even his England place as his legs began to fail him . |
| 13 | She , skilled in the ways of therapy , had after the first few sessions begun dissecting his own motives for him and Kevin , like an obedient dog , ended up nodding slowly as she told him clearly , fully , frankly what he meant when he said what he thought about what she or Henry felt , and how what he thought he thought about what they felt , or said they felt , probably was n't what he really felt any more than what they said they felt was really deep down what they really felt . |
| 14 | It is only when the parents begin telling us about the brilliance of their own revolting offspring , that we start shouting , ‘ Bring us a basin ! |
| 15 | The attitudes of and between parents begin to impress themselves on it simply because they are parental attitudes , not because they are understood . |
| 16 | The Elves begin to rebuild their shattered land . |
| 17 | The Marines began to lower their guns , uncertain of what to do . |
| 18 | At the beginning of June the companies began marketing themselves as a ‘ total service ’ to corporate clients , a one-stop-shop for print buyers from desk top to finished brochure . |
| 19 | Soon , however , distributors were able to secure cheaply-made films from small studios set up to supply their needs , and some American companies began to make their own ‘ quota quickies ’ . |
| 20 | This quickened anti-French feeling , and encouraged by the successes of Sun Yat-sen and Mao Tse-tung in neighbouring China , Annamese nationalists and Communists began to organize themselves more coherently . |
| 21 | Her shoes began to pinch her toes , like a warning to run away , and she was suddenly desperate to go to the lavatory . |
| 22 | With the approach to independence , when the game at last was clearly lost , administrators began to permit themselves a certain degree of cynicism about the loyalty of the Masai . |
| 23 | ‘ Having acquired the means of gratification , such persons must explore the dimensions of pleasure in search of modes of gratification ; given the over determined character of their pursuit of the unreachable , their quest for new experiences begins to consume them . |
| 24 | Yet none of these jolly appellations begins to tell us how treacherous , uncooperative and deceitful this most mysterious of organs can be . |
| 25 | From a very early age individuals begin to learn what behaviours society finds acceptable and unacceptable through rewards and punishments given when behaviour occurs . |
| 26 | As customers panicked and tried to withdraw their savings , banks began to close their doors . |
| 27 | Hastily the reluctant guests began to shed their tunics , loincloths , and boots . |
| 28 | Eventually , even Western governments began to raise their voices . |
| 29 | With the decline of secular Arabism as a credible ideology in the late 1970s , some Palestinians began to affirm their religious loyalties . |
| 30 | For , in spite of all the limitations mentioned , the church does provide ‘ rites of passage ’ for mourners to begin to recognize their changed status as grieving people . |