Example sentences of "[pers pn] was begin [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are not of that opinion ? ’ enquired Lili , her head tilted in a way that I was beginning to be familiar with . |
| 2 | I was beginning to be afraid … ’ |
| 3 | Angela died just as she was beginning to be more widely accepted . |
| 4 | She was beginning to be afraid , in fact , that she had drunk too much . |
| 5 | She was beginning to be more than a bit worried about the expenses involved in her escape , and hoped it would n't be too long before she could escape back to anonymity and London . |
| 6 | It was beginning to be light and swallows , gathering to fly away , were noisy and busy round the eaves . |
| 7 | It was beginning to be clear there was something fearful about her mother . |
| 8 | However , it was beginning to be apparent that the decline in the birth rate would radically affect these calculations . |
| 9 | Now the point about this measure is how will the Secretary of State for home affairs , respond to this proposal because this is a re-run , this ten minute ruled bill , of the bill that I introduced last year under the private members bill procedure in which the er junior minister that is currently at the despatch box , said that he accepted the principals of seeking to achieve full registration but felt that the measure itself was premature , premature in that the Home Office were investigating er numbers and matters concerned with the electoral registration and electoral provision , arising from experience at the last general election but I think it was beginning to be accepted that the poll tax had had a serious impact upon the electoral register although there were many other er elements that provided great difficulty . |
| 10 | Rosenberg worked hard to raise the money to have them give the American lecture tour , and he was beginning to be suspicious of Aveling , but Eleanor was devoted to him and deaf to all his antics . |
| 11 | ‘ I know , I know , just when he was beginning to be a success like Perry . |
| 12 | Maybe he was beginning to be sick , but mainly I think he was distressed . |
| 13 | When she and Dustin were reunited in the laundromat , he was beginning to be noticed off-Broadway and she was an established dancer . |
| 14 | He was beginning to be spoken of as a promising student who would be offered a lectureship at the end of the course . |