Example sentences of "begin [verb] [conj] [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his judgment , Lord Justice Dillon rejected Mothercare 's claim for passing off because in particular the book taken as a whole , not merely its title , did not begin to suggest that it had been issued by or sponsored by or was in any way associated with Mothercare . |
| 2 | She says she wept nonstop for an hour during which she gradually began to realize that she had been out of her mind for the last six weeks . |
| 3 | Shelley was beginning to see that she had been put in a very special place of importance in Miguel 's confidence . |
| 4 | Then I began to worry if I had done the right thing . |
| 5 | Before I had been there a month my eyes began to suffer and I had to start wearing glasses for close work . |
| 6 | This uninhibited tourist did not look like the Frankenstein monster whom many Americans had expected and some of them began to wonder if they had got Khrushchev and his modest and dignified wife wrong . |
| 7 | Huge unemployment resulted and East Europeans began to wonder if they had not been better off in economic isolation — though there was no going back on political reform . |
| 8 | I began to wonder if I had halitosis or a snotty nose , or green eyes , or a squint — surely I am not so unattractive ! |
| 9 | After two hours I began to wonder if he had stitched me up and then , worse , whether he was back at the flat with Alison . |
| 10 | True there 'd been found in Alicia 's desk , but everyone thought that was just an accident , now they began to wonder if someone had put them there , not Alicia , Lizzie would n't do a thing like that , but somebody , it was getting near half term and new the girls were excited because some of them were expecting visits from there parents . |
| 11 | Loretta began to wonder if she had been mistaken . |
| 12 | I was beginning to wonder if something had happened , and then wondered how the devil I was going to tell Maura if it had ! |
| 13 | He was beginning to wonder if he had treated her unfairly . |
| 14 | He was beginning to form a picture of the murderer and even beginning to wonder if he had a match . |
| 15 | Luke was silent for several seconds and she began to suspect that he had fallen asleep . |
| 16 | I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too . |
| 17 | He began to suspect that she had gone to Glasgow . |
| 18 | But she was more tired than she knew , and soon she began to wish that she had a suitcase to sit on ; but hers was on the rack in that tightly packed carriage , and she could n't go back for it . |
| 19 | For an hour or so Fabia wandered around the area which the dramatist Goethe had once called ‘ a paradise on earth ’ , and began to wish that she had more holiday than she had in which to explore more fully . |
| 20 | The following day Charlie 's section of ten began to wish that he had n't spent the previous fourteen years of his life visiting the early morning market . |
| 21 | We 'd hardly gone half way when it began to rain and we had to run the rest of the way to queue under shelter . |
| 22 | Twelve months on and we are beginning to wish that we had left things the way they were ! |
| 23 | The afternoon was becoming silly and we were now beginning to wish that he had dumped the carp rods sooner . |
| 24 | For a while there was no conversation and Lydia began to regret that she had put Finn in a bad mood , since usually he was prepared to entertain when she was not . |
| 25 | I could not find him , and I began to hope that he had not followed us to the hotel . |
| 26 | We really began to believe that we had the Nationalist Party on the run . |
| 27 | So complete was his total immersion in the subject that he actually began to believe that he had assisted Sanders in the plan 's preparation . |
| 28 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 29 | As silently as I could , I began to move away , and as soon as I was clear of the trees , began to run as I had never run before . |
| 30 | Mr in his evidence spoke of their quotes , beginning to think that alternative regime , when we began to realise that we had limits , unquote . |