Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 These include patients whose coping resources are temporarily exhausted , those who require further assessment , and patients for whom the mobilization of additional help is necessary before they can begin to cope with their difficulties .
2 If the record of those who organised and controlled production is anything like complete , they did not begin to compare with their peers in East Anglia .
3 Balanced across his knees as she was , Paige felt the close proximity of his broad chest begin to impinge on her consciousness .
4 Talbot could n't even begin to guess at his nationality except that he was n't Greek .
5 The legs and hips begin to work at their maximum power when the club arrives parallel to the ground during the forward swing .
6 UNDERSTANDING COME dawns when disorientation sets in , and you begin to succumb to their dizzying realm .
7 It is a quiet and comfortable village to stop in , as I know from having stopped there , with good walks up into the hills and good fishing — for trout , which begin to come into their own around here as the mountain fish .
8 A little later on , when all the relatives have gone home and the number of attentive friends at the time of the funeral has dwindled , it might be the time when the bereaved begin to reflect on their changed circumstances and try to evaluate how they feel both about themselves and the person who has died .
9 But if by any chance the Bairns ' fortunes begin to falter under his chairmanship , and their stalwart position as second-bottom in the league is challenged , then he should not be surprised to hear from the terraces the menacing sound of the fans as they give tongue : ‘ Christie , Christie , Christie — out , out , out ! ’
10 The foregoing chapters will , it is hoped , form a sufficient background and we may now begin to look at their implications for the social worker and for the social work profession .
11 We may become more like them in our styles and habits ; we may begin to look at our children as our parents looked at us ; we may even assume that we will die at the age at which they died , and of the same disease or in the same way .
12 The economic and unemployment misery daily portrayed through the British media should make us all more aware that we must begin to look after our own .
13 I heaped much obscene verbal abuse on various owners to the extent that several begin to leash in their ugly mutts when they saw me coming .
14 When this happens , they should be peeled away from the root stock , even to the point of there being no leaves at all , and as the roots become established , longer , paler leaves will begin to grow in their place .
15 Now , however , he knew the army must begin to shrink towards its battle order .
16 Hebert 's and Wainwright 's articles are encouraging because they begin to deal with their critical objects as a point of intervention within a political debate .
17 And as I watched him hurl handfuls of salt round the ring as a prelude to hurling handfuls of Japanese wrestler around the heads of the spectators , I could feel my heart begin to beat behind my nightie and the partisan words begin to form on my open lips : ‘ Tear ‘ is ‘ ead off , Sall !
18 Unseen thorns begin to snatch at your clothes and rip your skin .
19 And he begin to fumble with his tobacco pouch .
20 As soon as dusk begins to fall , the local starlings begin to arrive at our house .
21 And as I watched him hurl handfuls of salt round the ring as a prelude to hurling handfuls of Japanese wrestler around the heads of the spectators , I could feel my heart begin to beat behind my nightie and the partisan words begin to form on my open lips : ‘ Tear ‘ is ‘ ead off , Sall !
22 Bernice felt a sick feeling begin to develop in her stomach .
23 While pregnant Senada Causevic and her four children begin to recover from their months of hell , Bob is mugging up on Russian so he is better able to share the fears and hopes of his new friends .
24 As soon as the developing eggs begin to move within their globes of jelly , the males lean forward and appear to eat them .
25 Her pulses were racing madly as he watched him tug his tie undone with a rough impatience , shrug off his jacket and begin to dispose of his shirt in the same cool , determined style .
26 Only after the entry of the skeleton-forming cells do the group of cells that will form the gut begin to pulsate on their inner surfaces and a small inward indentation of the wall occurs .
27 Close your eyes and begin to inhale through your nose very slowly .
28 One 18-year-old insurance clerk from Birchfield explained how he reached a sort of cross-road after his training began to detract from his studies : ‘ I came to the conclusion that my career came first and , at 18 , I had to look at my prospects .
29 She settled herself and began to concentrate , and very-quickly this time she felt the electricity beginning to flow inside her head , gathering itself behind the eyes , and the eyes became hot and millions of tiny invisible hands began pushing out like sparks towards the cigar .
30 She gave him a hunted look and began to burrow in its depths to extract what was obviously going to be his present .
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