Example sentences of "i began to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had been at the wedding a full hour before I began to be curious about the whereabouts of the bride and groom . |
| 2 | I began to be conscious even of the kidney shape . |
| 3 | And I began to be conscious of my unnatural state , and cry in the night sometimes for no real reason except that I wanted a man beside me — any man at all , I sometimes thought , and the little voice which had been so snooty before , now held its peace on the subject . |
| 4 | In the first half , I began to be ashamed for ballet . |
| 5 | ‘ The decision to do so was one of the hardest I have ever made : but now that I am committed ( by dint of posting the letter before I had time to change my mind ) I began to be afraid of opposite extremes — afraid that I am merely indulging in an orgy of egoism . ’ |
| 6 | My real self began to appear , I began to be afraid . |
| 7 | I could not make her understand it was herself , and I began to be afraid that her illness was real . |
| 8 | Whatever it was , I began to be aware of all the doubts , of all the rational thoughts that I had put away in my pursuit of ‘ complementary ’ medicine . |
| 9 | As I got to know Russell I began to be angry at this woman who was still causing him misery . |