Example sentences of "had begun [to-vb] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gun was clean and well-oiled , but in places the oil had begun to thicken and to collect dust . |
| 2 | On the former Johnson wished for accuracy of representation , by which means the portrait painter also creates a piece of history ; on the latter he applauded developments in which historians had begun to consult and interpret factual record instead of merely culling from other histories . |
| 3 | At first the Russians had been driven back in disorder , but in the months of July and August they had begun to recover and had driven the Poles back on their tracks until finally the Red Army was at the gates of Warsaw itself . |
| 4 | Near-by , across the river , a lark had begun to twitter and climb . |
| 5 | Cleo tore off towards a fold-up dining-room table on which a hairy brown cat I had n't noticed until now had begun to stir and stretch . |
| 6 | She nodded mutely , and while she did as she was told he went over to the bed where Effie had begun to writhe and cry out , and her pains , which were erratic , had started again — that they were so erratic was another bad sign , Dr Neil quietly explained . |
| 7 | This animal had begun to grunt and go off her milk two days ago and when I had seen her yesterday I had flirted from one possibility to the other . |
| 8 | Both the security forces and the death squads have renewed their campaign of intimidation against trade unions and popular organizations which had begun to regroup and regain influence during the Duarte period . |
| 9 | In the warm , lamplit darkness the musicians had begun to play and sing haunting ballad-style folk music , in the soft exotic Maltese language . |
| 10 | His openly expressed scorn was all that had mattered , because , quite inexplicably , it had begun to hurt and humiliate . |