Example sentences of "she [vb past] the beginning [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her voice was firm and dismissive , and as she saw the beginnings of surprise on his face at her rejection she moved swiftly into her room and started to close the door . |
| 2 | Hearing her own firmness doubted , she felt the beginnings of anger but quickly suppressed it . |
| 3 | She felt the beginnings of a disastrous blush and busied herself with a dirty mark on the window , getting out her handkerchief and scrubbing , her back to Louise . |
| 4 | Again this brought guilt piling in on her head , because she felt the beginnings of a great liking for the woman who had stolen her father away . |
| 5 | She wondered whether she had been sniffing ; it was true she had the beginnings of a cold . |
| 6 | By the time she arrived , still wrestling with this dramatic rearrangement of the stars in the family constellation , she had the beginnings of a bad headache , and it was only as she turned into the drive and saw the lights and heard voices and music spilling from the house that she thought about the party that was still , clearly , very much in progress . |