Example sentences of "began [to-vb] that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hazel began to realize that he liked Strawberry . |
| 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 | The other members began to find that he gave the faculty coherence and a sense of purpose . |
| 4 | Luke was silent for several seconds and she began to suspect that he had fallen asleep . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He began to suspect that she had gone to Glasgow . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Owen began to hope that they viewed the incident as too small to bother about . |
| 12 | I could not find him , and I began to hope that he had not followed us to the hotel . |
| 13 | We really began to believe that we had the Nationalist Party on the run . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Mr in his evidence spoke of their quotes , beginning to think that alternative regime , when we began to realise that we had limits , unquote . |
| 17 | ‘ I began to realise that you had wonderful qualities , though I had to convince my mother with something more than my own feelings and impressions . |
| 18 | Eleanor , ’ she said again , as she began to realise that it made a lot of sense . |
| 19 | As I learned more of missionary work all over the world , I began to realise that there had to be a tremendous effort to help undernourished people to grow their own food for themselves , a task which is still tragically unfinished , and will remain so until the nations of the world , rich and poor , combine together to sacrifice a meagre percentage of their gross national product , which experts calculate to be necessary to abolish hunger in a generation . |
| 20 | Then Kerry began to realise that she had found a strange kind of relief amid the disappointment that knocked her sideways when she first saw Panos . |
| 21 | In the 1880s more Neanderthal-like remains were found , and many paleoanthropologists began to argue that they comprised a distinct species intermediate between apes and humans . |
| 22 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |
| 23 | With the passing of time , he began to think that he 'd taken far too glum a view of the situation . |
| 24 | I began to think that I had found a friend , and I answered him at once . |
| 25 | ‘ I began to think that you had more lives than a cat . ’ |
| 26 | A complete feeling of misery swept over Robyn , mixed with just a hint of panic , as she really began to despair that she had read her own instructions correctly and would never reach the barn or even civilisation again . |
| 27 | She began to feel that she knew where she was , a little : and after a while she too began to talk . |
| 28 | Libby began to feel that he had not been real , but the tent was there , a packet of cigarettes on the rolled mattress , and the smell of smoke filled the airless canvas space , scents of sweat and soap , adult tainting . |
| 29 | Since he also believed , after the meeting at Münchengrätz in 1833 , that Austria would take a lead from Russia on Ottoman affairs , he began to feel that he had a mandate for resolute action when the " eastern question " next arose . |