Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | The splash was dusty but still visible and , without much trouble , I found the beginning of the trail about twenty feet straight ahead in the wood and followed it as easily through the tangled trees and undergrowth as on the day before . |
| 2 | I heard the beginning of a chuckle from the front seat , quickly stifled . |
| 3 | I felt the beginnings of a slithering enfoldment . |
| 4 | I felt the beginnings of irritation . |
| 5 | I missed the beginning so I was n't sure if it was Mick Mills or Mick McGivern ( ex West Ham bore who follows John Lyall around the place ) . |
| 6 | It was a style which heralded the beginning of the end of England 's architectural identity . |
| 7 | That this should have happened , within a period of a few generations for example , and therefore in evolutionary terms , immediately , is palpably unlikely , for the mental development which heralded the beginnings of civilisation could have started long before man 's activities were such as would leave archaeological evidence . |
| 8 | The Middle Ages and the Renaissance — a wider ranging historical examination of a formative period , which preceded the beginnings of our ‘ Modern World ’ , yet possessed a very distinctive character and ethos of its own . |
| 9 | Littleborough is interesting as a weaving town which saw the beginning of the rise of cotton mills , but fell behind when the great boom concentrated the industry in the palatial brick mills of Manchester , Oldham , Rochdale , Bolton , et al . |
| 10 | In the 1790s he was commissioned to build a conservatory for the Prince of Wales , which marked the beginning of a renowned Royal patronage culminating in the building of Regent 's Park and the Brighton Pavilion . |
| 11 | A few more meditative poems , however , achieved a lyrical power which disarmed most critics , and which helped some early readers , such as the young Thomas De Quincey , to see in the collection as a whole that ‘ ray of a new morning ’ which marked the beginning of English Romanticism . |
| 12 | The 1985 demonstrations were triggered off by Japan 's intention to commemorate the ‘ Mukden Incident ’ of 1931 , which marked the beginning of their annexation of north-east China . |
| 13 | It was a reaction which marked the beginning of the end of their marriage . |
| 14 | Kim put forward a blend of Russian and Chinese approaches , which marked the beginning of the independent and sometimes eccentric path subsequently trodden by Kim . |
| 15 | All of us were wearing something new — a spianato — because it was the custom , however difficult in years of war , to have a new outfit for this occasion which marked the beginning of autumn . |
| 16 | In June 1259 it was to Edward and two colleagues that the writ was addressed which ordered the pulling down of ‘ the old fabric of the church of Westminster … as far as the vestry which is by the king 's seat … and to have the same church rebuilt … in such a manner as the new fabric there requires ’ , an order which marked the beginning of work on the choir . |
| 17 | He could see , just over the wall , the line of trees which marked the beginning of the forest . |
| 18 | It is an auspicious development , similar to the religious movement which marked the beginning of our own Green Age . |
| 19 | A close friend and confidant of the Rev. Martin Luther King , Abernathy helped to organize the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott which marked the beginning of the modern US civil rights movement : he was with King when the latter was assassinated in Memphis on April 4 , 1968 , and succeeded him as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ( SCLC ) , the organization which the two men had founded in 1957 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I 'm afraid you saw the beginning of it . |
| 22 | She felt the beginning sting of tears in her eyes , and she shook her head wildly , averting her face from him . |
| 23 | Hearing her own firmness doubted , she felt the beginnings of anger but quickly suppressed it . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She wondered whether she had been sniffing ; it was true she had the beginnings of a cold . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | erm We saw the beginning of the factory , industrialization , big manufacturers where lots of people worked and where cloth could be churned out at a very fast rate , and therefore , cloth was cheaper . |
| 29 | This improvement came through entirely in the second half and was predominantly in the USA where we saw the beginnings of economic recovery . |
| 30 | If one took the beginning of the universe to correspond to the North Pole , then the end of the universe should be similar to the beginning , just as the South Pole is similar to the North . |