Example sentences of "beginning to " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he got home his wife was already beginning to be unwell . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Just a minute , ’ said Henry , a thought beginning to burgeon in his mind . |
| 3 | She gasped at the sight of the blood beginning to cake under his nose . |
| 4 | Rosenberg worked hard to raise the money to have them give the American lecture tour , and he was beginning to be suspicious of Aveling , but Eleanor was devoted to him and deaf to all his antics . |
| 5 | Parke , 17 , needed all his creativity and courage to hold on for a 15-10 , 9-15 , 15-12 , 15-14 victory just when his resources were beginning to flag . |
| 6 | These sentiments are beginning to be echoed by others in similar positions . |
| 7 | Things are beginning to hot up a little . ’ |
| 8 | We saw in the main street the corpse of a woman already gnawed by dogs ( people are beginning to be afraid of dogs ) . |
| 9 | The pattern of the 1970s and the 1980s was already beginning to be woven on the warp of America and the woof of the European continent . |
| 10 | Maybe because the teddy boy fashion was just beginning to edge back in ; it was around the time of Roxy Music 's Spaceman Ted look . |
| 11 | Sophie moreover actually had a job , had an income , which was beginning to be something of a pressing issue , inflation and the changing climate began to bite into their indifferent superiority to the outside world and they had given no thought as to how to fight that . |
| 12 | The wound was beginning to smart a little . |
| 13 | The story of their latest protests is beginning to be pieced together from documents brought by travellers to Hong Kong and the West . |
| 14 | The international landscape with which we began 1989 — the old , familiar structures of the two alliances , the Anglo-American special relationship , the European Community 's halting progress toward greater unity , and the newer but also beginning to be familiar element of reform in the Soviet Union — is being transformed , and it is Germany which is leading that transformation . |
| 15 | It was the psychedelic 60s and drugs were beginning to their part in the Arts Lab , and I recall at one point David lecturing the audience on the dangers of taking drugs . ’ |
| 16 | Mick Ronson : ‘ We toured the States followed by Japan , and by the time we came back to England , it was beginning to really snowball . |
| 17 | ‘ I know , I know , just when he was beginning to be a success like Perry . |
| 18 | Prodded by its chairman , Yuri Blokhin , Soyuz is beginning to edge away from the colonels and towards the reformers . |
| 19 | Clasper was beginning to be seen by his own members for what he really was : a born agitator and troublemaker who was great to have around when plant managements behaved like bastards because he was one too and would give as good as he got in a stand-up fight . |
| 20 | With my luck , Ginny , I 'd lose if I backed the only filly in a one horse race , ’ Mark told her , suddenly conscious of the fact that his speech was beginning to slur . |
| 21 | Much of our knowledge of Beaker burials derives from excavations conducted in the last century , when the principles of good archaeological practice were only just beginning to be formulated . |
| 22 | But their magnetism was beginning to be challenged as early as 1953 by Marilyn Monroe , playing the busty gold-digger , Lorelei Lee , in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes alongside Jane Russell , whose bust , supported by a specially cantilevered bra designed by her master Howard Hughes , was the most noticeable asset she had . |
| 23 | Later on remove all their blossom from summer-fruiting varieties to ensure they make strong crowns before beginning to fruit next year . |
| 24 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 25 | Now that Czechoslovakia is stepping out of the Stalinist ice-box , nationalist voices in Slovakia are beginning to be heard again . |
| 26 | Angela died just as she was beginning to be more widely accepted . |
| 27 | Premiums are beginning to be waived , and three month rent holidays are being offered to try and speed up movement . |
| 28 | Heat the oil in a frying pan and cook the onion until soft and beginning to brown at the edges . |
| 29 | ‘ In all this we see the very bedrock of our constitution beginning to quake … |
| 30 | In this country , which has no serious experience of genuine fascism , the word ‘ fascist ’ is beginning to be applied to anyone who does not accept the statutory myth of the ‘ multi-racial society ’ , imposed on us by successive governments who have even contrived to make any open , honest discussion of it illegal . |