Example sentences of "just begun [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Lucy walked out of his office , and out of the hotel , and into the night where a soft winter rain had just begun to fall . |
| 2 | ‘ I know it 's crazy , but I 've only just begun to realise how much I 'm going to miss all this . ’ |
| 3 | The timer on my cooker has just begun to bleep , so I 'd better go and attend to the dinner . |
| 4 | ‘ A little , ’ she admitted reluctantly , but it had only just begun to do so , and she suspected that the tension induced by his presence at the end of an unusually demanding day was more responsible than the bump . |
| 5 | Arts groups have only just begun to take on board the fact that they have to be much more proactive if they are to tap the creativity of people who may be confined to their homes or only get out to day centres with help . |
| 6 | Charlotte had just begun to take stock of what needed to be removed from Jackdaw Cottage when Mrs Mentiply arrived , intent on discharging her housekeeping duties to the bitter end . |
| 7 | Siegfried had just begun to take the stairs three at a time when his brother descended from the landing , knotting his tie with perfect composure . |
| 8 | Peter had only just begun to go through the night without demanding a feed . |
| 9 | She had just begun to settle into her neat flat , and although it was n't furnished expensively the few pieces she had were chosen with loving care . |
| 10 | She and her husband , Stephen , feel they 've only just begun to grieve , one we barn , where they 'd taken the girls in January last year . |
| 11 | On this basis , we have only just begun to explore some of the social processes that are associated with teachers ' work . |
| 12 | If the golden age for Byrd 's motets has only just begun to dawn , then Byrd 's songs are still in their dark ages . |
| 13 | Laboratory chemists have only just begun to wake up to this change . |
| 14 | The surface had just begun to shimmer in the light when Mrs Rosalia Alderley came out through the French windows of the ballroom and stopped , staring in thunderstruck amazement . |
| 15 | He 's obviously been doing that since your pregnancy , yet you 've only just begun to notice how little he confides in you . |
| 16 | A feminist perspective on , and analysis of , architecture and planning has only just begun to emerge over the last decade . |
| 17 | His parents had only just begun to give him and his sibling the lore of their territory , telling him the names of eagles who had nested there before . |
| 18 | Yet the radiant aspect of Chesney Wold as Esther first sees it had only just begun to lose its fascination for the English as the ideal that humbler men might emulate in a reduced form . |
| 19 | She had just begun to veil . |
| 20 | erm There are one or two people who have just begun to identify a faint movement back into an increase in numbers , but over very many years you can know pretty well exactly where you are as far as the total number of pupils you have to provide for is concerned , and therefore , in that sense , the system can plan its resources for a known population . |
| 21 | However , Will Purser helped me with a few defensive sentences such as , ‘ Please talk slowly , I have only just begun to learn Burmese . ’ |
| 22 | I stayed up most of the night , totally engrossed in the book only to find that David Wood had published what I had only just begun to suspect , a definite pattern underlying the whole region of Rennes-le-Chateau . |
| 23 | She had just begun to tear it open when there was a loud , heavy knock at the front door . |
| 24 | It had penetrated through the layered chalks on which Troodos sits and had just begun to bring up rock cores from the ophiolite 's fringe . |
| 25 | The class had just begun to read the play which I had chosen when at 11am the radio relay came to life with an announcer saying : This is London ’ , followed by the announcement that the King had died in the early hours of the morning and proclaiming the accession of Queen Elizabeth II to the throne , ’ recalls Mr Dowling of Staindrop Drive , Middlesbrough . |
| 26 | The sky above the glittering slate roofs was as blue as the curious lilies which had just begun to come out under the dining-room window , trumpet flowers set like the seed-head of a dandelion but as blue as — the sky . |
| 27 | While firms wait for their luck to turn , investors are doing their best to ignore both the horrible results which companies have just begun to announce for last year and the recent sharp decline in bond prices . |
| 28 | Since 1979 we have just begun to have confidence in ourselves to raise our eyes to the horizon again . |
| 29 | She had just begun to worry about the honeymoon , finding an image of Hywel in Benidorm particularly elusive , when she was summoned by the doctor . |
| 30 | Maxim 's thinking had just begun to catch up with why two armed watchmen — the ones outside his own flat had n't been armed — had suddenly turned up in the service road of Neptune Court . |