Example sentences of "[noun pl] began [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cars began to draw up amid the rubble and whole families , 60 or 70 people in all , climbed out of them to view the silent barricade . |
| 2 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 3 | On May 23 , 187 political prisoners were released , while defeated or deserting government troops began to drift back to the capital . |
| 4 | There was another clink , and gold coins began to drop out of the hem of the wizard 's robe . |
| 5 | And , as the second and third generation of Arab-Americans began to look back across the Atlantic , they were joined by a new wave of immigrants from the Middle East , many of them Lebanese , Palestinians and Iraqis displaced by the political upheavals in the region . |
| 6 | Alerted by a grapevine of unparalleled efficiency to the presence of honkies with money , hitherto undiscovered talents began swarming in from the ghettos and down from the hills , bearing tape-recordings , even guitars , for impromptu auditions . |
| 7 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 8 | After several more rounds , things began to warm up in the ‘ Barge ’ public bar . |
| 9 | There were hundreds of different languages spoken on the Australian continent when the Europeans began to take over in the late eighteenth century . |
| 10 | It was dark by the time the arriving passengers began to fan out through the town in search of lodgings . |
| 11 | Members began to go out into the country on day trips , and the first cricket match between two deaf clubs in the country , which later led to the formation of inter-institute sports activities of billiards , darts , and other sports , took place on 23rd July 1892 at Manchester between Manchester Deaf and Dumb Institute and the Bolton and Bury Institutes . |
| 12 | Like sleep-walkers in a dream the coolies began advancing out of the shade towards the ship . |
| 13 | So that when want numbers of non-directed peasants began to spill out of the disaster areas in the early summer of 1921 , the Central Committee of the Communist Party ordered its guberniia counterparts to put a stop to migration ‘ since the flight of the peasants … will ruin entirely our economic life ’ . |
| 14 | When results began to come in from the field researchers , Highlander served as the collection , organisation and computation centre , and held workshops to allow participants to draw some very marked comparisons and contrasts from the raw data . |
| 15 | The children began filing out of the classroom . |
| 16 | This Vitamin A derivative had for years been prescribed to acne sufferers , but it was not until the mid-Eighties that reports began to filter through from the States about its miraculous ability to smooth out wrinkles caused by exposure to the sun — a process known as photo-ageing . |
| 17 | Students began to spill out of the building , others to stream in . |
| 18 | Now , as always at the beginning of the rainy season , dense black clouds began to roll in over the Residency from the direction of the river , advancing slowly , not more than a few feet above the ground and masking completely whatever lay in their path . |
| 19 | The solid bulk of the nation was as dedicated as ever to the war , phlegmatic and unquestioning , turning a closed mind and a deaf ear to the tales men brought back from Verdun , in much the same way as when , to the succeeding generation , rumours began to filter out from the concentration camps . |