Example sentences of "be just beginning [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Well , as I 'm just beginning to get the hang of this sailing business … ’
2 The hedges were just beginning to take a firm hold , and the lawns still showed the geometric pattern of the turfs as they had been fitted together .
3 The beer was just beginning to turn a little sour in his stomach , and his bladder felt very full .
4 The Guatemalan army was launching a scorched earth policy , which laid waste to hundreds of Indian villages ; in El Salvador , the death squads were dumping a thousand bodies a month on the streets ; in Nicaragua , the Contra war was just beginning to put the Sandinista revolution into reverse .
5 I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service .
6 He was a great player , and he was just beginning to get the notoriety that he really deserved when he had his terrible car accident . ’
7 I was just beginning to understand the power of the mind .
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