Example sentences of "began [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Bradford showed little of the enterprising approach that has been helping them shed a dour image this season , but it was not until the 64th minute that they began to slide out of the contest . |
| 4 | They were surprised to see leather helmets and the glitter of ranked steel among the rock-throwing denizens of the north bank and to receive several arrows , harmless in the teeth of the wind , as they began to swing round to the south shore to accomplish their landing . |
| 5 | As the day wore on they heard everywhere around them the rill of running water , and grass began to poke up through the snow in clumps . |
| 6 | Slowly , I began to swim along under the castle walls . |
| 7 | ‘ Do n't you dare presume to tell me what I need ! ’ she spat , trembling as she began to clamber on to the quayside . |
| 8 | Here , with the concentration on labour-intensive crops , not only large estates with hired labour but large peasant farms also flourished , and even began to catch up with the estates . |
| 9 | We had both had quite a happy day ; but as the sun began to creep round to the west and to decline , I had a feeling of unease . |
| 10 | At Charing Cross the boatman began to pull in as the deep bend in the river became more pronounced . |
| 11 | Owen never repeated this claim in the pre-Darwinian era , but liberal theologians such as the Oxford mathematician and philosopher Baden Powell began to come around to the idea of ‘ designed evolution ’ during the 1850s . |
| 12 | At the congress Carlsson declared that the emergence of a new security system in Europe based on the 1975 Helsinki accords meant that Sweden 's neutrality no longer " bore the same heavy burden " , and the party began to come round to the view of both industry and the two major opposition parties ( M and Fp ) that Sweden should apply for membership of the European Communities ( EC , which it did in July 1991 — see p. 38353 ) . |
| 13 | Colour began to come back into the young woman 's cheeks . |
| 14 | People began to come back into the block . |
| 15 | He began to come back down the tunnel towards her . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Although this was the grandest , Bering 's voyage of discovery was only one of many scientific expeditions in the eighteenth century , and through the efforts of government-sponsored explorers and private entrepreneurs — the latter seeking not so much scientific information as further killing grounds in the pursuit of the lucrative sea otter — Russia 's political and commercial power began to reach out beyond the Siberian landmass across the northern Pacific , taking in the Aleutian and Kuril Islands , Russian America ( the present Alaska ) , as well as establishing trading settlements down the western coast of America , and even making a short-lived foray into the Hawaiian archipelago . |
| 18 | At once the crabber began to bounce about on the waves , as though the Angharad was dancing a jig over the water in her pleasure at taking a trip . |
| 19 | She began to scrabble about in the dirt . |
| 20 | But disappointment began to set in by the time the ballot boxes had been emptied , and when the second stage of the count began , at 12.45 a.m. , it soon became clear that it would be a two-horse race . |
| 21 | She looked over her shoulder , shook her head again , and began to walk back towards the stairway to the gallery . |
| 22 | They began to walk back towards the house . |
| 23 | Isobel turned and began to walk back towards the house . |
| 24 | With Thérèse at her side she began to walk back towards the house . |
| 25 | People began to walk back towards the house . |
| 26 | He began to walk back towards the house . |
| 27 | She turned round and quickly began to walk back towards the door . |
| 28 | The brave man turned his back on Silver and began to walk back to the beach . |
| 29 | With such dignity as I could manage I began to walk back to the village . |
| 30 | when Sir Henry left the house and began to walk back to the Hall |