Example Sentences

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Queues have been beginning to build at the Port of Dover, although Mr Howe said this was normal for a Monday.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2022

The plane’s rapid descent began at the point when it would have been beginning to head to land, according to tracking data.

From Washington Post • Mar. 21, 2022

“We’ve suffered an attrition of 20 attorneys since 2012, and we’ve only gotten over the budget hurdle this year and have been beginning to hire them back,” Mr. Samborn said.

From Washington Times • Jul. 24, 2014

Safaa had started to talk a little more—might have been beginning to trust us.

From "Without Refuge" by Jane Mitchell

But it must have been beginning to get like that at tea-time.

From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller