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Example sentences for "people began"

  • In a word, people began to give up themselves to their fears, and to think that all regulations and methods were in vain, and that there was nothing to be hoped for but an universal desolation.

  • Except officials and servants, there was no one on the platform yet, because of the early hour; gradually, however, people began to arrive.

  • People began to whisper that Pan Ignas was a son of old Zavilovski; that he had threatened his sister with a law-suit for concealing the will; that she chose to renounce all and go abroad rather than be exposed to a scandalous law-suit.

  • It had begun to drag, so people began to doubt; and for Mashko doubt approached defeat.

  • People began to mention the name of Spartacus, but Spartacus was not alive.

  • People began to leave the passages where they had assembled to straighten their legs and converse.

  • People began to show the old and well-known signs of impatience, and Parliament suddenly experienced difficulty in providing the King with funds.

  • People began to fear some terrible Popish plot.

  • People began to understand that a shotgun is no effective remedy for a hungry stomach and even the soldiers (who came from among the people) were no longer to be depended upon.

  • People began to suspect that our religion had not been supernaturally revealed, while others, far older and substantially the same, had been naturally produced.

  • In other words, people began to think that the God of the Christians and the God of nature were about the same, and that neither appeared to take any care of the human race.

  • Lines of people began to climb the court house hill early in the morning.

  • After that, people began to estrange them, and to rouse her against him.

  • People began at once after this battle to cut up here and there small Swedish detachments.

  • People began to breathe with greater freedom.

  • People began to wander away from their old homes.

  • Illustration: "People began to wander away from their old homes.

  • Presently a great rush of people began to stream towards her from one of the platforms, and trucks of luggage, heralded by shouts of, "Out of the way, there!

  • At first, the report was received with incredulity--but gained ground, as people began to notice that several packages were being taken in boats from the farm-house to both the Eulalie and the Valkyrie.

  • People began to look upon them as the leading house in Europe.

  • At about eleven the crowd of people began to make their appearance as before.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came again; could confide; fine figure; good dame; grace unto; people are; people began; people called; people came; people have; people said; people should; people used; people were; people whom; people will; people would; royal governor; shall fail; show their; silver spoon; skim well; sweet girl; thou blessed; thousand roubles; will become