Early stages

Usage examples of beginnings.

He took one himself, replaced the case, absently picked up a box of matches lying in front of the nearest gunner and if he noticed the gunner's startled disbelief, the slow beginnings of a smile, the tired shoulders slumping fractionally in a long, soundless sigh of relief, he gave no sign.

It had been the beginnings of a smile that he had seen on Jansci's face, he realised now, and even as he watched the smile widened as Jansci turned towards him.

The beginnings of the change and their change towards him had come, he said, when he had refused to speak at the conference until he knew what had happened to his son, and when he had heard that his son had escaped, he refused to speak anyway -- the Russians' last hold over him was gone.

Far back in my mind the first beginnings of an answer were beginning to shape themselves towards an impossible solution .

Maybe it's the beginnings of a plot to destroy Britain itself, I don't know, damn it all I've just come to the thought and I haven't had time to think about it.

Too much physical effort while wearing heavy furs inevitably results in sweat, and when the effort ceases, as eventually cease it must, the sweat freezes on the skin: the only way to destroy that film of ice is by further exertion, producing even more sweat, the beginnings of a vicious and steadily narrowing circle that can have only one end.

Carraciola, the beginnings of a smile on his face, reached out for the key but, before he could reach it Schaffer abruptly straightened and with a convulsive jerk of his arm sent the key spinning through the open end of the station to land in the valley hundreds of feet below.

There was puzzled speculation in his eyes, and wonder and the first faint beginnings of understanding.

I made it eventually with the aid of the stern-rope, flopped over the gunwale and lay there for a full half minute, gasping away like a stranded whale, before a combination of the beginnings of recovery from complete exhaustion and a mounting sense of urgency had me on my feet again and heading towards the barge's bows and the main gangway.

They have achieved the beginnings of a climate of fear and uncertainty, a climate that can only worsen with the passing of the hours.

Virgin planet, new Beginnings- Woodrow Smith, of many faces, many names, and many places, led this band to New Beginnings, planet clean and bright as morning.

New Beginnings was a planet to be proud of, and it would get better and better and better for a long time.

Ernie, we have a motion to nationalize-I guess that's the word-the New Beginnings Bank of Commerce.

If we stay on New Beginnings, I want 'Ernest Gibbons' to disappear-leave in the 'Andy J.

They were called "prairie goats," which they were not, but systematic taxonomy of fauna and flora on New Beginnings had not gone far.