In the weeks before our move from Manhattan, we began to acquaint ourselves with this mysterious pond.
In 2004, as Barack Obama, a third-term Illinois state senator who had lost a congressional race a couple of years earlier, was preparing for what looked like a quixotic run for the Senate, he began to acquaint himself with the foreign-policy world in Washington.
They remember, however, that two of their distaff reigns were flourishing ones and they observe with growing confidence the serious-faced young Princess with whom they are finally beginning to get acquainted.
But I still cannot understand why there isn't more excitement about the incredible diversity of life that we're just beginning to get acquainted with in the sea".
Then again, voters in many states have only just begun to be acquainted with Mr. Obama, and more familiarity may breed more comfort — and dispel some of the savage myths about him, such as the one claiming that he is a Muslim who doesn't pledge allegiance to the American flag.
At the time, this brand of spontaneous, on-the-street comedy was already tame by American standards, but Mexicans were just beginning to get acquainted with reality TV.
I also got to work on a variety of initiatives to help bring technology into classrooms where our young people could begin to become acquainted with the digital revolution that was then just beginning to remake our world.
Annie attended secondary school until around 1997, when she began to DJ around Bergen, getting acquainted with members of the Bergen music scene.
In 1939, while still in Belgium, the young Schachter-Shalomi became acquainted with and began to frequent a circle of Habad hasidim who cut and polished diamonds in Antwerp.
Soon after college graduation in 1840 Bain began to contribute to The Westminster Review, thus becoming acquainted with the philosopher John Stuart Mill and his circle in London.
Greek treatises were translated into Arabic, and scholars, who were acquainted with the Greek writings, began to devote books or sections of books to the theory of music.
