Example sentences of "they began [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took his arm and with her half-supporting him , they began to stumble towards the edge of the moor . |
| 2 | As she showed him the barn , they began to talk of the forest . |
| 3 | They began to apply to the revolution the techniques and approaches , the concern with social history and with quantitative methods , already being widely applied in less sensitive fields . |
| 4 | They began to pace along the drive , for the grass was still damp from the recent rain . |
| 5 | They began to walk to the bus stop . |
| 6 | They began to walk down the hill towards the lake . |
| 7 | In the alleyway in which she had found him he had been protected from the evening surge of the wind , but as they began to walk towards the west it seemed to attack him . |
| 8 | ‘ Why do n't I buy you a coffee ? ’ she suggested , and they began to walk towards the refreshment tent , Lissa 's glance drifting idly back towards the boat . |
| 9 | They began to walk along the staging . |
| 10 | As soon as they began to walk along the shops Owen was very glad that she had come . |
| 11 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |
| 12 | After the routine admiration of children , garden , and so on , they began to chat about the office . |
| 13 | Apparently at this particular time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road in question and traffic from one direction had halted in order to allow that the young girl and her friend to cross the road they began to cross on the zebra crossing but , as she reached the centre of the road Mrs was driving her vehicle in the opposite direction and she failed to stop the young girl , in her teens , was unable to take , avoiding acci action and she was knocked down as she crossed the road . |