Example sentences of "she began [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very slowly , she began to go down the stairs , step by step , wincing every time one creaked and glancing over her shoulder every ten seconds or so . |
| 2 | She began to march towards the door , but Theda ran after her and grasped her arm . |
| 3 | But before she had covered a quarter of the distance she began to complain about the light , high-heeled shoes she was wearing . |
| 4 | She was delighted by the carefree lightness of her voice as hastily she began to move to the side of the bed , inwardly quaking but determined not to reveal by the merest movement her reservations to him about revealing her total nakedness by the growing light of day as it filtered through the perpendicular blinds . |
| 5 | She began to move through the house as she had done before , opening doors , now trying to force doors which would not open . |
| 6 | She began to paint after the birth of her first child in 1973 . |
| 7 | She began to drive to the outskirts of Grantley . |
| 8 | She began to relax into the massage almost immediately . |
| 9 | She began to walk towards the door , but the Doctor stopped her with a look . |
| 10 | She began to walk towards the worm 's head . |
| 11 | She began to walk through the wood , and after a while she came to a little house . |
| 12 | She began to walk down the path , turning to wave as Elaine shouted , ‘ Thanks for everything . ’ |
| 13 | SHe began to saunter towards the canteen door . |
| 14 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 15 | Instead , she began to pace around the room , casting cryptic glances at the Stubbs and nervous puffs of smoke towards the ceiling . |
| 16 | Sobbing , gasping for breath , she began to crawl across the floor . |
| 17 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 18 | Again she began to think about the murder of her brother-in-law . |
| 19 | When she reached the bottom of the stairs , she began to run towards the door . |
| 20 | And she began to run along the road to him . |
| 21 | Alexandra screamed , one hand on her hat and one at her skirts as she began to run along the platform . |
| 22 | She began to run in the direction of Coton . |
| 23 | She began to beat on the worm 's flesh , trying to wake the children , calling , shouting , yelling . |
| 24 | She began to play with the string of amber glass beads round Anna 's neck ( Oxfam Shop , Woodborough ) . |
| 25 | She began to rake from the front of the house towards the road , then realized she had nothing in which to put the leaves . |
| 26 | She began to divert from the path , tracing a semicircular route round the bonnet of the car . |