Example sentences of "i began [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The days grew warm and I began to hop around the cage and try to fly again . |
| 2 | ‘ For the first time I began to wonder about the camp and the people I should find inside it . |
| 3 | Do you know , that 's the first time I began to wonder about the name Raphael . |
| 4 | Some of the brothers were busy in the scriptorium but I was greeted courteously and no one objected when I began to leaf through the manuscript Southgate had left upon the table . |
| 5 | I began to talk with the priest . |
| 6 | Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time . |
| 7 | I began to grapple with the man who was holding me . |
| 8 | Later , after I had qualified as a teacher and got married , I began to study at the university , teaching at a school during the day . |
| 9 | A little calmer , I began to write on the ground with the stick , ‘ Howard is a nut ’ , but was distracted by a tiny blue van in the south and was determined not to let it go by . |
| 10 | Slowly , even reluctantly I began to integrate with the idea of Bristol . |
| 11 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 12 | I began to work on the dog with all I had . |
| 13 | Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book . |
| 14 | Dawn broke as the field passed through a shuttered Bridgetown , and I began to pass through the field . |
| 15 | I began to feel under the weather on Thursday morning after leaving Haslemere . |
| 16 | I began to think about the changes the coming wedding would bring . |
| 17 | The sun had gone now and , once on dry land , I began to walk to the stockade . |
| 18 | It was only weeks after the speech that I began to read in the press that actually her theme had been positive and she had presented a positive forward view . |
| 19 | The problem , as I began to discover over the years , does n't lie with the composer , it lies with the interpreters and what is expected from the interpreters by people who have dubious taste . |