Example sentences of "we began [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catesby instructed us to take a bench leaning against the far wall and , though the space was narrow , we began to pound at the door like besiegers breaking into a castle . |
| 2 | I saw how the well-documented material containing the truth about Fayed that we began to put before the DTI was received in embarrassed silence . |
| 3 | So we began to ponder on the circumstances which might have made it necessary for such a tiny place to be defended . |
| 4 | The very day that we began to meet in the community centre where we are based , three mothers with their children began to attend . |
| 5 | Inevitably , our friendship overlapped the boundaries of work and we began to meet in the evenings . |
| 6 | I also took part in conferences of Burma missionaries in Lahore , Lucknow and Mussourie , in which we began to think about the revival of our considerable educational work . |
| 7 | And instead of seeing it as something God had ordained , we began to look at the exploitation of the poor by the rich in a political way , but using Christian concepts . |