Example sentences of "began [verb] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He began to aim at the other man , who was reloading his Luger , but was stopped by the Doctor 's hand on his shoulder .
2 Where or with whom James received his training is not known , but by 1783 he was established in London ; and in that year he announced himself by publishing a pamphlet on A Method of Constructing Vapour Baths , and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy .
3 His fingers began to scrabble at the coarse edge of the steel plate .
4 The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole .
5 Idly she began to stab at the wet ground with it , but it struck something hard straight away .
6 Clumsily he began to tug at the heavy gold signet ring on one of his fingers .
7 It began to ring at the other end .
8 News of the victory spread as the clans began to muster at the appointed time at Glenfinnan , which , with the mountains rising all around the tranquil waters of the loch , provided an intensely dramatic setting for the formal beginning of the campaign .
9 My brain began to overheat at the sheer scale of the disaster that had just overtaken me .
10 They both began to speak at the same time , and Fen gestured to her to go first .
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