Example sentences of "began [to-vb] at [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune .
2 In the pre-civil war period , one group of clerics and laymen who shared this approach and who thus opposed the confrontational policies of Laud and his followers , began to meet at the house of Lucius Cary , Lord Falkland , at Great Tew in Oxfordshire .
3 A small pulse began to hammer at the base of Lindsey 's throat as she rose to her feet to pour more coffee .
4 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 .
5 Though several economists in the late 1950s began to look at the economics of education , it was Schultz 's presidential address to the American Economic Association in 1960 that heralded the arrival of the human capital theory on the international academic scene .
6 Very slowly an idea began to form at the back of his mind .
7 A few rich families began to emerge at the top of such societies and the numbers of poor cottagers grew significantly , but the old-established middling families long remained the backbone of many a rural community .
8 In the ACCs , the money supply began to accelerate at the beginning of 1970 .
9 A tiny weeny hint of a plan began to tinkle at the back of my brain like a triangle at the back of an orchestra .
10 Concern about the employment effects of new technology began to re-emerge at the end of the 1970s .
11 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 .
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