Example sentences of "began [to-vb] at the [noun] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Then the princess 's soldiers began to batter at the doors of the wooden fortress with their axes . |
| 5 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |
| 6 | A small pulse began to hammer at the base of Lindsey 's throat as she rose to her feet to pour more coffee . |
| 7 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 12 | Very slowly an idea began to form at the back of his mind . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the ACCs , the money supply began to accelerate at the beginning of 1970 . |
| 15 | The little man began to kick at the tentacle in fury . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Carefully , almost lovingly , he pulled the instrument across his knees and began to pluck at the strings with a plectrum fashioned from tortoise-shell . |
| 18 | Concern about the employment effects of new technology began to re-emerge at the end of the 1970s . |
| 19 | 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 . |