Example sentences of "[pers pn] began [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a glimmer of self-preservation I began to reason that to be a martyr to an unwanted marriage was one thing , whereas to look like a fool in the eyes of all the world was another . |
| 2 | ‘ But , after a time , I began to see all his ideas as sort of odd , not charming eccentricities , but … you know , symptoms . ’ |
| 3 | I began to see little old ladies clutching their pension books and garages called Krash Kare and Oxfam shops and Salvation Army hostels . |
| 4 | That 's why I began to see less of him . |
| 5 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 6 | I began to see another face in the posters . |
| 7 | I began to realise that life like this could not last for ever and so I asked to go back to the Cheshire Home for a holiday . |
| 8 | After I began to earn more money than he did . |
| 9 | From then on I began to interpret each nocturnal sound as a footstep or as a bolt sliding back , and in the misery of the night I turned round and round in bed , my nightdress winding itself tighter and tighter about me , while a little voice inside me complained , ‘ I tried to do right , and now look what you 've done to me . |
| 10 | I began to believe all those stories about the Revie selection policy . |
| 11 | Then I began to land some good punches . |
| 12 | Walking back to the club that night and recalling old Martin 's letter , I began to understand some of the qualities that make a successful courtier . |
| 13 | I began to understand some of Holmes ' plan . |
| 14 | After a while I began to understand some of the noises that the people made to each other . |
| 15 | Towards the end I began to get more and more glimpses into my past and at last my wits were fully restored . |
| 16 | I began to worry many years ago when I heard a young artist say at a Whitechapel Art Gallery discussion , ‘ I 'm in the painting business , not the explanation business ’ . |
| 17 | FIGURE 5 After the initial laying in of colour I began to introduce more of a feeling of form to the objects while retaining the strong sense of pattern |
| 18 | It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization . |
| 19 | After studying Timo Metsola I began to think that was all eyewash — that the profiles had a more sinister purpose . ’ |
| 20 | I began to think more and more about my family and my home . |
| 21 | I began to doubt this and I said so in my talk . |
| 22 | I began to read all the books that I could find about electricity and its terrible power . |
| 23 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 24 | I think I began to have more of an influence as I settled into the group . ’ |
| 25 | In the next few weeks , I began to have some very interesting conversations with the King . |
| 26 | And I began to discover some recent local history as I delved deeper into this pit of hell . |
| 27 | When you began to make all sort of when c contacts began to be made between erm you and South Wales in terms of support |
| 28 | The umbilical cord and the afterbirth were still inside me , so she began to yank this baby and I said " Excuse me , I 've still got a bit inside me . " |
| 29 | Donna rubbed both hands across her face , her body quivering as she began to regain some warmth , some feeling in her extremities . |
| 30 | Even so , most of it was so pointedly on target that she began to leave some of her cynicism aside . |