Example sentences of "[noun prp] began [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | * Other words which carry presuppositions are the adverbial words and phrases which mean " again " ( ITERATIVES ) : Emily Brontë began writing the novel once more . |
| 2 | For a while they strolled in silence before Corbett began to ask the Prior about his vocation to the monastic life , enjoying the sardonic replies and surprised to find that the Prior was both a distant kinsman to Robert Bruce and a keen herbalist , interested in medicine , with a passion for concocting samples , potions and cures . |
| 3 | Maxham began to scratch the other knee-cap . |
| 4 | Halema began to describe the life of the desert djinn who people the underworld . |
| 5 | With more violent shakes of the head , Eleanor began demolishing the second tissue . |
| 6 | But by the middle of the twenties , when Ramsey began to study the matter , a new vision appeared . |
| 7 | The service also proved a modest success , and Branson began exploring the possibility of flying to Dublin , and to Miami , on a route which had not been taken up by a British carrier since the collapse of Laker . |
| 8 | As a modest beginning to the work of the Communication Research Centre , two or three students in the English Department at U.C.L. began to study the use of language in public communication . |
| 9 | Joe was already out of the kitchen and half-way across the yard and Bella began to put the dishes together . |
| 10 | After a week or two 's good behaviour Nigel began to feel the need to prove to himself that he could pick up a genuine , bona-fide amateur about the same age as Caroline — someone young enough to be his daughter , in other words . |
| 11 | At the turn of the century William and Dorothy Wordsworth began to extol the beauties of the area . |
| 12 | Riding on again , down the road which they thought would be the easiest route to the Fire Court , Fenella began to have the feeling that the twisty Tree stumps were not Tree stumps at all , but horrid , stunted living things and that malicious ancient eyes looked out from their depths . |
| 13 | He had come on as sub just as Tottenham began to turn the tide against an Everton side who had torn them apart in the first half . |
| 14 | Cornelius began to feel the seeds of panic taking root in his stomach . |
| 15 | In the eighteenth century , particularly after 1770 , the population of Spain began to share the general European increase , rising by four million to over ten million . |
| 16 | Despite announcing the projected two-year trip to the southern hemisphere expressly for this purpose , Gould began to publish the first parts of his Birds of Australia before he had even left . |
| 17 | At the same time Gould began to organise the production of the plates and letterpress for Birds of Australia . |
| 18 | Kim began to study the time these meridians were formed in different species and in a way , echoing Burr 's reports , found that within the embryonic chick , for example , they manifested within fifteen hours of conception ! |
| 19 | As they approached the curved horn of the dead bull , Nathaniel Sherman began pumping the hand of his eldest son in congratulation . |
| 20 | Slowly Curtis began to unscrew the cap . |
| 21 | Pete began to set the pieces out on the board . |
| 22 | Grainne arched her back like a cat , and Fergus began to peel the thin robe from her shoulders , kissing her bare skin , feeling her response , feeling the swing of her hair against his shoulders and chest , and exulting in it , for there is something so intimate and so wholly precious about the feel of a loved one 's hair against your skin … |
| 23 | They came to the ‘ eye ’ of this storm , below a sullen , winter sky , and at once Tallis began to recognize the deep canyon which she had hollowed those days before , with Morthen . |
| 24 | Realising how little they knew about the subject , she and two staff midwives from Wythenshawe began to research the needs of deaf women during pregnancy . |
| 25 | The bell of St Mary Le Bow began to toll the curfew , the sign that all trading should cease , as four urchins pulled a huge yule log up to the door of one of the great merchants ' houses . |
| 26 | The creation of the CBO began to redress the balance of power . |
| 27 | Some 10 000 years later , a rising Atlantic began to press the mouth of the Susquehanna back toward its source , forming an estuary — a partially enclosed bay where fresh and salt water mix — which took its present form about 3000 years ago . |
| 28 | And after she had succeeded in doing it once , Sylvia began to reverse the whole process so that those signs of panic would never appear again . |
| 29 | The calling continued for a few moments and then , with a cry of ‘ bitch ’ , to her horror , Nicky Scott Wilson began to make the most blood-curdling noise as he bayed her name to the night sky , like a wolf . |
| 30 | It was clear that the Manchu was permitting his opponent to initiate all the attacking moves and , as the combat progressed , Burun began to appreciate the skill with which the mock battle was being controlled . |