Example sentences of "[coord] began [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At more or less the same time , a heroin injector from Liverpool , who had also been dealing to finance his own habit , moved house to one of Wirral 's more affluent townships and began dealing in heroin on a large scale-in ounces and half-ounces . |
| 2 | A year later she met and began to live with C. , who was the father of her baby who was later to be stillborn . |
| 3 | Antony grinned in resignation at Connon and began searching for the tablecloth . |
| 4 | Tabitha 's headset suddenly locked into an ambient channel and began to tinkle with tinny salsa . |
| 5 | He dropped my wrists and began picking at the bread , rolling bits of it into little grey balls . |
| 6 | Then she married again , had three more sons — and began picking on her oldest . |
| 7 | She jerked a mouthful from between the spars and began to chew with quiet satisfaction . |
| 8 | When she emerged , she responded with a grunt to Melissa 's , ‘ Good morning , ’ and began wrestling with the bar that controlled the window shutters . |
| 9 | A blue Mini arrived and began manoeuvring into the limited space remaining as Melissa picked her way along the uneven path and knocked on the door of number three . |
| 10 | If he turned and looked at her , she might have to give a straight reply , but to his narrow back , which could have been the back of a much younger man , she began to tease , in the way that she had learned so many of her new friends liked , when they made similar inquiries too , like the painter who 'd lain on her bed and asked her earnestly if she 'd ever experienced simultaneous orgasm , or the musician who 'd volunteered he 'd show her a ‘ perversion ’ he was sure nobody would have demonstrated to her before , and began nuzzling between her legs . |
| 11 | Pulling them from under some old blankets , she sat down on the bed and began to leaf through the pages : photographs fell out , battered , uncherished , not stuck-in — this was no lovingly tended relic . |
| 12 | The girl sat up again , and began taking in deep breaths . |
| 13 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 14 | He looked away and began twiddling with the curtain cord . |
| 15 | Once it was clear that no demonstrations would take place , the students became nervous about the ‘ xuechao ’ and began to withdraw from any action which could have been construed as political activism . |
| 16 | In the Miss LA contest that followed which she lost Michelle met a commercial agent and began auditioning for adverts , which again she hated , but again swallowed her pride . |
| 17 | Through this kind of work , women became more and more politically conscious and began to participate in solidarity work with other sectors . |
| 18 | Rachel paused by her desk and began toying with the telephone cord . |
| 19 | Donna shifted the receiver to her other ear and began doodling on the pad . |
| 20 | But they saw nothing except a field-mouse , which came out of its hole and began furricking in a patch of seeded grasses . |
| 21 | As his boss turned away and began to stride down the corridor , Dexter noticed a wary look slither into Pargeter 's eyes . |
| 22 | That wo n't give anything away , ’ cajoled Deana , and it was at that moment that an open-topped , low-slung dark red sports car purred to an impatient halt directly in front of the foyer 's big glass doors and the unmistakable silhouette of Tom Russell sprang with athletic grace from behind the wheel and began to stride across the cement footpath towards the entrance . |
| 23 | He clenched his teeth , pulled back his shoulders and began to stride up the road . |
| 24 | The Feldwebel suddenly pulled the helmet sideways over one eye and began to sing in English : |
| 25 | They finished a rendering of a Burns song and then the flautist put down his flute and began to sing in a fine baritone voice . |
| 26 | Instead of staying carefully on his side of the screen — ‘ She goes left , I go right ’ — he suddenly stepped forward , centre stage , out of his position , out of the whole plot of the operetta , threw out his arms in the great expansive sexual gesture that never failed to work with the audiences , and began to sing in front of Therese , ignoring the screen , ignoring the action , making a total mockery of the whole theme of a bride and groom who marry without knowing who they are . |
| 27 | She gave him a hunted look and began to burrow in its depths to extract what was obviously going to be his present . |
| 28 | In 1866 he launched an ambitious plan to rebuild the college chapel and began fund-raising with a donation of £100 from the pope himself . |
| 29 | When the others returned , bringing the extra equipment , he took a field radio , stepped outside and began to transmit to the Hercules that was still circling around above them somewhere . |
| 30 | Stiffly , like some crude automaton , Vologsky clambered from the plane 's cockpit , dropped to the ground and began to march towards Major Tzann 's quarters . |