Example sentences of "[noun pl] and begin [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He clenched his teeth , pulled back his shoulders and began to stride up the road . |
| 2 | The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole . |
| 3 | Carefully , almost lovingly , he pulled the instrument across his knees and began to pluck at the strings with a plectrum fashioned from tortoise-shell . |
| 4 | She fell down on her knees and began crawling across the floor . |
| 5 | However , if you pursue the associations and begin to delve into the latent content , what you often find is that those day 's residues , which are specific to that day , as Theresa was saying , relate to more general erm situations , or indeed to things that actually happened in the past which that particular aspect of that particular day might remind you of . |
| 6 | The men got to their feet and began filing through the door on Gregson 's left , muttering to themselves and each other as they went . |
| 7 | Miguel slipped off his casual shoes and began to pull on the black cuban-heeled boots he picked up from the floor . |
| 8 | Madeleine picked up a pair of pinking shears and began to slice through the material . |
| 9 | Gary , 26 , left school with just four CSEs and began working as an engineer . |
| 10 | He dropped my wrists and began picking at the bread , rolling bits of it into little grey balls . |
| 11 | Honor looked down at her gloves and began to fiddle with the buttons . |
| 12 | He followed her when she moved towards the cliffs and began to climb up the path that curved and twisted on the cliff-face . |
| 13 | He and a friend separated from the others and began to move towards the car . |
| 14 | Just as certain behavioural habits develop , such as vomiting after every meal , so women with bulimia can develop habitual thoughts and begin to think in a bulimic way . |
| 15 | One after another I picked up other stones and began to marvel at the diversity and beauty of them , that I had never noticed before . |