Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] begin [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The next day I bought a suitcase and some clothes and I began to live the life of Edward Pinkhammer . |
2 | Whilst waiting to go to Spring Harvest my visits to church became more regular and I began to realise the truth of God 's Word . |
3 | My breath smoked and I began to feel the wind-chill even through my sailing jersey and the special anorak I had bought for southern latitudes . |
4 | The emperor gave Venice exceptional mercantile privileges , and she began to form the trading posts and colonies — quite in the manner of ancient Athens — which may still be discerned , with Genoese and Turkish towns adjacent , along the Bosphorus . |
5 | ‘ Look , Jamie , see this ! ’ she said , and she began to wind the wool so fast that it tangled up in a big knot and the ball bounced right out of her hand and rolled underneath Grandma 's chair . |
6 | Stand former British heavyweight and light-heavyweight champion boxer Bunny Johnson alongside the diminutive British international sprinter Ainsley Bennett and one begins to get the idea . |
7 | The search becomes desperate and one begins to get the impression that Aristotle alone is going to fit the bill . |
8 | By the end of April 1921 , the work was finished and they began to furnish the upstairs flat , mainly with items brought over from the house at Poplar , and to stock the shop with cameras , films and processing equipment . |
9 | Its dullness stifled Huy 's heart , and he began to question the sense of feeding his belly at the expense of his mind , though such noble sentiments could hardly be his to indulge . |
10 | He woke up every day and went to work at the ice-cream parlour , but he began to hate the taste , the sight , the very thought of it . |
11 | There is nothing philosophical about this in itself , but it begins to create the habit of mind that begins to take for granted the natural superiority of science and rational thinking . |