Example sentences of "began [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Georgiades began to go one way round the gallery , his men the other . |
| 2 | I began to see one way out of our dilemma . |
| 3 | Then he began to see that friendship and love , shown to our marriage partner , our friends and to God himself , are ultimately the most important dimensions of life . |
| 4 | She began to see small craft darting like dragonflies between the soaring galleries . |
| 5 | I began to see another face in the posters . |
| 6 | If he stared long enough at his own face , he began to see another creature there , himself but not himself . |
| 7 | But in February 1681 many witnesses began to see more advantage in making themselves acceptable to the government than to the Whigs , and in stating that attempts had been made to suborn them to give evidence . |
| 8 | Began to see last night , he wrote , that duck-rabbit effect only variant on boxing-match . |
| 9 | Also , Lister 's discovery of the importance of antisepsis made surgery , which up till that time had been a hazardous technique , a safe procedure , and with the development of anaesthesia , surgery suddenly began to enjoy great popularity as a panacea for many ills . |
| 10 | It was a standard contract for an unknown songwriter , but as the Police began to enjoy enormous success , so Sting 's value in the market-place rose . |
| 11 | This began to promote excessive erosion and Aboriginal concerns relating to infringements of their sacred sites which abound in the region . |
| 12 | As the situation worsened more border police entered the area and began firing live ammunition into the crowd . |
| 13 | After the Second World War they began to support African nationalism . |
| 14 | She picked up a piece of paper and began drawing little cameo pictures of the bowl of fruit on the sideboard , of the flowers in the garden , bending under the wind . |
| 15 | This essay will seek to show Ministers would indeed have good reason to be terrified if ordinary people began preferring constitutional theory to government practice and acted on their preferences in their judgment of politicians . |
| 16 | Parallel with these , and with the encouragement of his friend Sir Walter Scott , whose own house at Abbotsford by Atkinson had pioneered the revival of old Scots forms , he began building hybrid Scots-English , neo-Jacobean houses at Milton Lockhart and Tyninghame in 1829 , reaching , with Bryce 's help , the full range of Scots detailing in his spectacular reconstruction of Thirlestane in 1840 and the large house he and Bryce built at Inchdairnie , Fife , in 1845 . |
| 17 | With the improvement of transport during the nineteenth century , building materials were more frequently carried over greater distances , and soon after the opening of railways houses began to lose that harmony with the countryside so characteristic of the older cottages . |
| 18 | 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 . " |
| 19 | In 1936 the British began to plan colonial broadcasting for indigenous people , but these plans were shelved when world war broke out a second time . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , within the executive , the Treasury in 1961 accepted the Plowden Committee 's proposals and began to plan public expenditure on the framework of a five-year rolling programme . |
| 21 | The G7 nations began pressing last year for international laws aimed at protecting the world 's forests , but North and South have remained divided over should foot the bill . |
| 22 | The F2B creaked through a 180-degree turn and began photographing another strip . |
| 23 | In 1944 , the government began to provide central support for workshops for the blind and disabled people which allowed the Edinburgh factory to invest in its future . |
| 24 | As the 1960s went by , cynics began to observe that barrack building in an overseas territory was a sure sign that it would soon be granted its independence ! |
| 25 | The expansion of learning , which had started in the second half of the fifteenth century , now began to attract Royal attention . |
| 26 | IBM went through a similar tough patch in the early seventies ( when the ‘ Open Window ’ began to encourage early retirement at 55 ) . |
| 27 | In 1963 the ageing Adenauer finally resigned and the new Chancellor , Ludwig Erhard , began to establish tentative trade links with eastern Europe . |
| 28 | Thanks to the help of Edna and Bert , Harriet soon began to establish some kind of order and routine at Four Winds . |
| 29 | From the 1880s thousands of activists began to establish direct contact with workers on the factory floor and acquired detailed knowledge of workers ' conditions and grievances . |
| 30 | Soviet officials began to accept that ASEAN was not an American- or Western-controlled body , although they remained ambivalent about the developing emphasis on regional political cooperation within ASEAN . |