Example sentences of "began [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny Marr began to slide towards potential alcoholism , drinking a bottle of Remy Martin a night , and the band began to drift apart . |
| 2 | As soon as they were taken from shelter , they began to slide on locked wheels over the yard , and then to tilt . |
| 3 | Fears grew for the tens of thousands of pelicans which are in danger of dying of thirst in Australia , as the country began recovering from devastating floods . |
| 4 | Shells now began to fall with increasing regularity among closely packed men . |
| 5 | Outside snow began to fall in large fat flakes . |
| 6 | Rain began to fall in large heavy drops . |
| 7 | Opposition also began to mount among concerned citizens of the area , an opposition which manifested itself both individually and through the Ringaskiddy Residents ' Association , formed two years previously , which had not involved itself in any controversy over previous planning applications for industrial projects in the area . |
| 8 | When it was realised that , in proportion to body weight , women 's brains were in fact heavier than those of men , scientists began to search for other measures of difference . |
| 9 | The police began to search for various people but our security system was very good and we had been warned about what was happening . |
| 10 | Even the left-wing Tony Benn was relatively quiescent , not least perhaps because he was now the bringer of good news at the Department of Energy , as North Sea oil began to flow in large quantities . |
| 11 | I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs . |
| 12 | He followed Blore into Cotswold-type Tudor cottage houses from 1824 , and in the same year , concurrently with Smirke , began experimenting with Elizabethan and Jacobean forms , culminating first and Dupplin and St Fort ( 1828–30 ) , far more suave than any of the parallel English or Irish examples . |
| 13 | He began experimenting with other drugs in use at the time and , using his extensive knowledge of botany , he investigated the effects of a number of medicinal plants , both on himself and on a small circle of friends and pupils . |
| 14 | In 1784 he began experimenting with small model balloons , and on 4 October that year he became the first Englishman to fly a hot-air balloon , with a short flight in Oxford . |
| 15 | He began experimenting with different drugs and drank excessively . |
| 16 | Numerous stories began to circulate of American machinations and claim-jumping at the expense of the British . |
| 17 | They began to meet in private houses where they read sermons and prayed together . |
| 18 | Ever since the Sumerians , the Assyrians and the Persians began trading with other early civilisations thousands of years ago , Oman 's natural harbours have played an important role in world history . |
| 19 | Poland 's exports to the Soviet Union had fallen sharply since the two countries began trading in hard currency in January . |
| 20 | Poland and the Russian Federation signed a trade agreement on Sept. 4 to bridge the gap caused by a sharp fall in exports to the Soviet Union , formerly Poland 's main customer until the two countries began trading in hard currency in January and the Soviet side was unable to pay for most of its purchases . |
| 21 | The second plaintiff to remove itself from the action was Thai Farmers Bank , of which the judge in the case commented : ‘ The other development is more disturbing in that from January 1983 the local manager of Thai Farmers Bank began to provide to other banks references for Berg which either misrepresented the true position of Berg 's accounts with Thai Farmers Bank or at the least concealed the true position without making it clear that there was highly relevant information about Berg which they were declining to give . |
| 22 | Jack began climbing through thick , murky fog , at about 7,000ft they once more saw the Moon , but Brown could get no reading . |
| 23 | However , as we have noted before , by the end of the nineteenth century Englishmen began to worry about American competition , especially in cheaper means of manufacture . |
| 24 | And her breath , as she smiled , began to catch in weak , involuntary sobs ; so that he bent over her , his cheek against hers , his arms embracing hers in spectral and impotent comfort . |
| 25 | I 'm partial to a nice pun , and BT 's image began to soar in direct ratio to the growing number of commercials on the air . |
| 26 | When , in 1856 , Nikolai Pirogov began to write about educational matters in the press , the government responded by re-establishing the long-dead Academic Committee of the Ministry of Education . |
| 27 | He began to shake with suppressed laughter . |
| 28 | She stopped as he began to shake with suppressed laughter , then added indignantly , ‘ I 'm serious , Robert . |
| 29 | Cuban workers and students began returning from Eastern Europe in the wake of political changes there . |
| 30 | Experimental results showing the involvement of RNA and protein synthesis in memory formation could readily be accommodated to the new molecular thinking , but what really raised the temperature of the whole enterprise were reports that began to appear of bizarre memory experiments involving planaria . |