Example sentences of "began [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not long after the Health Service came into being that the economy began to go into one of its periods of crisis . |
| 2 | He was walking with his mum in Chicago when two men in a car began firing at three others . |
| 3 | A more sophisticated form of vernacular religious music of the Counter-Reformation was the madrigale spirituale which began to flower in 1581 with the publication of the first book of Madrigali spirituali a cinque voci by the Imperial Kapellmeister Philipp de Monte ( 1521–1603 ) , another Italianized Fleming . |
| 4 | She was born in Baltimore in 1915 and began singing in 1930 after moving to New York . |
| 5 | Other ‘ collectables ’ are the single sheet almanacks of the tradesman and workshop variety , and the products of the perennial ‘ Old Moore ’ who , possessed of the secret of eternal youth , began prophesying in 1699 and is still going strong . |
| 6 | But the facts strongly suggest that the current of liberation really began to flow in 1953 , the year not only of the Kinsey Report but of two significant debuts : those of James Bond and Playboy . |
| 7 | As the sermon wore on and he became more and more excited , he began to jump from one side , first to the middle and , by the time he was in full verbal flight , he managed to leap the entire length of the pulpit . |
| 8 | Earlier this year we began to meet with three other West Belfast groups with the view of jointly organising a conference on these issues . |
| 9 | The European Council began to meet in 1974 , at the prompting of France , which wanted the EC to have a guiding authority similar to the French presidency 's . |
| 10 | It began trading in 1971 as the subsidiary of a Germany company before being bought over by its management team in 1987 . |
| 11 | The company only began trading in 1988 for the refurbishing of high voltage equipment and its installation and commissioning . |
| 12 | Open Islamic expression began to revive from 1978 . |
| 13 | Jessamy pushed them irritably to one side and began to work on one of the dragons , filling in some of the more intricate details . |
| 14 | We began to work on two hander pieces — she took the pictures , I wrote the words . |
| 15 | ) The age at which this ‘ secondary ’ drug use began varied between 13 and 24 , although 82 per cent of these individuals were concentrated in the lower age band of 13–17 . |
| 16 | He began to write about one such P'daytaism , and then crossed it out . |
| 17 | Another exodus began at 6.30 a.m. on 1 September 1939 , when Glasgow children began assembling at 57 schools , 70,000 weans scrubbed and labelled for a bewildering adventure . |
| 18 | Margaret Loxton was born in London in 1938 and began painting in 1981 . |
| 19 | The samples go back over 30 000 years , and they show that after being constant for most of that time the methane concentration began to increase in 1580 ( Geophysical Research Letters , vol 9. p 1221 ) At the end of the 16th century , the methane concentration began increasing at a rate of 0.114 ppmv per century ( parts per million by volume ) and around 1915 the rate accelerated to the present figure of 2.5 ppmv per century — if the data can be taken at face value . |
| 20 | By doing so they tied their fortunes even more firmly to the popularity of the Soviet Union , placing a series of time-bombs under themselves which began exploding in 1947 and 1948 . |
| 21 | The indispensable starting point is the annual International Bibliography of Historical Sciences which began to appear in 1930 and is now published at Paris with the assistance of UNESCO . |
| 22 | Besides the obvious encyclopedias , most countries produce several annual or periodical repertories of useful information ; a well-known British example is The Statesman 's Yearbook , which began to appear in 1864 . |
| 23 | The Partnership Programmes began to appear in 1978 , tending to conform to a standard pattern . |
| 24 | Inspired by the example of his eldest brother Dick , he began boxing in 1937 , the year in which Dick made his professional debut . |
| 25 | He began to wilt after four weeks . |
| 26 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 27 | It is clear that the relative positions of Geological Magazine and Proceedings of the Geologists Association have declined in the proportion of thesis-related material published , and that the Scottish Journal of Geology became the primary vehicle for first publication of research results derived from Ph D theses in Scottish geology as soon as it began publishing in 1965 . |
| 28 | Scott could not succeed without outside finance , and soon this was supplied by David Astor , then editor of the London Observer , who put up half the money for a new venture , the Central African Mail , which began publishing in 1960 . |
| 29 | JOSEPHINE WILLIAMS was introduced to Medau in 1962 by Jean Parmiter and began training in 1963 ; qualifying and commencing teaching in 1966 . |
| 30 | After a promising start Rajiv 's administration began to falter in 1987 . |