Example sentences of "began [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The founder of the theory of scales which is commonly used as the basis for social measurement is the psychologist S.S. Stevens , whose ideas began to crystallise in the 1940s in response to a challenge issued , in 1932 , by physicists and psychologists of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to " assess the possibility of " " quantitative estimates of sensory events " " . |
| 2 | The larks had not been up long when the first cars began filtering into the parks . |
| 3 | She began to go through the whole thing in her prayer and then realized that God of course would know anyway , so she simply asked if it could be that Timothy Gedge was possessed by devils . |
| 4 | Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time . |
| 5 | Very slowly , she began to go down the stairs , step by step , wincing every time one creaked and glancing over her shoulder every ten seconds or so . |
| 6 | The so this alleyway has been here since at least sixteen ninety , probably rather earlier when the house began to go down the drain as it were , down the plughole . |
| 7 | But after a while she wanted a change from her routine and began to go on the weekly trips regularly . |
| 8 | The twins also began to see towards the end of the book that Piggy was very clever and started to show him some respect . |
| 9 | As will be discussed in Chapter 10 , the first big generation of owner-occupiers began to retire from the 1960s onwards . |
| 10 | The knee itself began to slide into the dark , smooth pastel paper on the wall ; smoothly and neatly . |
| 11 | They turned , staying in the centre of Cheapside as the melting snow began to slide from the sloping tiled roofs . |
| 12 | Commercial Union began to cope with the temporary loss of its headquarters building by making the maximum use of available space elsewhere . |
| 13 | She closed her eyes to hide her revulsion as he pressed his open mouth against hers and began fumbling with the buttons of her bush shirt . |
| 14 | When he saw Duclos striding back across the compound dragging a young Annamese boy behind him , he smiled quietly to himself , stepped back into his bedroom and began fumbling with the buttons of his silk shirt . |
| 15 | Its strength was a nose for commerce which soon manifested itself , so that by the twelfth century , the authority of an effete aristocracy began to dwindle as the power of the merchants correspondingly grew . |
| 16 | Dunan 's group began loping towards the Rorim , leaving two bodies behind them on the moonlit ground . |
| 17 | As we crossed ground that became increasingly boggy , the vegetation increasingly salt-spattered and sparse , Tony began to enthuse on the likelihood of our seeing geese and red-necked phalaropes . |
| 18 | Anna turned , saw me waving , and began to amble through the line of cars with her nose n the air , looking entirely unconcerned about her own and everyone else 's safety . |
| 19 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 20 | ‘ The African guide was nowhere to be seen so Slash picked up the guy 's rifle and began firing into the air , trying desperately to scare the elephants away , ’ said another friend of the star . |
| 21 | Charlie now found himself in front and began firing at the Germans as their heads popped up from behind the dug-outs . |
| 22 | ‘ Police began firing on the trapped mass of people . |
| 23 | Spurred by a sense of the growing opposition , especially after Chernobyl , it began to agitate at the grass roots . |
| 24 | She began to drive to the outskirts of Grantley . |
| 25 | She started the engine without waiting for an answer and began to drive along the track winding down the mountain . |
| 26 | He began to beat at his head with his gloved hands as his face began to sink into the floor . |
| 27 | One of Gilbert 's gloves flew off , and the next time his hand hit the floor it stuck and began to sink into the carpet pile . |
| 28 | The creature began to sink beneath the water , pulling the boat along with it . |
| 29 | She positioned herself on a front bench , laid out her pastels and board , and began drawing under the eyes of the judge , who , be all accounts , turned a shade of puce . |
| 30 | She positioned herself on a front bench , laid out her pastels and board , and began drawing under the eyes of the judge , who , be all accounts , turned a shade of puce . |