Example sentences of "began [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gusev likened himself to an industrious spider , sitting at the heart of a complicated web , pulling a thread here , tightening one there , until finally he began to see a pattern . |
| 2 | I began to see a pattern to these puzzling events , a distinct and disturbing trend . |
| 3 | As its influence expanded , it began to promote a model of evolution that took far greater account of geographical factors . |
| 4 | Shocked is making plans to sail with her father , who long ago began building a boat , until marriage and fatherhood distracted him from finishing it . |
| 5 | Soon he began manufacturing a range of agricultural and dairy equipment , much of which was exported . |
| 6 | The Ministry of propaganda did what it could to play down such disasters and tried for as long as possible to preserve the illusion that they were not important , but Fascism now began to lose a lot of its popular support . |
| 7 | He unrolled the parchment , scrubbed it with the pumice-stone and gently blew the fragments away , dipped his quill into the unclasped inkhorn and began to draft a letter to Burnell . |
| 8 | Then the priestess — for that is what she was — began to weave a web while talking about her reasons for being at Greenham . |
| 9 | He watched with the direst of misgivings as Cleo began slapping a path for herself through the wilderness ahead . |
| 10 | They descended a flight of steps , entered a classroom block by a side-door and began to thread a route through corridors and passages busy with bustling knots of purple-blazered schoolboys . |
| 11 | I began to carry a gun and a knife with me everywhere I went . |
| 12 | Then the Mayor of Fulham thought people should be cheered up , and began to plan a party . |
| 13 | Five years ago he began seeing a psychotherapist , but stopped after two and a half years of treatment . |
| 14 | Within twenty minutes a car drove up to the family majlis and began to unload a meal for us all . |
| 15 | Hitherto such bodies had been under the sway of the main committee chairman , but now they began to acquire a life of their own . |
| 16 | The government , which had long spent a disproportionate amount on higher and secondary as opposed to primary education , began to implement a programme to establish universal primary education . |
| 17 | As the programmes developed , some teams began to include a range of options to meet different needs and preferences . |
| 18 | In the case in which the defect in the law was first exposed , Marsh v. Arscot the defendant who was drunk began using a stream of abusive language directed at the policemen who were investigating his suspicious presence in a car park . |
| 19 | I only began to smell a rat when he could n't come up with the documents he claimed to have . |
| 20 | In 1983 we began to provide a course for students with severe learning difficulties . |
| 21 | Hobhouse began keeping a diary during his round-the-world honeymoon in 1893 and continued to do so for five years . |
| 22 | One leader took between fifteen and twenty people , hired a hall , broke the link with the Cobham Fellowship and began to establish a church which has grown to some sixty members . |
| 23 | He began to establish a reputation in the late 40s through radio performances , and soon came to the attention of Sam Phillips , with releases on the Chess and Sun labels , playing as a one-man band . |
| 24 | Approved by the government were members of the Orthodox clergy who began to establish a parish and diocesan network in Siberia early in the seventeenth century . |
| 25 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |
| 26 | Then he began to recite a litany of the individual bones and of the past Commanders who had held this fortress-monastery for the Emperor . |
| 27 | For six months he was a sub-editor , but then began to write a column for the paper called ‘ By the Way ’ . |
| 28 | Jannie sat down at one corner of the great kitchen table and began to write a shopping list . |
| 29 | The evening meal had been re-scheduled for 8.30 p.m. ; and with time to spare , after throwing his own large hold-all on to the counterpane of his single bed , Ashenden joined a few of the other tourists in the Residents ' Lounge , where he took some sheets of the hotel 's own note-paper , and began to write a letter . |
| 30 | She began to write a journal of her tours ( apparently from notes made during her journeys ) in 1702 . |