Example sentences of "began [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farmers began producing two flocks a year ( which substantially reduced their costs ) and the breed changed from the traditional bronze or black strain to a white-feathered bird . |
| 2 | As the situation worsened more border police entered the area and began firing live ammunition into the crowd . |
| 3 | During the early ninth century , the Vikings of Norway , Sweden and Denmark began raiding Anglo-Saxon colonies on Britain 's eastern coasts and within that century they became dominant in the north and east . |
| 4 | Russia wished to use the Teleuts as a buffer against the Dzhungars , but in the end they were overwhelmed by a superior power and began raiding Russian lands again around 1700 at the behest of their new masters , as did the Kazakhs further west . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The company needed workers , and so began building small terraces of houses for its labourers to live in . |
| 8 | Few people believed that a market for such high priced machines existed , but Cray continued to increase sales and growth , until eventually many other companies from around the world began building such supercomputers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He then began preaching Wycliffite views to enthusiastic congregations in and near the town . |
| 11 | Consequently when commercial artists and manufacturers began using these photographs as reference for comic strips , book illustrations , box tops etc. they assumed the reel to be a speaker grill . |
| 12 | During the 1970s , many fishermen were forced from the anchoveta fishery and the associated use of purse-seine vessels , and began using smaller boats , setting gill-nets to catch coastal fish species . |
| 13 | They began farming three years ago , when loans were easy to get and their bank was happy to lend them all they needed . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The F2B creaked through a 180-degree turn and began photographing another strip . |
| 16 | One lieutenant-colonel in his prime died of a heart attack , and the German M.O.s began expressing serious concern about the physical state of the troops . |
| 17 | The father-of-three , who used to smoke 60 cigarettes a day , claims that Imperial Tobacco failed to provide health warnings when he began smoking 30 years ago . |
| 18 | He buried himself in books on comparative religion , and began publishing scholarly tracts and books about the goddess . |
| 19 | In the 1920s Pearson resumed his acting career but also began publishing short stories , essays , and journalism . |
| 20 | As lavish as always with his hospitality Victor began dispensing free cognac and coffee in celebration of what might have been a prodigal son 's return , introducing his regulars to D'Arcy and he to them . |
| 21 | Headteachers began filling empty reception class places with under-fives in the Seventies because the low birth-rate had caused a shortage of five-year-olds . |
| 22 | The 37-year-old began training 16 weeks before the event , running about 40 miles a week . |
| 23 | Significantly , Melrose and Jed-Forest , border rivals who began developing local youth talent years ago , are today among four unbeaten teams setting the title pace . |
| 24 | It quoted a Polish couple who arrived in Hungary yesterday as saying that they were in a large shop on the main square when two or three thousand people began chanting anti-Ceausescu slogans outside . |
| 25 | Hopper 's film , which he first began writing four years earlier , had now also become a touch dated but that was not the major problem . |
| 26 | He began writing these experiences for a film and when he produced his manuscript it was partly autobiographical . |
| 27 | The experiment I was doing all those months ago when I began writing this book , which I described in Chapter 2 , involved using the sugar fucose as a precursor for glycoprotein . |
| 28 | TWO fishermen were rescued by the crew of another vessel yesterday as their boat began sinking five miles off Aberdeen . |
| 29 | Thomas , from Blackhall , County Durham , and 15-year-old Joanne Lackenby began dating last Christmas and saw each until May . |
| 30 | Alex Griffiths , Marks & Spencer 's fish executive , was surprised at the idea that the company might have even contemplated using Billingsgate when it began selling fresh fish nationally four years ago . |