Example sentences of "began [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following this unhappy enterprise , Douglas began producing the biggest picture of his career , Spartacus , which Anthony Mann was set to direct . |
| 2 | We began producing the big catalogues to go with the shows . |
| 3 | Two brown pelicans flapped past as I began shaping the broken ends of Masquerade 's shattered planking . |
| 4 | In 1903 a German syndicate began building the present sanatorium and the Hospital of Marmeleiros . |
| 5 | Leaving Russia in 1918 , he began building an international reputation for uncompromising modernism . |
| 6 | Despite the rapid growth of ill feeling between Minton and Vaughan , their home at Hamilton Terrace attracted many visitors , who turned up as and when they wished , some hoping for roast beef at breakfast as Minton frequently began cooking a large joint at eleven o'clock at night . |
| 7 | Juron held his knife to the dead man 's brow and began sawing the monomolecular edge through bone . |
| 8 | At seven-thirty next morning , I put on my running shoes and green army jeans and began jogging the eighteen miles to Reggane . |
| 9 | When he was nineteen , Reza Shah decided that the Crown Princes marriage was due and so he began trawling the Middle East for the most suitable wife — from a dynastic point of view . |
| 10 | I began seeing a Freudian analyst . |
| 11 | He also began using the fashionable technique of mixing wax resists with gouache and watercolour , a technique which Minton once described as ‘ a matter of the successful steering of accident ’ . |
| 12 | Ever since the first distant sounds of music and odd snatches of alien speech began interrupting the 1920s ' world of Morse , better ( and louder ) reproduction of audio has been at the forefront of development priorities for engineers . |
| 13 | By the late 1660s it is almost certain that , as Thomas Shadwell [ q.v. ] suggests in The Medal of John Bayes ( 1682 ) , he began employing the young Dryden to write prefaces , commencing a relationship that developed through the 1660s and 1670s when Herringman bought up the copyrights to most of Dryden 's work . |
| 14 | And to aid this he began numbering the main verbs . |
| 15 | Lothian Regional Council began acquiring the various disused lines in 1981 and the programme of converting them to cycleway/footpaths will be continuing until the early 1990s . |
| 16 | Quickly , he ducked through the unadorned side door of the building and began climbing the four flights of rickety wooden stairs . |
| 17 | The two island republics cast their lot with him after Japan began eyeing the Western Pacific as a potential dumping ground . |
| 18 | Most talk occurred among the four non-Wesleyan groups although in 1886 Hughes and his Methodist Times began urging a total reunion which would create one church . |
| 19 | It was not until the last decade of Nicholas 's reign that a Governor of Eastern Siberia began recommending a forward policy in northern China , and not until the accession of Alexander II that he gained the ear of the tsar . |
| 20 | The prosecution also alleged that in the early hours of Nov. 24 , 1986 , when investigators began searching the National Security Council offices for documents relating to the affair , Poindexter had erased more than 5,000 files from the memory of his computer . |
| 21 | About 1867 Deacon , with valuable assistance from Ferdinand Hurter [ q.v. ] , began seeking a better way : in 1870 they claimed success ( Chemical News , vol. xxii , 1870 , pp. 157–60 , and Journal of the Chemical Society , vol. x , 1872 , pp. 725–67 ) . |
| 22 | The USSR also began developing a second major naval support complex at the port of Mersa Matruh . |
| 23 | In her fifties she began developing an elaborate theory-part religious , part mystical — on the natural supremacy of women and the need to return to a matriarchal society . |
| 24 | Maria Carlita Rex Doran began developing the new fuel in 1980 following a government plea to scientists to devise new indigenous power sources to meet the country 's severe energy shortage . |
| 25 | When they moved into this house in January 1945 Edie began writing the first of two consecutive five-year diaries . |
| 26 | At the same time he began writing the book-length account of his theory that was published as On the Origin of Species at the end of 1859 . |
| 27 | All four brothers were in a band together and began writing the musical while on the road in Africa and Europe . |
| 28 | Many of the teachers began acting the same way , believing the Headmaster might punish them too if they did n't follow his example . |
| 29 | From Oct. 28 , for the first time in 45 years , Lufthansa began operating a regular service out of ( West Berlin 's ) Tegel airport with nearly 400 flights a week . |
| 30 | WEST BERLIN — East Berlin yesterday began jamming the cheeky private radio station 100,6 broadcasting from the Western half of the city . |