Example sentences of "began [to-vb] a [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then the priestess — for that is what she was — began to weave a web while talking about her reasons for being at Greenham . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I began to carry a gun and a knife with me everywhere I went . |
| 9 | Then the Mayor of Fulham thought people should be cheered up , and began to plan a party . |
| 10 | Within twenty minutes a car drove up to the family majlis and began to unload a meal for us all . |
| 11 | Hitherto such bodies had been under the sway of the main committee chairman , but now they began to acquire a life of their own . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | As the programmes developed , some teams began to include a range of options to meet different needs and preferences . |
| 14 | I only began to smell a rat when he could n't come up with the documents he claimed to have . |
| 15 | In 1983 we began to provide a course for students with severe learning difficulties . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For six months he was a sub-editor , but then began to write a column for the paper called ‘ By the Way ’ . |
| 22 | Jannie sat down at one corner of the great kitchen table and began to write a shopping list . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She began to write a journal of her tours ( apparently from notes made during her journeys ) in 1702 . |
| 25 | During the winter of 1936 – 37 , the impossibility of isolating Madrid began to impose a change of tactic , and the slow , relentless erosion of the Republican defences became a necessity which was presented by Franco ( for example , in his conversation with Faldella in mid- February 1937 ) as a deliberate choice . |
| 26 | After that point , I started to write some much more original stuff and we began to find a style of our own . ’ |
| 27 | The barman laughed and began to pull a couple of pints . |
| 28 | Development work continued and in about 1980 they began to launch a series of compact lamps , with tube diameters as little as 16 mm , in novel and innovative shapes and sizes . |
| 29 | In the 1970s and early 1980s , a number of observers began to chart a decline in the civic culture . |
| 30 | He picked up a corkscrew and began to open a bottle of wine . |