Example sentences of "began [to-vb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A British engineer in the Kensington exchange came jolting out of his chair and began to search for a ‘ lock ’ on the transmitting number . |
| 2 | Here they also found the values of the market place , which stressed personal independence and self-gratification , and began to search for a sexual fulfilment which , Shorter . |
| 3 | Not long after acquiring Belle Vue Cottage she began to search for a piece of land in the Cotherstone area , preferably a fenced-i-meadow . |
| 4 | Then he took out a book from his desk and began to search for a name . |
| 5 | She reached into the Mini and lifted out her bag and began to rummage for a pen and paper . |
| 6 | I was involved in opposing the Vietnam War , began to write for a left newspaper , Black Dwarf and became part of the beginnings of the women 's liberation movement . |
| 7 | After three hours of continuous nibbling it seemed , I will confess , rather on the acid and insubstantial side , and I began to yearn for a bowl of pasta . |
| 8 | Sara began to look for a cup . |
| 9 | She began to look for a university job outside Cambridge . |
| 10 | But , in the summer of 1945 , he took a furnished room in Kensington and began to look for a suitable and convenient residence of his own . |
| 11 | The March Hare poured a little hot tea on its nose , and the Hatter began to look for a clean plate . |
| 12 | He began to look for a safe stance for the night … |
| 13 | So I began to look for a husband . |
| 14 | Eventually , they entered London , and Noah began to look for a quiet , cheap pub where they could spend the night . |
| 15 | His pacifism was couched in the violent language of subversion and revolution , and long before 1917 he began to look for a distinctive Scottish way out of the war . |
| 16 | He began to look for a job . |
| 17 | But it was when he began finding the 26 mile 385 yard distance — which he can complete in two hours and 57 minutes — ‘ about right for starters ’ , that he began to look for a new challenge . |
| 18 | Oag , formerly marketing director with a major computer industry concern in London , had grown tired of weekend commuting from Nairn , and began to look for a local company he could invest time and money in . |
| 19 | Sotheby 's began to look for an escape route : they could not risk the picture 's returning to the market and failing to hold its theoretical value . |
| 20 | This needed some clarification before we began to look for an answer . |
| 21 | Perhaps most disturbing from the point of view of the central authorities , the party organisations in the three republics , particularly in Lithuania , began to press for a greater degree of independence , establishing direct links with outside ruling parties and adopting their own programme and statute , within or if necessary outside the framework of the CPSU as a whole . |
| 22 | Largo Caballero , the anarchists ' habitual enemy , now began to call for a ‘ Workers ’ Alliance' embracing the Socialists , the CNT , the small Spanish Communist Party and the rest of the working-class left . |
| 23 | With the publication of the terms of Emancipation inflammatory pamphlets began to call for a mass uprising . |
| 24 | The local Parties , growing in strength , began to ask for a greater voice in decisions than was allowed under the 1918 constitution . |