Example sentences of "began [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 2 | Spurred by a sense of the growing opposition , especially after Chernobyl , it began to agitate at the grass roots . |
| 3 | Catesby instructed us to take a bench leaning against the far wall and , though the space was narrow , we began to pound at the door like besiegers breaking into a castle . |
| 4 | In the pre-civil war period , one group of clerics and laymen who shared this approach and who thus opposed the confrontational policies of Laud and his followers , began to meet at the house of Lucius Cary , Lord Falkland , at Great Tew in Oxfordshire . |
| 5 | Then the princess 's soldiers began to batter at the doors of the wooden fortress with their axes . |
| 6 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |
| 7 | A small pulse began to hammer at the base of Lindsey 's throat as she rose to her feet to pour more coffee . |
| 8 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 9 | How it was defended by those at the core of the community and how cracks began to appear at the periphery gives Hubauer the material to explore the hypothesis that extrinsic influences are likely to affect allegiances when scientists experience rival theories as incommensurable paradigms . |
| 10 | When the power rear doors opened , the men moved out to the left and right of their vehicles , into their battle positions , and began to shoot at the enemy . |
| 11 | He began to aim at the other man , who was reloading his Luger , but was stopped by the Doctor 's hand on his shoulder . |
| 12 | Where or with whom James received his training is not known , but by 1783 he was established in London ; and in that year he announced himself by publishing a pamphlet on A Method of Constructing Vapour Baths , and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy . |
| 13 | His fingers began to scrabble at the coarse edge of the steel plate . |
| 14 | The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole . |
| 15 | Idly she began to stab at the wet ground with it , but it struck something hard straight away . |
| 16 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 17 | And instead of seeing it as something God had ordained , we began to look at the exploitation of the poor by the rich in a political way , but using Christian concepts . |
| 18 | Though several economists in the late 1950s began to look at the economics of education , it was Schultz 's presidential address to the American Economic Association in 1960 that heralded the arrival of the human capital theory on the international academic scene . |
| 19 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |
| 20 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 21 | Very slowly an idea began to form at the back of his mind . |
| 22 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 23 | A few rich families began to emerge at the top of such societies and the numbers of poor cottagers grew significantly , but the old-established middling families long remained the backbone of many a rural community . |
| 24 | In the ACCs , the money supply began to accelerate at the beginning of 1970 . |
| 25 | One after another I picked up other stones and began to marvel at the diversity and beauty of them , that I had never noticed before . |
| 26 | Later , after I had qualified as a teacher and got married , I began to study at the university , teaching at a school during the day . |
| 27 | The little man began to kick at the tentacle in fury . |
| 28 | A tiny weeny hint of a plan began to tinkle at the back of my brain like a triangle at the back of an orchestra . |
| 29 | Then he began to hack at the door-frame . |
| 30 | And when she thought it was about to finish , the whip began to flick at the pegs . |