Example sentences of "began when a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It began when a lorry carrying drums of paint burst a tyre and went out of control , careering through the central reservation . |
2 | It began when a mare , belonging to Marianne Gothberg , was cut round the vagina . |
3 | The drama began when a neighbour was awakened by the dead man 's wife . |
4 | On the Pembrokeshire border lies Efailwen , a small village where the Rebecca riots began when a toll gate was burned in 1839 . |
5 | The WWF/Exxon Chemical relationship began when a group of trainee managers approached WWF to ask whether they could become directly involved with a WWF project . |
6 | On May 1 a Croat was shot dead in the mainly Serbian village of Brsadin ( near Vukovar ) , and on May 2 shooting began when a group of Croatian policemen entered Borovo Selo near Vukovar to look for three missing colleagues . |
7 | It all began when a group of musicians from Presteigne called Marengo went to Prague and met Czech fiddle player Honza . |
8 | Moreover , since it came to be accepted by many schools that a pupil could not study these separate subjects at A level unless he or she had already studied them at O level ( although in the 1950s it had been intended that O levels should be ‘ bypassed ’ by those who would study a subject at A level ) the domination of the university faculties began when a pupil was 14 . |
9 | It all began when a woman threatened to tie herself to a willow tree . |