Example sentences of "and begin [verb] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gazzer grabbed the wheelchair and began to push it along the paths in between the flower-beds . |
| 2 | He rebuilt the library and began stocking it with the central texts of secular and religious learning which he had made available at Bec . |
| 3 | Ignoring her repeated instruction for him to get out , he unrolled the scroll and began spreading it over the desk , using the paperweight and penholder to secure its curling corners . |
| 4 | Then , slowly , she reached for her brush from the dresser , and began to slide it through the unruly tangle of her hair , taming the fly-away curls until they settled into a softly gleaming curtain that fell over her shoulders . |
| 5 | The gang manhandled the 18-foot caravan through the gap in the fence and began pushing it across the field towards the road . |
| 6 | Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up . |
| 7 | Leo carried the pile of crockery into the kitchen and began to load it into the dishwasher . |
| 8 | She lifts from the floor a leather Gladstone bag , and begins to load it with the things she will need for the day : well-thumbed , much underlined and annotated copies of Shirley , Mary Barton , North and South , Sybil , Alton Locke , Felix Holt , Hard Times ; her lecture notes — a palimpsest of holograph revisions in different-coloured inks , beneath which the original typescript is scarcely legible ; and a thick sheaf of student essays marked over the Christmas vacation . |