Example sentences of "[conj] begin [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siegfried took a long shuddering breath then went over to the bread tin , extracted a loaf and began to saw at it . |
| 2 | The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Esther paid her first visit to Italy , where she spent three months at the Università per Stranieri in Perugia , learned some Italian , drank a great deal of wine , took up with a middle-aged American art historian and began to look at paintings . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |
| 10 | Recovering , Emmie seized the thin old hearthrug and began to beat at the flames . |
| 11 | Mahmoud gave a cry of disgust and began to beat at his legs . |
| 12 | For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes . |
| 13 | He lifted the oars and began to pull at them again , digging heavily into the water to his right , bringing the boat back onto a straight course . |
| 14 | ‘ Come on , ’ said Jimmy , and began to tug at the cabinet again . |
| 15 | Carefully , almost lovingly , he pulled the instrument across his knees and began to pluck at the strings with a plectrum fashioned from tortoise-shell . |
| 16 | For example , when she accompanies the boys on an illicit night-time visit to the woods in order to retrieve the gun from the crashed aeroplane , she drops the torch , breaks it ( having previously failed to hold it straight ) , and begins to cry at the thought of dead bodies . |