Example sentences of "[pers pn] begin [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I began to pat at my pockets as if I really meant it but the barman shook his head . |
| 3 | So when I have to weigh up whether I can afford to trade in my battered old VW and think of those who have a BMW or Mercedes , then you begin to wonder at the sense of it all . |
| 4 | And then , when you find they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to look at yourself and realize what colour you are . |
| 5 | You begin to look at yourself and realize what colour you are . |
| 6 | ‘ You are not very interested in your ancestors when you are young , but when you get older you begin to look at the rock from which you are hewn . ’ |
| 7 | She began to thrust at him with her body ; their mingled breaths merged , their open mouths met , tongues touching . |
| 8 | She began to work at our factory at the age of 16 . |
| 9 | She began to work at nights because there were fewer people working in the factory then , and so it was easier to get into the photographic laboratory . |
| 10 | She began to look at it again for herself . |
| 11 | Fruit , surely , though there had not been much fruit on Ellen 's table , and bread , all children liked bread , familiar and comforting , but then Italian bread , baked with oil , was not English bread and she began to panic at the idea of him rejecting it and going hungry . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I told her of my mother Elethandian , your wife , and I would have told her more but she began to scream at me . |
| 14 | Idly she began to stab at the wet ground with it , but it struck something hard straight away . |
| 15 | ‘ She began to laugh at something I told her , and … ’ |
| 16 | In the second part we begin to look at some of the arguments which have been developed about the possible effects of new technology on the kinds of jobs available in the future . |
| 17 | A closer examination of the component parts of the code is given in chapter 4 , when we begin to look at the implications of the code in respect of standards of nursing care provided by the qualified nurse or health visitor . |
| 18 | The report of Domingue and Ingram ( 1978 ) , for the USA , indicates the emergence of the profession both in terms of status and in concerns for interpreter efficiency , and it is on this basis that we begin to look at the processes involved , comparing signed with spoken interpretation . |
| 19 | I know about the Islington survey , and I also share his concern about under-reporting in some areas of the country of some types of crime in particular , but let me continue with the facts before we begin to look at the solutions . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | We began to run at a great speed through the trees , and Silver was soon thirty metres behind us . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Four months : they began to move at four months , that was what the doctor had said . |
| 24 | They hardly expected to see the BMW waiting for them at the dockside , but after they had parked the car and got the ticket , they began to look at their watches , and each other . |
| 25 | As for Clive — did he begin to look at somebody else ? ’ she asked shrewdly . |
| 26 | Spurred by a sense of the growing opposition , especially after Chernobyl , it began to agitate at the grass roots . |
| 27 | No sooner had the CIG started work than it began to chafe at its restrictions and sought authority to start operating espionage networks abroad . |
| 28 | The simplest solution would be to raise grants to a civilised level and then to peg them to the movement of wages or prices , but this was not among the options considered by the government when it began to look at student funding . |
| 29 | It began to ring at the other end . |
| 30 | But his interest grew as he worked , and he began to aim at a comprehensive expository commentary on Epicurus . |