Example sentences of "began take " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several years the market playing was limited but early in 1988 , finance officers began taking options out on a massive scheme . |
| 2 | The Joint Command began taking risks . |
| 3 | Three more hospitals in the north began taking only emergency cases — the Newcastle-upon-Tyne general hospital , the Newcastle Royal Victoria Infirmary , and the Derbyshire Royal Infirmary . |
| 4 | Trained as a painter and textile designer , she began taking pictures with an old Instamatic . |
| 5 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 6 | Once he was wealthy enough , he began taking time out each winter to fulfil personal projects , ‘ It 's my way of putting something of myself into my work . |
| 7 | About the second week in December he began taking his still into the night lavatory every evening . |
| 8 | For more than a week before the great day we were collecting anything that would burn and literally dozens of individual fires began taking shape in what was known amongst boys as ‘ The Crot ’ . |
| 9 | Green was greatly encouraged by West 's suggestion that he should become an artist himself , and soon after going back to Manchester began taking painting lessons . |
| 10 | As the pressure of numbers built up , Sir Samuel Hoare , the Quaker Home Secretary , began taking his lead from Hailey , telling the cabinet that the funds of the refugee organisations ‘ have been strained to the utmost ’ . |
| 11 | It was during the summer months of 1968 that my father first began taking me to Walton junction , Liverpool to see what must have been the very last of the steam trains thunder past at 7 o'clock . |
| 12 | Cliff Paul and Barry Sheppard began taking in paying guests as an extension of their enthusiasm for entertaining friends . |
| 13 | When he arrived he settled into a studio in the Wall Street area and immediately began taking its narrow streets and their bustling crowds of people as his subject matter . |
| 14 | Taken together , Carter 's handling of economic affairs , the hostage crisis and foreign policy in general combined to give him ‘ the lowest job approval ratings of any president since Gallup began taking these measurements in the 1940s ’ . |
| 15 | Harry shouted , banging his fist on the arm of the settee — and the wager provoked such interest among her customers that Mother Russell ( who was grizzle-haired and rather mournful ) began taking side bets , with the odds against Harry . |
| 16 | Whilst living at Bedford Gardens he began taking Bobby Hunt around his favourite haunts . |
| 17 | When Ricky began taking Jenny out she was surprised to learn that Minton paid him money and had taken him to the Caribbean . |
| 18 | Through these his knowledge of and interest in the Broads grew , and he began taking pictures for himself . |
| 19 | But bumps and bruises were n't the worst injuries he received : early in the race , fired by the desire to produce the perfect picture , Evans began taking photographs without his sunglasses on , and in the Sahara , that 's a deadly mistake . |
| 20 | Pa began taking our family wash over to Hambledown every Saturday evening in pillowcases . |
| 21 | The girl sat up again , and began taking in deep breaths . |
| 22 | Finally she lifted her small suitcase onto the bed , flipped it open and began taking clothes out , sliding them into drawers . |
| 23 | Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports . |
| 24 | She picked it up and set it on her knee , then began taking out the yellow and black wooden pieces and setting them on the board . |
| 25 | Almost immediately the national press began taking up the campaign . |
| 26 | Some 2,500 out of over 8,000 workers began taking the masks when they went into the forest to cut wood , collect honey or fish . |
| 27 | Following an incident on June 3 in which Chung Won Shik , the new Prime Minister , was assaulted by students , the government began taking a tougher line with the protesters [ see pp. 38291-91 ] . |
| 28 | She began taking A-levels while working as a secretary for the Commission for Racial Equality , and , urged on by an old Somervillian , wrote to Somerville . |
| 29 | NRA chairman Lord Crickhowell said that after the Authority began taking samples many works had improved performance . |
| 30 | She frowned as she began taking mugs from the cupboard . |