Example sentences of "[noun] began [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Wine bottles began to cluster at tables like sentries .
2 People on passing boats began to shout at Lucenzo , waving him down , but he seemed not to notice .
3 A vague suspicion began to tug at Benny 's mind , and she frowned in thought .
4 Having painted as a child , Stewart began to experiment at college ( the American College of London ) by applying patterns to everything in sight , from folding screens to lamps , and floor cloths to cutlery handles .
5 In this context of impending war , Nizan began clutching at straws .
6 Alarm bells began ringing at Mount Pleasant Primary School , Darlington , when Sophie the school hamster broke out of her cage , setting off burglar alarms and alerting the police .
7 In May 1960 the EEC began to look at ways of liberalising the movement of capital , and the following year issued the first regulations governing the existence of cartels .
8 In August 1961 Northgate began prospecting at Tynagh without a prospecting licence .
9 The artists began to hint at change ; Japanese prints were re-educating the European eye and African masks attracted the attention of the sculptor and painter .
10 Every year when the Nile began to rise at Cairo , a young virgin was dressed in bright apparel and thrown into the river .
11 The profits grew and the bank manager began to smile at Carrie whenever she paid in the weekly takings .
12 However , a trickle of collectors and speculators began to arrive at Zborowski 's flat early in 1918 , buying up Modigliani 's oil paintings , worth millions of pounds today , for three or four hundred francs .
13 But it was only when Susato began to publish at Antwerp in 1543 that their songs appeared in quantity and it was Susato who really launched Crecquillon with a book of 36 chansons à 4 parties in 1543 , though he had published Crecquillon 's greatest hit , ‘ Ung gay bergier ’ , in a miscellaneous collection the year before .
14 Wycliffe began to feel at peace with himself and the world .
15 They turned into an alleyway off Friday Street and Cranston began to bellow at passersby for the whereabouts of Parchmeiner 's shop .
16 As war in Europe approached , Yakovlev began looking at fighter and bomber designs and produced the Ya–22 twin-engined , high-speed combat aircraft which entered series production as the Yak–2 bomber and was later completely redesigned as the Yak–4 .
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