Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] at [art] beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | But instead of going at the end of the process of building the new Europe , the Wall has gone at the beginning . |
| 2 | If he 'd explained at the beginning — and it did n't cancel out the fact that he 'd lied to her , did it ? |
| 3 | If she 'd confessed at the beginning it would n't have been so bad , but how could she tell them now ? |
| 4 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 5 | If they 'd settled at the beginning we would n't have had to go through this battle . |
| 6 | With Girlschool reconvened , and the arrival of Jackie Carrera on bass , they seem poised at the beginning of a newish era , but what have been the high spots of the band 's history so far ? |
| 7 | idea of the theory , which is something that probably should have come at the beginning but it does n't matter too much . |
| 8 | ‘ I suppose they might have done at the beginning , ’ he said , ‘ but by the time I can remember we had become part of the place really . |
| 9 | Perhaps I should have said at the beginning , although I hope it 's obvious , that the speaker of this poem is , of course , coming back to the town where he was born . |
| 10 | I am no longer the chairman of ICI , having retired at the beginning of April 1987 . |
| 11 | I think you just got thrown at the beginning and I think he you off and |
| 12 | The Hound of Ulster is supposed to have lived at the beginning of the first century AD . |
| 13 | There Peter I had developed at the beginning of the century a system by which a specified number of peasant households had to provide , in periodic levies , a recruit to serve for life . |
| 14 | The sales boom that Modigliani had enjoyed at the beginning of the year faded . |
| 15 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 16 | She said she was a widow , her husband , Malcolm , had died at the beginning of her pregnancy . |
| 17 | In France the system was much more centralized , and it might be that the stiffness of the Napoleonic system was one reason why France had lost to Germany the prominent place she had had at the beginning of the century when that system was set up . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's the best start I 've had at the beginning of an English county season , ’ the 6′ 5½ ″ strike bowler admits . |
| 19 | Announced to the Federal Assembly on Dec. 28 by Federal Premier Ante Markovic , this was the first devaluation since his government had introduced at the beginning of 1990 a convertible dinar pegged to the deutschmark [ see p. 37194 ] . |
| 20 | This departure from the T'ang 's normal practices was remarkable enough in itself , but what had happened at the beginning of the meal had surprised even his father . |
| 21 | Dismissed in the last months of his life as a spent force who would not match the powerful energy invested in the compositions which he had created at the beginning of his nine-year career , Basquiat briefly recaptured , by the unhappy circumstances of his death , an image of glamour and a wave of speculation which pushed the prices of virtually unsaleable pictures to $500,000 . |
| 22 | The crisis of modernism had arisen at the beginning of the century as a consequence of the profound , perhaps too rapid , infiltration of Catholic institutions and consciousness by the scholarly methods and intellectual attitudes and presuppositions which had developed earlier in predominantly Protestant and liberal milieus . |
| 23 | It was the end to a protracted period of trauma and uncertainty for the management and employees of the company , which had begun at the beginning of the year when the rumours that Gardner Merchant was for sale had begun to circulate . |
| 24 | In essence it was a development of policies which Lloyd George had advocated at the beginning of his political career . |
| 25 | For the reasons we have endeavoured to state , we give our opinion on this matter that as to the question of law raised by the Attorney-General , which we have cited at the beginning of this judgment , the answer is ‘ No . ’ |