Example sentences of "[pron] began [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be best procedure if I began to answer a series of questions in a room from which Clements was excluded . |
| 2 | I began to carry a gun and a knife with me everywhere I went . |
| 3 | Unknown to Dana , I began writing a series of free-verse poems about the pictures . |
| 4 | I began to see a pattern to these puzzling events , a distinct and disturbing trend . |
| 5 | ‘ I began to draw a man busy digging potatoes in a field again . |
| 6 | I began to relax a bit . |
| 7 | While I was at Cambridge , I began to follow a rule of life which I hoped would prepare me for the priesthood . |
| 8 | I felt as if someone had stuck a knife into me — I started to hate Africa then and I went on hating it — I began to hate a lot of things I had n't minded before , when I was happy . |
| 9 | We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies . |
| 10 | I began to make a list . |
| 11 | I began to recognise a landscape . |
| 12 | Many years later when I first visited the States I began to understand a bit of how they felt , as I too was then in an alien land — and make no mistake , America is an alien land , for all that we share a language and many common roots . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was while watching the faces , that I began to get a mirror of my own doubts . |
| 14 | After about the fourth or fifth month into the course of treatments , I began to feel a lessening of the pain , but not once had she confided that anything was wrong . |
| 15 | I did n't really feel a thing until about 5.30 p.m. when I began to feel a sort of tightening of the stomach , not a pain . |
| 16 | As the campaign proceeded , I kept quiet as I began to have a vision of some grisly post-polling day ceremony in which I would be on a platform like a performance artist from the sixties , vomiting and gagging while attempting to ingest yet another page : ‘ You 're doing okay . |
| 17 | I began to have a series of nightmares where I experienced painful sensations up and down my spine , weird chanting and a feeling of terror . |
| 18 | Approved by the government were members of the Orthodox clergy who began to establish a parish and diocesan network in Siberia early in the seventeenth century . |
| 19 | Think how irritated you would be if you began reading a story with the opening sentence ‘ They were cooking apples . ’ |
| 20 | Sighing , she began to fill a carrier bag with essentials ; an insurance , she supposed , in case the worst happened . |
| 21 | But the results were good ; people praised her cooking lavishly , and she began to take a pride in doing it well . |
| 22 | But I had n't asked her to do so , and when she began making a nuisance of herself I told her she 'd have to leave our office there . |
| 23 | She began to write a journal of her tours ( apparently from notes made during her journeys ) in 1702 . |
| 24 | The ache in her head got worse and she began to imagine a pain under her breastbone . |
| 25 | Clara liked it as she had liked everything that afternoon , but even as she stood there and admired , and heard the history of the lump of mosaic , and listened to Martin 's views on Candida 's view on the social connotations of goldfish , she began to feel a sense of overwhelming fatigue . |
| 26 | In one sense the game took no time at all , in another it seemed to last forever , and there in the quiet room , opposite the quiet man , she began to feel a kind of peace . |
| 27 | She began to compose a letter in her head , then rejected the idea . |
| 28 | Yet the more she sipped the more sick she felt ; and then she began to have a cramp in her stomach . |
| 29 | The irony of the situation hit her as she began preparing a meal from the provisions she 'd brought with her . |
| 30 | With sudden resolve she began to prepare a beef goulash for dinner . |