Example sentences of "[pron] began [verb] out [art] " in BNC.

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1 After a while I did something else I had n't done for several months : I began to rough out a poem .
2 She began to take out the postcards , revealing the snapshots underneath .
3 As Gedanken peered into the bubble she began to make out the spacecraft .
4 Presently , she grew a little more adjusted to the noise and she began to make out the details a little more plainly ; she could see that the captives were all young men , some of them not much more than boys , but certainly strong and lithe .
5 When she found a lot more shoots in different places , she decided they needed more air and light , so she began to pull out the thick grass around them .
6 This decided them that more work was needed to verify whether there was indeed fusion , and so they began to plan out a detailed strategy and designed an experiment — ‘ scaling it ’ in the sense that Fleischmann had learned in his days at Imperial College .
7 Almost immediately they began working out the details of their new counselling service — or , as they preferred to call it , their chat-line — and how and where they could fit it into their already busy schedule .
8 He began reading out the typewritten sheet in front of him :
9 But still Jack listened , and after a while he began to make out the quick flow of words .
10 Using black ink and cartridge paper he began to copy out a poem he had himself written , in a beautiful italic hand .
11 He began to beat out a rhythm on them , using a pair of long bones — perhaps the thighs of an ox , Cleo thought — as drumsticks .
12 Even then he had a special devotion to subterranean tracks and as the train came to the Wellington tunnel ( he and his parents had been on holiday to Cornwall that summer ) he began letting out a series of long drawn-out hooting sounds .
13 He began to work out the probable returns from his night 's work .
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