Example sentences of "[pron] began [to-vb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | After three hours of continuous nibbling it seemed , I will confess , rather on the acid and insubstantial side , and I began to yearn for a bowl of pasta . |
| 2 | So I began to look for a husband . |
| 3 | Not long after acquiring Belle Vue Cottage she began to search for a piece of land in the Cotherstone area , preferably a fenced-i-meadow . |
| 4 | She began to look for a university job outside Cambridge . |
| 5 | This needed some clarification before we began to look for an answer . |
| 6 | He began to look for a safe stance for the night … |
| 7 | His pacifism was couched in the violent language of subversion and revolution , and long before 1917 he began to look for a distinctive Scottish way out of the war . |
| 8 | He began to look for a job . |
| 9 | But it was when he began finding the 26 mile 385 yard distance — which he can complete in two hours and 57 minutes — ‘ about right for starters ’ , that he began to look for a new challenge . |