Example sentences of "[pron] begin [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a start , I begin with the premise that action makes a difference . |
| 2 | When pressed , she explains , ‘ I do very little preliminary work — usually one very rough sketch before I begin with the picture . |
| 3 | When pressed , she explains , ‘ I do very little preliminary work — usually one very rough sketch before I begin with the picture . |
| 4 | I begin at the foot of the column and toil my way up the page to find each story unedifyingly summarized in inch-high type . |
| 5 | Beckett 's Molloy expresses it , for example , when he remarks , ‘ I began at the beginning , like an old ballocks , can you imagine that ? ’ |
| 6 | I began at the age of 16 , and now I 'm over 60 . |
| 7 | I began with the desire to speak with the dead . |
| 8 | That is why I began with the hill towns : for they wear so much , so conspicuously , on their face . |
| 9 | Harold Davies covered the City Hall , the mayor 's office and the C.P.R. offices ; Jim Miller covered the Police Station and the High Courts , when in session , and I began with the funeral parlour beat and the Board of Trade office , plus weekly meetings and speeches at the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs in the Grant Hall Hotel . |
| 10 | I began with the observation that there is an area of the repertoire ( principally the First Viennese School ) for which Brendel displays an obvious affinity , even to the exclusion of such major pianist/composers as Chopin and Rachmaninov . |
| 11 | I began as the kind of feminist who said , " It 's not men , it 's the system , " but this journey convinced me that men and masculinity , in their everyday , individual manifestations , constitute a systematic bloc of resistance to the women of their own community and class . |
| 12 | ‘ I expect you want to ask me how I began in the theatre , ’ Stella said . |
| 13 | THE future of the European monetary system depends on three key political events in Europe , the first of which is the French National Assembly elections , which begin at the weekend . |
| 14 | First stop for the business law and economics student — who was top junior in 1991 — will be the Carlsberg Ulster Championships , which begin at the Boat Club on May 31 . |
| 15 | Her detailed report , which began with the call she had taken reporting the accident , included her call to the county ambulance , accounts from other men on the shop-floor , the foreman 's version of what happened , first aid given , and on-the-spot treatment that had been administered by the factory medical team . |
| 16 | In western as in eastern Christendom coronation was a religious rite which began with the anointment of the ruler with holy oil . |
| 17 | This enables organizations to continue the same system with salary increases , titles , superior offices and furnishings , cars , expense allowances , stock options , etc. , which are , after all , only more sophisticated examples of the process which began with the child 's first jellybean . |
| 18 | The soldiers ' departure marked the end of Russia 's nine-year and 50-day occupation which began with the airlift of troops into Afghanistan at Christmas , 1979 . |
| 19 | Modernism had had no truck with narrative momentum ; and Eliot 's Post-war plays , which began with The Cocktail Party ( 1950 ) , were always more compelling as moral analysis than as plot . |
| 20 | Continuing a process of democratization which began with the election of all 950 members for the Tirupati plenum by the party 's rank and file , elections were held for the first time in more than 20 years for party posts including the 10 elective posts in the party 's most senior decision-making body , the Congress working committee ( CWC ) . |
| 21 | An impromptu meeting was held in the foyer , which began with the crowd singing ‘ We shall not be moved ’ . |
| 22 | The origins of this popular movement lie in the first wave of pressure for disarmament , which began with the emergence of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) in 1958 and ended in 1964 , with its decline in the face of the new Labour Government 's failure to rid itself of nuclear weapons . |
| 23 | THE Border Golfers ' Association , which began with the amalgamation of seven clubs in 1893 and went on to play a major role in the development of the Scottish Golf Union , will launch a season of centenary celebrations at Kelso on Sunday . |
| 24 | The demonstrations , which began with the death of a former Communist Party leader on 15 April , 1989 , ended with an army assault on Tiananmen Square on 4 June that killed hundreds of people . |
| 25 | These agreements are the latest in a series of steps which began with the visit made by Gu Xiu Lian , Minister of the Chinese Chemical Industry , to Montecatini 's Italian headquarters . |
| 26 | The new agreement , due to expire in September 1992 , extended by a further two years the free trade which began with the suspension of ICO quotas [ see p. 36836 ] . |
| 27 | The ecumenical movement has reversed three centuries of division which began with the failure of the Savoy Conference in 1661 and the imposition of the Act of Uniformity , Today , Holy Communion is celebrated more frequently and with a set liturgy , often in an ‘ Anglican ’ way ; set prayers are common and sometimes take a responsory form ; the increasing use of a lectionary means that the choice of readings depends less upon the whim of the preacher and more upon an ordered scheme . |
| 28 | Although this book was published before many of the systems texts , and therefore is largely non-quantitative , it was refreshing in that it was a brief treatment , which began with the energy budget of the atmosphere and proceeded to include all aspects of the environmental system including the sea in the geosystem , a topic frequently ignored by physical geographers in the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 29 | The nature of that existence has been partly influenced by the actions of those millions of people who have lived during the period which began with the dawn of civilisation , and extends into modern times . |
| 30 | The growth of European Community funded farming has increased losses which began at the beginning of the century . |