Example sentences of "[conj] begin [to-vb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole . |
| 2 | Where or with whom James received his training is not known , but by 1783 he was established in London ; and in that year he announced himself by publishing a pamphlet on A Method of Constructing Vapour Baths , and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy . |
| 3 | When the power rear doors opened , the men moved out to the left and right of their vehicles , into their battle positions , and began to shoot at the enemy . |
| 4 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 5 | One after another I picked up other stones and began to marvel at the diversity and beauty of them , that I had never noticed before . |
| 6 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |
| 7 | Recovering , Emmie seized the thin old hearthrug and began to beat at the flames . |
| 8 | ‘ Come on , ’ said Jimmy , and began to tug at the cabinet again . |
| 9 | Carefully , almost lovingly , he pulled the instrument across his knees and began to pluck at the strings with a plectrum fashioned from tortoise-shell . |
| 10 | For example , when she accompanies the boys on an illicit night-time visit to the woods in order to retrieve the gun from the crashed aeroplane , she drops the torch , breaks it ( having previously failed to hold it straight ) , and begins to cry at the thought of dead bodies . |