Example sentences of "[pers pn] begin [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work .
2 ‘ The days grew warm and I began to hop around the cage and try to fly again .
3 ‘ For the first time I began to wonder about the camp and the people I should find inside it .
4 Do you know , that 's the first time I began to wonder about the name Raphael .
5 Some of the brothers were busy in the scriptorium but I was greeted courteously and no one objected when I began to leaf through the manuscript Southgate had left upon the table .
6 I began to talk with the priest .
7 Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time .
8 And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney .
9 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 .
10 I began to grapple with the man who was holding me .
11 He glared at me , quite beside himself with rage , and the whole scene seemed so absurd and nothing to do with anything that had really happened , that I began to laugh in a wild , helpless way , snorting through my nose .
12 Later , after I had qualified as a teacher and got married , I began to study at the university , teaching at a school during the day .
13 A little calmer , I began to write on the ground with the stick , ‘ Howard is a nut ’ , but was distracted by a tiny blue van in the south and was determined not to let it go by .
14 As she and one other laid their hands on me , I leant on their faith , and I began to speak in a new language words of praise to God .
15 Slowly , even reluctantly I began to integrate with the idea of Bristol .
16 McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’
17 I began to work on the dog with all I had .
18 Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book .
19 I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch .
20 Dawn broke as the field passed through a shuttered Bridgetown , and I began to pass through the field .
21 I began to feel under the weather on Thursday morning after leaving Haslemere .
22 I began to prepare in a small way to enjoy the Christmas in Bedford .
23 It was only when I bought a collection of 12 Nalevich drawings and documents that I began to think about a constructivist show .
24 A cat dashed over my feet at one point and I began to think about the disembodied hand in the film .
25 I began to think about the changes the coming wedding would bring .
26 So I began to look for a husband .
27 I began to despair in the local press I noticed an advert for an evening class , cookery for men being the young one in the family I plucked up courage and enrolled but it was great , with great apprehension that I went to the first class .
28 Then I began to walk along the old coach road .
29 The sun had gone now and , once on dry land , I began to walk to the stockade .
30 It was only weeks after the speech that I began to read in the press that actually her theme had been positive and she had presented a positive forward view .
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