Example sentences of "[pers pn] begin [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I began to work on the dog with all I had . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She began to beat on the worm 's flesh , trying to wake the children , calling , shouting , yelling . |
| 5 | So we began to ponder on the circumstances which might have made it necessary for such a tiny place to be defended . |
| 6 | The first seven members of the Roseberry co-operative had been unemployed for an average of five years and seven months when they began working on the Langridge Crescent site , and their growing band of colleagues has continued to include those frequently bypassed by mainstream employers in the construction industry : a deaf and dumb carpenter , a former labourer with a history of heart trouble , a young woman training to be a painter and others . |
| 7 | Beginning in September they began to work on the current German and Austrian week ( 17 to 21 May ) searching for consignments spanning the centuries and media . |
| 8 | Apparently at this particular time there was a considerable amount of traffic on the road in question and traffic from one direction had halted in order to allow that the young girl and her friend to cross the road they began to cross on the zebra crossing but , as she reached the centre of the road Mrs was driving her vehicle in the opposite direction and she failed to stop the young girl , in her teens , was unable to take , avoiding acci action and she was knocked down as she crossed the road . |
| 9 | Slowly it began to dawn on the pair that nobody else could possibly represent their work . |
| 10 | In May it was announced that the fleet name ‘ London TransporT ’ would be used and it began to appear on the waist panels of cars as repainted . |
| 11 | In the autumn of 1854 , however , after the allied landing in the Crimea , he began to dwell on the domestic hardships to which the war was giving rise . |
| 12 | With a kind of stolid tranquillity he began to reflect on the day 's work ahead . |
| 13 | He began writing on the cheque again . |
| 14 | Taking a ballpoint pen from his shirt pocket , he began to sketch on the paper table-cover . |
| 15 | He began hammering on the door and calling out Maidstone 's name . |
| 16 | His business career remains equally obscure , but it is likely that he began working on the rougher side of the tavern trade . |
| 17 | He began to work on the body , aiming for the solar plexus all the time . |
| 18 | That realisation , as it begins to dawn on the Tory backbenches , will be a rather worrying one for his parliamentary colleagues . |