Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] begin [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once or twice I have heard her begin to tell the story of those days to some young man , but then halfway through a sentence she would go white with anger , knock back her gin and go silent . |
| 2 | So after they had gone I began to use the tower . |
| 3 | When I 'd finished we began to see the funny side of it and ended up laughing . |
| 4 | But as soon as I had the door shut I began to ransack the flat for the sheet music I keep for special occasions such as Christmas , bar mitzvahs , weddings and so on . |
| 5 | With the wealth which he had accumulated he began to finance the formulation of a major innovatory social and economic policy based upon four publications — Coal and Power ( 1924 ) , Land and the Nation ( 1924 ‘ Green Book ’ ) , Britain 's Industrial Future ( 1928 ‘ Yellow Book ’ ) and We Can Conquer Unemployment ( 1929 ‘ Little Yellow Book ’ ) . |