Example sentences of "and began a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next day I moved to 40 Beaumont Street and began a vastly expensive career of alcohol . |
| 2 | The mainsheet traveller tore off the deck and began a chain reaction : next to go was the boom vang , and this caused the boom to fracture at the gooseneck , overloading the mast check-stay which parted . |
| 3 | In the novel , Philip became ill and was left behind there to die while Arthur returned to London and began a new course of study . |
| 4 | Besides he read Meredith , Hardy , Pater , Jefferies , some Flaubert ( ‘ for my French is fairly good ’ ) , and began a more careful study of German . |
| 5 | Ten minutes ahead on the clock , Short castled on the queenside and began a pawn advance which secured him the initiative . |
| 6 | Fearing that Greece and Turkey would end up on the other side of that iron curtain the American President Truman declared that their security was vital to the Western powers and began a substantial programme of aid . |
| 7 | Suddenly anxious to direct the conversation away from Mummy and her preferences , Marie proposed a formal engagement and began a hunt through the button boxes and trinket chests of the house for a ring . |
| 8 | He adored Coronation Street so much that he wrote mock scripts for the show and began a correspondence with the show 's producer Leslie Duxberry . |
| 9 | On 2 September Coleridge parted from Southey in Bristol — Southey said it was ‘ like the losing a limb ’ — and began a characteristically slow and interrupted progress back to Cambridge for what would prove to be his final term . |
| 10 | He made me put it down and began a long , fast conversation with the soldier . |
| 11 | But he could n't , so he climbed to the disabled man 's perch , and began a sensitive , confident probe , and discovered quite soon how far the man had progressed , and finished the work , fast and easily . |
| 12 | I turned away , cast a last assessing glance at Laurentide Ice , who looked coolly back , thanked the enthusiastic dragon for her co-operation ( prim acknowledgement ) and began a slow walk back through the train , looking for gaunt-face . |
| 13 | The following year NERC , the new parent body , accepted this inherited undertaking and began a search for a suitable location . |
| 14 | British Airways denied the claims and began a counter-claim for libel and defamation . |
| 15 | In 1845 she was re-registered in the names of a ship-owner , a farmer , a master mariner and a sailmaker , and began a new life in Newcastle upon Tyne . |
| 16 | It was there that he met up with William 's younger brother John — they were contemporaries , having both been born in the same year — and began a friendship that ended only with John 's death in 1793 . |
| 17 | One of the H. Fire development bright colours within only a few days and began a reign of terror . |
| 18 | The United Provinces , as they were then known , had been under Habsburg rule and began a 40-year war with Spain for their national independence in the 1570s . |
| 19 | The girl dropped her hand , and began a dreary groping in her skirts . |
| 20 | He rubbed his hands , and began a light , smart , quick-stepping about the kitchen , to the forsythia which he touched delicately , to the window , and back to her . |
| 21 | They crossed the city and began a long , slow climb up through the Alfama district . |
| 22 | A month ago they , together with the males , left the burrows on the floor of the forest inland where they had spent most of the year and began a long march to the coast . |
| 23 | Hungary served once again to offend Western democratic sensibilities and began a more difficult phase of the Cold War . |
| 24 | Yet the new terms failed to prevent Britain becoming the largest net contributor to the EC budget by 1979 , when Margaret Thatcher came to office and began a determined campaign to cut Britain 's payments . |
| 25 | It was when I got into the Law Courts and began a long series of litigation lasting twenty five years " . |
| 26 | He did not know and could not say : he tore off the silly beard and began a sentence about resignation , which he could not finish . |
| 27 | But the hands came cunning and swift and raised a harsh green fabric up , until there was darkness over his head and he was paralysed with fear as he was lifted up and began a long and terrible journey . |
| 28 | We recovered our manners and began a series of , ‘ Thank yous ’ , and , ‘ You are a good man , Mahmoud ’ , and , within seconds , Terry had it tuned to the BBC World Service and its theme , ‘ Lili Bolero ’ . |
| 29 | Natasha rose abruptly and began a slow circuit of the court , with Charlotte beside her . |
| 30 | Bella 's fingers reached down and began a slow upward movement on the inside of Johnny 's thigh , the long scarlet nails making a faint scratching sound on the material of his trousers . |