Example sentences of "began [verb] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | No sooner was he striding across that tedious countryside , pretending to be interested in disused châteaux and drab churches ( three months ! ) than he began to miss me . |
| 2 | A nagging doubt began to affect me when I observed a signpost to Cape Town . |
| 3 | We tend to think of these beautiful insects as being very brightly coloured but when I began experimenting I was unable to get convincing results . |
| 4 | ‘ It began to irritate me , as well as being very demoralising . ’ |
| 5 | As they began to know me better , other members of the medical staff began to talk to me . |
| 6 | And then when I went to London , I began to find I could n't . |
| 7 | ‘ I was thinking along the lines of a gentle 90-minute run … but gradually the women and the M60s and then even the M65s began to pass me . ’ |
| 8 | From out of this irritated lassitude , a conversation began to reach me . |
| 9 | Soon cool air began to reach me , and suddenly there was the sea . |
| 10 | Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone . |
| 11 | He grabbed me by the throat and began throttling me , all the while demanding her address . |
| 12 | It began to annoy me . |
| 13 | Calmly , in my silence , he began to pour me tea . |
| 14 | As we began to talk I began to realize that these people were just like me . |
| 15 | I think he began to resent marriage first and then he began to resent me . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ When they began whispering I thought we were boring them , ’ said Stevenson . |
| 17 | Sarah began to despise me due to my pregnancy . |
| 18 | At last there occurred , suddenly , a most strange event which I shall never forget ad which astonished me : the little girl flung her arms round my neck ad in a rush began kissing me frenziedly . |
| 19 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 20 | He let the night silently envelop and possess us , let time fall away ; then began to draw me back down the decades . |
| 21 | I took him on and we did a massive improvization on the spot and he began to respect me . ’ |
| 22 | I began to regret I did n't have a board with me . |
| 23 | It was then I began to believe I might have a future as an artist . |
| 24 | Peter came in and began to chat me up . |
| 25 | Her kindness broke the ice and as we began to chat I discovered that instead of feeling awkward I was eager to talk to her . |
| 26 | Halema settled herself more comfortably , adjusted her veils and began to question me . |
| 27 | He called the interpreter , who gave no sign that he had ever seen me before , and began asking me questions . |
| 28 | Suddenly I became a target for this lunatic , and he began to shower me with machine-gun bullets . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought I 'd be beaten , ’ Turi said , ‘ but I began to realise I 'd chosen the right route by not cutting inside fences . |
| 30 | It was during the summer months of 1968 that my father first began taking me to Walton junction , Liverpool to see what must have been the very last of the steam trains thunder past at 7 o'clock . |