Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] began [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole . |
| 2 | Carefully , almost lovingly , he pulled the instrument across his knees and began to pluck at the strings with a plectrum fashioned from tortoise-shell . |
| 3 | Recovering , Emmie seized the thin old hearthrug and began to beat at the flames . |
| 4 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |
| 5 | One after another I picked up other stones and began to marvel at the diversity and beauty of them , that I had never noticed before . |