Example sentences of "[conj] began [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , working in the artificial intelligence centres that began to open in the 1950s and 1960s , computer scientists began to make progress of a sort . |
| 2 | The picture that began to emerge in the early 1980s was not encouraging . |
| 3 | The two main rivals that began to emerge in the early 1980s were Thomson , the traditional market leader , and Intasun , a fast growing holiday and leisure group of companies . |
| 4 | The Masterpiece , a collection of folklore about the body and its functions , was probably the single most popular source of information on sex relations and childbirth , and the continuing publication of this work was possibly the last remnant of a much stronger popular demand and usage that began to grow in the nineteenth century with increasing literate audiences demanding knowledge . |
| 5 | A blue Mini arrived and began manoeuvring into the limited space remaining as Melissa picked her way along the uneven path and knocked on the door of number three . |
| 6 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 7 | They finished a rendering of a Burns song and then the flautist put down his flute and began to sing in a fine baritone voice . |
| 8 | Other guests now rose to leave and the two English envoys got up and began to move amongst the different groups . |
| 9 | Steve pulled the duvet over the two of them and began fiddling with the remote control . |
| 10 | Here they also found the values of the market place , which stressed personal independence and self-gratification , and began to search for a sexual fulfilment which , Shorter . |
| 11 | On reaching the fire , Joseph jumped out and began wheeling off the thick long hose pipe from the engine . |
| 12 | He took a small pin from the sleeve of his doublet and began to scrape between the yellow stumps until he extracted small , grey fragments still wet with mucus . |
| 13 | The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole . |
| 14 | Where or with whom James received his training is not known , but by 1783 he was established in London ; and in that year he announced himself by publishing a pamphlet on A Method of Constructing Vapour Baths , and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy . |
| 15 | ‘ Come on , then , ’ he said quietly , and began to jog down the bloody street . |
| 16 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |
| 17 | He found Carter 's knife in his pocket and began hacking through the silky bonds . |
| 18 | In the early 1950s he used his creation to improve the size of the Aberdeen Angus and began to outcross with the red Beevbilde to produce a new breed of black beef cattle which combined Angus quality with the Lincoln 's fast weight gains . |
| 19 | So Clemente and his FA were taken aback when England returned from the Swedish disaster and began pushing for an away fixture at anywhere in Spain that could be called ‘ cool ’ . |
| 20 | But after a while she wanted a change from her routine and began to go on the weekly trips regularly . |
| 21 | Mr Kronweiser sprang into his earlier stance of crouching flabby tiger , then with a deprecatory smile he relaxed stiffly and began rummaging in the top drawer . |
| 22 | Kirov stepped into the street and began crossing towards the open park on the opposite side . |
| 23 | Some Australians came out of the shower room and began arguing with the merry sub-human guard : |
| 24 | The demons noticed the injured body and began to fly over the struggling figure . |
| 25 | The volatile combination of passion and laughter was so overwhelming that Virginia shut her eyes and tangled her fingers in the ruffled dark hair and began to drown in the exquisite taste and texture and sensation of kissing Guy and being kissed back very comprehensively in return . |
| 26 | She pushed the microphone aside , and began to speak in a firm voice , used to public speaking , hands leaning forward on the table , one occasionally raised to emphasise a point . |
| 27 | Then she put her cup down and began to speak in a soft , sad , dreaming voice that seemed to weave a spell of silence in the room . |
| 28 | Pascoe rippled through the pages of his notebook , stopped , coughed and began to speak in an impersonal monotone as before . |
| 29 | True enough , Morrissey disregarded his original bedsit self pity and began to write from the third person . |
| 30 | But , in the summer of 1945 , he took a furnished room in Kensington and began to look for a suitable and convenient residence of his own . |