Example sentences of "[pers pn] began [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I was so relieved that I began to weep tears of joy but Liza was not similarly affected .
2 I began to read pieces about separatism written by women who I did n't know .
3 Their laughter so infuriated me that I began to have thoughts of revenge .
4 You began passing details of archive designs fourteen months ago .
5 She began to discuss illness with authority .
6 At what point McAllister 's fears finally disappeared beneath his loving patience , and they began to make love in earnest , neither of them could have said .
7 As he became more independent of booksellers he began to choose works for publication which suited his own taste .
8 Slipping free from his web , he began to snatch slips of paper out of the air .
9 He began to exhibit subjects from history and literature , and in 1841 two small fairy paintings , ‘ Titania Sleeping ’ and ‘ Puck ’ , attracted attention with their strong vein of poetic fantasy .
10 It was very soon after this that he began to show signs of dissatisfaction with the ecclesiastical situation in the north .
11 Despite the hospital specialist 's scepticism , he began to show signs of recovery .
12 It was only when he began having fantasies about space men that he was really in there with the hit .
13 He studied acting under the GI Bill and after touring in summer stock he began landing parts in television as heavies .
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