Example sentences of "[pers pn] began [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The days grew warm and I began to hop around the cage and try to fly again . |
| 2 | ‘ For the first time I began to wonder about the camp and the people I should find inside it . |
| 3 | Do you know , that 's the first time I began to wonder about the name Raphael . |
| 4 | Some of the brothers were busy in the scriptorium but I was greeted courteously and no one objected when I began to leaf through the manuscript Southgate had left upon the table . |
| 5 | I began to talk with the priest . |
| 6 | Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time . |
| 7 | I began to grapple with the man who was holding me . |
| 8 | Later , after I had qualified as a teacher and got married , I began to study at the university , teaching at a school during the day . |
| 9 | A little calmer , I began to write on the ground with the stick , ‘ Howard is a nut ’ , but was distracted by a tiny blue van in the south and was determined not to let it go by . |
| 10 | Slowly , even reluctantly I began to integrate with the idea of Bristol . |
| 11 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 12 | I began to work on the dog with all I had . |
| 13 | Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book . |
| 14 | Dawn broke as the field passed through a shuttered Bridgetown , and I began to pass through the field . |
| 15 | I began to feel under the weather on Thursday morning after leaving Haslemere . |
| 16 | I began to think about the changes the coming wedding would bring . |
| 17 | The sun had gone now and , once on dry land , I began to walk to the stockade . |
| 18 | It was only weeks after the speech that I began to read in the press that actually her theme had been positive and she had presented a positive forward view . |
| 19 | The problem , as I began to discover over the years , does n't lie with the composer , it lies with the interpreters and what is expected from the interpreters by people who have dubious taste . |
| 20 | Very slowly , she began to go down the stairs , step by step , wincing every time one creaked and glancing over her shoulder every ten seconds or so . |
| 21 | She began to march towards the door , but Theda ran after her and grasped her arm . |
| 22 | But before she had covered a quarter of the distance she began to complain about the light , high-heeled shoes she was wearing . |
| 23 | She was delighted by the carefree lightness of her voice as hastily she began to move to the side of the bed , inwardly quaking but determined not to reveal by the merest movement her reservations to him about revealing her total nakedness by the growing light of day as it filtered through the perpendicular blinds . |
| 24 | She began to move through the house as she had done before , opening doors , now trying to force doors which would not open . |
| 25 | She began to paint after the birth of her first child in 1973 . |
| 26 | She began to drive to the outskirts of Grantley . |
| 27 | She began to relax into the massage almost immediately . |
| 28 | She began to walk towards the door , but the Doctor stopped her with a look . |
| 29 | She began to walk towards the worm 's head . |
| 30 | She began to walk through the wood , and after a while she came to a little house . |