Example sentences of "begin [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So when I have to weigh up whether I can afford to trade in my battered old VW and think of those who have a BMW or Mercedes , then you begin to wonder at the sense of it all . |
| 2 | You can begin racing at the age of six , in the automatic class . |
| 3 | The report of Domingue and Ingram ( 1978 ) , for the USA , indicates the emergence of the profession both in terms of status and in concerns for interpreter efficiency , and it is on this basis that we begin to look at the processes involved , comparing signed with spoken interpretation . |
| 4 | ‘ You are not very interested in your ancestors when you are young , but when you get older you begin to look at the rock from which you are hewn . ’ |
| 5 | A closer examination of the component parts of the code is given in chapter 4 , when we begin to look at the implications of the code in respect of standards of nursing care provided by the qualified nurse or health visitor . |
| 6 | I know about the Islington survey , and I also share his concern about under-reporting in some areas of the country of some types of crime in particular , but let me continue with the facts before we begin to look at the solutions . |
| 7 | Second , the opt-out will soon begin to fray at the edges . |
| 8 | Before Mr Boutros-Ghali 's announcement , Red Cross officials in Sarajevo said the city 's soup kitchens would begin closing at the weekend because they were running out of food . |
| 9 | Half a dozen of Chris Crackenthwaite 's apprentices pass down the street just as the girls begin to arrive at the Market Hall factory . |
| 10 | You may begin reading at the top of the page , Rebecca . " |
| 11 | Rumours were beginning to circulate at the time , concerning Robert Dudley and Her Sovereign Majesty , Elizabeth 1 . |
| 12 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 13 | Charlie now found himself in front and began firing at the Germans as their heads popped up from behind the dug-outs . |
| 14 | Spurred by a sense of the growing opposition , especially after Chernobyl , it began to agitate at the grass roots . |
| 15 | Catesby instructed us to take a bench leaning against the far wall and , though the space was narrow , we began to pound at the door like besiegers breaking into a castle . |
| 16 | In the pre-civil war period , one group of clerics and laymen who shared this approach and who thus opposed the confrontational policies of Laud and his followers , began to meet at the house of Lucius Cary , Lord Falkland , at Great Tew in Oxfordshire . |
| 17 | Then the princess 's soldiers began to batter at the doors of the wooden fortress with their axes . |
| 18 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |
| 19 | For the sake of appearances , he picked up another brush and began swatting at the sleeves and lapels of his suit . |
| 20 | A small pulse began to hammer at the base of Lindsey 's throat as she rose to her feet to pour more coffee . |
| 21 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 22 | How it was defended by those at the core of the community and how cracks began to appear at the periphery gives Hubauer the material to explore the hypothesis that extrinsic influences are likely to affect allegiances when scientists experience rival theories as incommensurable paradigms . |
| 23 | Charged with the setting up of a central UK single professional register of nurses , midwives and health visitors , and mindful of its responsibilities for enhancing professional standards , the UKCC first began looking at the issue of mandatory refreshment for nurses and health visitors while still a shadow body in 1982 . |
| 24 | Only it was so hard to do that , especially when she began looking at the sketches she had made at Kenilworth . |
| 25 | He dropped my wrists and began picking at the bread , rolling bits of it into little grey balls . |
| 26 | When the power rear doors opened , the men moved out to the left and right of their vehicles , into their battle positions , and began to shoot at the enemy . |
| 27 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 28 | He was a tall , handsome man in his late thirties with short black hair , which was already beginning to grey at the temples , and a neatly trimmed black moustache . |
| 29 | And instead of seeing it as something God had ordained , we began to look at the exploitation of the poor by the rich in a political way , but using Christian concepts . |
| 30 | 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 . |