Example sentences of "she begin [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She began to cook the meal , briefly wondering how her own household was coping without her . |
| 2 | Now she began to tackle the section called ‘ Krafft-Ebing & Sophie Arandt ’ . |
| 3 | The emperor gave Venice exceptional mercantile privileges , and she began to form the trading posts and colonies — quite in the manner of ancient Athens — which may still be discerned , with Genoese and Turkish towns adjacent , along the Bosphorus . |
| 4 | She could n't actually now pinpoint the time when she began to dislike the room , the furniture , the colour of the carpet , the curtains … the ever-changing curtains . |
| 5 | Now she began to treat the shop more as a business than a hobby , and expanded its services by offering home collection to rich women who would not be seen dead in a secondhand shop . |
| 6 | She began to untie the string around it . |
| 7 | She began to disconnect the cannula rather fussily and put a band-aid on Belinda 's slightly bruised arm as Tom stepped back . |
| 8 | She began to push the door to . |
| 9 | It was n't until she had successfully launched The Body Shop on to the Unlisted Securities Market that she began to examine the direction in which the business was going and to start articulating its mission in a definitive way . |
| 10 | He could tell by the quality of patience in her sigh as she began to lick the sweat from his shoulder-blades . |
| 11 | She began to circle the tower again . |
| 12 | She began to tidy the room . |
| 13 | She began to pour the tea and when she had finally finished and sat down felt as if she had run the London Marathon . |
| 14 | She began to unfasten the baby 's harness , lifting her out of her chair . |
| 15 | And gradually , over a period of about nine months , she began to lose the use of her eyes . |
| 16 | As she waited , she began to study the anchor cables around her . |
| 17 | ‘ Look , Jamie , see this ! ’ she said , and she began to wind the wool so fast that it tangled up in a big knot and the ball bounced right out of her hand and rolled underneath Grandma 's chair . |
| 18 | Jackson watched as she began to believe the lie . |
| 19 | She began to consider the fact that she was over twenty-one and felt anxious that she would never get a home of her own . |
| 20 | She began to landscape the fantasy garden in her mind and had soon forgotten about the slight ache in her hips that came from having her legs curled to one side , and the uncomfortable weave of the wickerwork pressing into the soft skin on the underside of her forearms . |
| 21 | She began to climb the staircase , but I stopped her , saying : ‘ Miss Kenton , please do n't think me unduly improper in not ascending to see my father in his deceased condition just at this moment . |
| 22 | She began to unplait the end of it , moving her own chair closer . |
| 23 | She began to find the woman in red , ‘ irritating . |
| 24 | She began to find the woman in red , ‘ irritating . |
| 25 | She was working on the two o'clock to ten o'clock shift at the factory and on the Tuesday morning was up early to do some ironing , then she began to prepare the midday meal for herself and her mother and father , and Aunt Carrie who was visiting them . |
| 26 | She began to wash the lettuce , while Bob made the dressing , hunting luxuriously through her spice cupboard for the oil and vinegar . |
| 27 | David Wright , prosecuting for Liverpool environmental health department , said : ‘ She began to eat the roll and felt what she thought to be a chunky piece of lettuce . |
| 28 | After a while she began to get the message , but it required a lot of patience . |
| 29 | Because his refusal to be sincere about his feelings toward her leads her further away from her own values , she begins to resent the way in which he constantly gives her the linguistic slip : ‘ Concepts which still meant much to her , by which she had once lived , were swerved aside with a smart epigram , a pun , a quotation , a dirty story ’ ( 170 ) . |
| 30 | As the weeks go by she begins to receive visitors at the refuge and when she begins to feel the marriage is over , with the workers ' help she starts negotiating with the council and housing associations for a new flat , although she also feels the refuge is home , a safe space that is becoming more and more difficult to leave . |