Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] began [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only began to smell a rat when he could n't come up with the documents he claimed to have . |
| 2 | I thus began to call the Indian movement ‘ Satyagraha ’ , that is to say , the Force which is born of Truth and Love or Non-violence … ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I had developed a penchant for Southern Comfort over the years and when not running I soon began to surpass the 20 units of alcohol per week ‘ allowed ’ by the experts if you do n't wish to become addicted . |
| 4 | Looked at like that , I gradually began to feel a little more able to let go of my unrealistic expectations of my mother and to love her as she is . |
| 5 | I felt very down , but once he began to need my milk it seemed worthwhile and I gradually began to produce a little more at each pumping . |
| 6 | I quickly began running every day and naturally wanted to run further . |
| 7 | And it was in this way that I clearly began to hear the call of God . |
| 8 | I recently began to stock a 4ft 6″ tank , commencing with a 5–1/2″ Plec , a 3″ Weather Loach and a 3″ Gold Severum , followed by two small Corydoras and a handsome 2–1/2″ Red Oscar . |
| 9 | She later began paying the married woman 's rate . |
| 10 | The sweet scent of her native land came back to her , but she also began to remember the terror she had felt when she was wrenched from her home and transported to a place beside the sea . |
| 11 | She now began to have the strange experience of finding herself taking part in the life of the Holy Family . |
| 12 | She even began to resent the attention her baby boy received from others , as if he had displaced her . |
| 13 | Every nerve filled with tingling life , she let him teach her new sensations , new feelings , totally passive under his expert touch , until she too began to know the need to feel his skin under her fingers . |
| 14 | Later that year Davies was signed by West Bromwich Albion , but after two seasons at The Hawthorns , he returned to the Palace and continued to play consistently well for us as we really began to make an impact on the Southern League . |
| 15 | Eventually through reasonably correct bid evaluation , we began to learn how to cost out inferior bids , when we had a very very low bid in we could see that certain things had been skimped , certain things might even have been missed out completely , and we then began to cost the effect of that on the organization . |
| 16 | While negotiations for the lease of the building went on , members of the Society engaged on various fundraising schemes , and they slowly began to clear the shed , restore services , and start to lay track . |
| 17 | That did nothing for County 's confidence , but they gradually began to exert a control that promised them at least a draw until Sansom 's unlucky deflection . |
| 18 | In challenging the structural and cultural marginalization of Britain 's black minority communities , they also began to shift the terms around which British national identities had sedimented over the years of colonial domination and imperial grandeur and before . |
| 19 | But they were not content merely to question the economic rule of the landowners , they also began to question the social and political structure of power in feudal societies . |
| 20 | Not only did they disclaim any career but motherhood , they even began to question the need for the higher education itself . |
| 21 | They then began to play a game which involved tearing pieces off the aircraft and hurtling them at each other . |
| 22 | With his gaze locked on hers , he slowly began to undo the buttons of his shirt . |
| 23 | Then he slowly began to open the staircase door . |
| 24 | It suddenly began to close the distance between them and Chrissie felt her heart beat increasing to an almost violent rate . |
| 25 | By 1838 it was said of him that he ‘ ranks so deservedly high in his profession ’ , and he gradually began to obtain an increasing number of English commissions , so that by 1844 he moved back to London leaving his partner David Bryce in charge of his Edinburgh office . |
| 26 | Besides , he always began creating a character from the voice . |
| 27 | He quickly began to play the Midland circuit again . |
| 28 | He also began using the fashionable technique of mixing wax resists with gouache and watercolour , a technique which Minton once described as ‘ a matter of the successful steering of accident ’ . |
| 29 | With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket . |
| 30 | The Industrial Revolution had , of course , begun some twenty years before Jane Austen 's birth , at a time when the Rule of Taste had established an unquestioned supremacy ; but it was in the twenty years following her death in 1817 that it really began to change the face of England . |