Example sentences of "[pers pn] began in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house move necessitated my moving school , to Brackenbury in Hammersmith where I began in the third year . |
| 2 | The first efforts to drain them began in the 1880s , but the main push came after a hurricane in 1947 drove floodwaters over Lake Okeechobee 's southern edge , drowning more than 2,000 people . |
| 3 | She 'd already seen Il-Maltija , a country dance which Roman had told her began in the royal courts of the eighteenth century . |
| 4 | It began in the early fifties when American health products company Johnson & Johnson , best known for its baby powder , wanted to develop a new type of surgical suture based on collagen the same sort of stuff that ageing film stars injected to prevent wrinkles . |
| 5 | For The Northern Echo it began in the early 1960s when editor Harold Evans introduced a cuttings library which saw 200 stories a day being cut , pasted and stored under appropriate headings . |
| 6 | It began in the 1920s when Glen Sample , an American advertising agent , had the idea of adapting a newspaper serial for the radio , a medium already dominated by commercial interests . |
| 7 | ‘ Every generation of the Gontaut-Biron family added something to it since it began in the twelfth century . |
| 8 | Brainstorming on creative tasks has been a major activity in the advertising business where it began in the 1930s . |
| 9 | He began in the central Lowlands by surveying the lines for a railway from Edinburgh to Glasgow ( 1837 ) , and for the Scottish Central Railway ( 1844 ) . |
| 10 | Almost immediately after completing the poem , he began in the early months of 1941 to work on the fourth in the sequence ; it was entitled " Little Gidding " . |
| 11 | He began in the then Sales Department and has retained a special interest in the public house operations side of the business . |