Example sentences of "[pers pn] began [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two brown pelicans flapped past as I began shaping the broken ends of Masquerade 's shattered planking . |
| 2 | She began bundling the huge tablecloth back on to the market stall . |
| 3 | joined me and we began discussing the forthcoming birth and what it would be like to have two children . |
| 4 | In 1979 we began pioneering the direct mail concept at constituency level with my wife Marlies at first typing and then working the word processor and computer . |
| 5 | We began producing the big catalogues to go with the shows . |
| 6 | When he was nineteen , Reza Shah decided that the Crown Princes marriage was due and so he began trawling the Middle East for the most suitable wife — from a dynastic point of view . |
| 7 | At the same time he began writing the book-length account of his theory that was published as On the Origin of Species at the end of 1859 . |
| 8 | And to aid this he began numbering the main verbs . |
| 9 | I asked as he began fixing the rear safety straps so that she would n't roll off the seat if he had to brake suddenly . |
| 10 | In fact the health visitor diagnosed a problem with speech at his screening at age 3 , and he began attending the local health clinic for speech therapy . |
| 11 | By the late 1660s it is almost certain that , as Thomas Shadwell [ q.v. ] suggests in The Medal of John Bayes ( 1682 ) , he began employing the young Dryden to write prefaces , commencing a relationship that developed through the 1660s and 1670s when Herringman bought up the copyrights to most of Dryden 's work . |