Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] at [art] beginning " in BNC.
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| 1 | That of course is exactly what Akhenaten tried to do at the beginning another example the return of the repressed its original religious intolerance . |
| 2 | We hope very much it will be useful , but as I tried to stress at the beginning , we very much see the problems of developing countries , which we in the Institute are working on , as part of the problems of what 's going wrong in the world at the moment , in which we in Britain very much have a stake too . |
| 3 | The exceptional moment when the spirit of Brahms materialised came at the beginning of the andante where Pauline Dowse 's cello solo evoked the inner stillness of the composer — all moonlight , warmth and swaying tree tops . |
| 4 | If he 'd explained at the beginning — and it did n't cancel out the fact that he 'd lied to her , did it ? |
| 5 | If she 'd confessed at the beginning it would n't have been so bad , but how could she tell them now ? |
| 6 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 7 | If they 'd settled at the beginning we would n't have had to go through this battle . |
| 8 | In the ACCs , the money supply began to accelerate at the beginning of 1970 . |
| 9 | But , you know , if , if , if I 'd have put , when we , when we started to talk at the beginning of this term we had at the beginning a general discussion about what are we gon na put in land reform , if I 'd have come along to s to you and I 'd said well I think we should do this |
| 10 | I think you just got thrown at the beginning and I think he you off and |
| 11 | There Peter I had developed at the beginning of the century a system by which a specified number of peasant households had to provide , in periodic levies , a recruit to serve for life . |
| 12 | The sales boom that Modigliani had enjoyed at the beginning of the year faded . |
| 13 | The first indication of the direction his mind ( or what passed for it ) was moving had come at the beginning of the trial when he called in two other judges to help determine whether the free pardon that Meehan had been granted quashed his conviction . |
| 14 | She said she was a widow , her husband , Malcolm , had died at the beginning of her pregnancy . |
| 15 | In France the system was much more centralized , and it might be that the stiffness of the Napoleonic system was one reason why France had lost to Germany the prominent place she had had at the beginning of the century when that system was set up . |
| 16 | When I asked advice , this man from the Florence Enterprise said begin at the beginning , the day the coach departed from Sweetmary with everybody aboard . |
| 17 | Still , the tracers had to start at the beginning , their call-finder mechanism racing frantically through the twenty thousand numbers on the exchange . |
| 18 | Announced to the Federal Assembly on Dec. 28 by Federal Premier Ante Markovic , this was the first devaluation since his government had introduced at the beginning of 1990 a convertible dinar pegged to the deutschmark [ see p. 37194 ] . |
| 19 | This departure from the T'ang 's normal practices was remarkable enough in itself , but what had happened at the beginning of the meal had surprised even his father . |
| 20 | Dismissed in the last months of his life as a spent force who would not match the powerful energy invested in the compositions which he had created at the beginning of his nine-year career , Basquiat briefly recaptured , by the unhappy circumstances of his death , an image of glamour and a wave of speculation which pushed the prices of virtually unsaleable pictures to $500,000 . |
| 21 | The crisis of modernism had arisen at the beginning of the century as a consequence of the profound , perhaps too rapid , infiltration of Catholic institutions and consciousness by the scholarly methods and intellectual attitudes and presuppositions which had developed earlier in predominantly Protestant and liberal milieus . |
| 22 | It was the end to a protracted period of trauma and uncertainty for the management and employees of the company , which had begun at the beginning of the year when the rumours that Gardner Merchant was for sale had begun to circulate . |
| 23 | In essence it was a development of policies which Lloyd George had advocated at the beginning of his political career . |
| 24 | The creative ferment set going at the beginning of the decade had petered out , as directors like Reisz and Richardson lost their sense of direction . |
| 25 | I wanted to start at the beginning . |