Example sentences of "she begin [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She began to cook the meal , briefly wondering how her own household was coping without her . |
| 2 | Grainne listened , absorbed and serious , and in her mind she began to see the old Ireland , the Ireland of the lost enchantments , very clearly . |
| 3 | Now , as she cautiously peered behind , she began to see the shadows in the trees , the gaunt and sinewy shapes of the mythagos which followed them , darting from shadow place to shadow place . |
| 4 | Then , slowly and patiently , she began to detach the strands of the lamb 's coat from the barbs . |
| 5 | She began to sing the famous love song . |
| 6 | Now she began to tackle the section called ‘ Krafft-Ebing & Sophie Arandt ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ You want to tuck them in well , ’ said Miss Maynard , as Harry immediately stopped crying and she began to demonstrate the correct way of settling him into his cot . |
| 8 | She began to flick the offending wisps from Alain 's clothes . |
| 9 | Later she began to weave the dances of her young pupils into ballet form and gradually accustomed the audiences in South Africa first to accept , and then to appreciate , the combination of music and dance in its more sophisticated form . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She began to untie the string around it . |
| 14 | The little orchestra was playing a minuet when she began to descend the sumptuously draped stairs . |
| 15 | Next instant , the front door opened , and as she began to descend the stairs a most unwelcome voice smote her ears . |
| 16 | Her dress fastened up the front and she began to undo the buttons . |
| 17 | She began to undo the third shirt . |
| 18 | She began to disconnect the cannula rather fussily and put a band-aid on Belinda 's slightly bruised arm as Tom stepped back . |
| 19 | She began to push the door to . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She began to watch the numbers , too . |
| 22 | He could tell by the quality of patience in her sigh as she began to lick the sweat from his shoulder-blades . |
| 23 | She began to circle the tower again . |
| 24 | She began to tidy the room . |
| 25 | ’ She began to draw the other curtains back . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought I 'd left that behind , ’ she murmured to him as she began to mount the stairs . |
| 27 | She began to turn the pictures round and flap at the mantelpiece with a duster . |
| 28 | She began to visit the families of sentenced persons in order to compile detailed dossiers on the more extreme sentence anomalies . |
| 29 | She began to pour the tea and when she had finally finished and sat down felt as if she had run the London Marathon . |
| 30 | She began to inspect the children 's handiwork . |