Example sentences of "and began [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So saying , he slotted a video into the telly and began to watch old films of air fights in the Great War . |
| 2 | The notion took hold in Vicente at an early age and got serious reinforcement when he arrived in America from his native Spain ( by way of Paris ) and began to form lasting relationships with many other , then unknown , artists of the New York avant-garde . |
| 3 | Russia wished to use the Teleuts as a buffer against the Dzhungars , but in the end they were overwhelmed by a superior power and began raiding Russian lands again around 1700 at the behest of their new masters , as did the Kazakhs further west . |
| 4 | Ashamed of having frightened me , he looked at me sweetly and began to sing Italian songs to make me forget the incident ’ . |
| 5 | Fired up by that ambition he turned the Supper on end , and began to squeeze burnt umber directly on to the canvas , spreading it with a palette knife until the scene beneath was completely obscured . |
| 6 | He buried himself in books on comparative religion , and began publishing scholarly tracts and books about the goddess . |
| 7 | As the situation worsened more border police entered the area and began firing live ammunition into the crowd . |
| 8 | The fear was abating , the trembling beginning to stop , a contraction chuckled in a place outside my body and began to pour molten lead uphill . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , within the executive , the Treasury in 1961 accepted the Plowden Committee 's proposals and began to plan public expenditure on the framework of a five-year rolling programme . |
| 10 | In 1844 he became a regional committee member of the newly formed British Archaeological Association and began to conduct larger excavations , communicating his discoveries through the Association 's Journal . |
| 11 | In the early afternoon the gate finally opened , and the crowd arose as one and began loading each other with boxes and sacks . |
| 12 | As the economic recession continued to worsen , however , the government , in 1976 , reduced very substantially its regional programmes and began to give more emphasis to encouraging economic growth in the prosperous regions . |
| 13 | She picked up a piece of paper and began drawing little cameo pictures of the bowl of fruit on the sideboard , of the flowers in the garden , bending under the wind . |
| 14 | Thyroxine replacement treatment was begun with some improvement but by May the goitre had increased in size and began to cause local pressure effects . |
| 15 | Otley put his arm round my shoulders as we made our way to Claro and began to whisper sweet nothings . |
| 16 | In Bosnia , the Yugoslav army yesterday seized control of the town of Visegrad and began enforcing military rule after stamping out pockets of resistance by Muslims , Belgrade radio said . |
| 17 | Taking this as my cue , I produced my own drawing pad and began to draw google-eyed rabbits and donkeys , with great speed . |
| 18 | During the 1970s , many fishermen were forced from the anchoveta fishery and the associated use of purse-seine vessels , and began using smaller boats , setting gill-nets to catch coastal fish species . |
| 19 | FOUR yachtsmen competing in an annual midnight race had a lucky escape yesterday when their vessel flooded and began to sink three miles from the Isle of Man . |
| 20 | FOUR yachtsmen competing in an annual night race cheated death yesterday after their vessel was flooded and began to sink three miles off the Isle of Man . |
| 21 | On hearing this , the brothers ran the two thousand meters back to the start of their rows and began visiting each tree in turn again to empty the cups into their carrying cans . |
| 22 | ‘ I assume that 's a yes , ’ she commented , and began to pile used plates and napkins into the picnic basket , saying , ‘ Come on , then . |
| 23 | In 1990 , it established its own Japanese office in Tokyo and began offering technical support on a local basis . |
| 24 | Will sat up and began to eat another apple . |
| 25 | After a few days I was allowed downstairs and began to eat proper meals again , and two weeks later I started back at school . |
| 26 | He joined the Kennedy Administration direct from the board of the Ford Motor Company and began sweeping away waste wherever he could find it . |
| 27 | The F2B creaked through a 180-degree turn and began photographing another strip . |
| 28 | At this stage the six groups started to think of themselves as genuine groups for the project and began to regard each other as equal participants . |
| 29 | That night in my areesh , wrapped warmly in my blankets , the wind rose again and began to make odd wind sounds as it pushed through the fencing . |
| 30 | The skimmed milk was fed to pigs but the Rowlands eventually decided it could be used more profitably and began to make low-fat yogurt and cottage cheese . |