Example sentences of "and began [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She waved to Shelley , and began to sing a song made famous by Miguelito , giving her a private lift of the eyebrows . |
| 2 | They descended a flight of steps , entered a classroom block by a side-door and began to thread a route through corridors and passages busy with bustling knots of purple-blazered schoolboys . |
| 3 | Bernice perched on the edge of the shift supervisor 's desk , watching as the Doctor strode quickly to the neural net cabinets and began to access a series of subsystems . |
| 4 | Then the Mayor of Fulham thought people should be cheered up , and began to plan a party . |
| 5 | I went to my room and began reading a book . |
| 6 | He unrolled the parchment , scrubbed it with the pumice-stone and gently blew the fragments away , dipped his quill into the unclasped inkhorn and began to draft a letter to Burnell . |
| 7 | In dry denims with a heavy black jersey over her scarlet wool shirt , she looked through the refrigerator and cupboards and began to concoct a dinner likely to appeal to a newly recovered — and fractious — invalid . |
| 8 | Within twenty minutes a car drove up to the family majlis and began to unload a meal for us all . |
| 9 | Liam sprang on to a table , raised a glass and began to declaim a speech . |
| 10 | Sara went back to the drawing-room and began laying a table for four at one end of the room . |
| 11 | At the end of the lesson the excitable Dutchman got hold of a piece of chalk and began to draw a cliff on the board . |
| 12 | Conway took out a pencil and a piece of paper , and began to draw a map . |
| 13 | He picked up a corkscrew and began to open a bottle of wine . |
| 14 | The girl knelt down and began to play a game of marbles with the Doctor . |
| 15 | As Russia advanced westward and began to play a role alongside the major European powers in the determination of the affairs of the continent , the Slavs of the Balkans turned to St Petersburg for diplomatic and military support , which was usually forthcoming . |
| 16 | Dangerfield selected the thinnest girl and began dancing a waltz to the hymn-tune . |
| 17 | Moodily Benny tore the corner off the packet and began to eat a sweet . |
| 18 | Jannie sat down at one corner of the great kitchen table and began to write a shopping list . |
| 19 | The evening meal had been re-scheduled for 8.30 p.m. ; and with time to spare , after throwing his own large hold-all on to the counterpane of his single bed , Ashenden joined a few of the other tourists in the Residents ' Lounge , where he took some sheets of the hotel 's own note-paper , and began to write a letter . |
| 20 | She wandered into the kitchen and began assembling a shopping list . |
| 21 | Maggie took up the cloth and began to wipe a section of the counter . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's all , ’ he said , and began to strike a match . |
| 23 | Cramer ran out to his car , took the handset from the dashboard and began to make a series of frantic calls as the car rolled . |
| 24 | She drew a notebook out of her bag , and began to make a list . |
| 25 | She ran to it , scooped up handfuls of loose earth and began to make a barrier of it between the edge of the fire and the hayfield . |
| 26 | Feeling out of place , Cameron laid his rope on the ground , bundled a mass of hay onto it , and began to make a slip-knot round it . |
| 27 | The children liked the wooden soldiers and began to tell a story about them . |
| 28 | One leader took between fifteen and twenty people , hired a hall , broke the link with the Cobham Fellowship and began to establish a church which has grown to some sixty members . |
| 29 | The barman laughed and began to pull a couple of pints . |
| 30 | So when the class reassembled , Matilda went to her desk and began to study a text-book on geometry which Miss Honey had given her . |