Example sentences of "i began [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The days grew warm and I began to hop around the cage and try to fly again . |
| 2 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 3 | Curiously , I have become even more strongly persuaded of that since I began dabbling in the making of political television programmes . |
| 4 | ‘ For the first time I began to wonder about the camp and the people I should find inside it . |
| 5 | Do you know , that 's the first time I began to wonder about the name Raphael . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought it was time I began looking like a human being , ’ she snapped . |
| 7 | Some of the brothers were busy in the scriptorium but I was greeted courteously and no one objected when I began to leaf through the manuscript Southgate had left upon the table . |
| 8 | I began to talk with the priest . |
| 9 | Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time . |
| 10 | And as the embarrassing minutes ticked away I began to realize for the first time the enormity of the problem which confronted Mrs Rumney . |
| 11 | Anyway , so I began sorting through the trunk . |
| 12 | After three hours of continuous nibbling it seemed , I will confess , rather on the acid and insubstantial side , and I began to yearn for a bowl of pasta . |
| 13 | I began to grapple with the man who was holding me . |
| 14 | He glared at me , quite beside himself with rage , and the whole scene seemed so absurd and nothing to do with anything that had really happened , that I began to laugh in a wild , helpless way , snorting through my nose . |
| 15 | Later , after I had qualified as a teacher and got married , I began to study at the university , teaching at a school during the day . |
| 16 | A little calmer , I began to write on the ground with the stick , ‘ Howard is a nut ’ , but was distracted by a tiny blue van in the south and was determined not to let it go by . |
| 17 | As she and one other laid their hands on me , I leant on their faith , and I began to speak in a new language words of praise to God . |
| 18 | Slowly , even reluctantly I began to integrate with the idea of Bristol . |
| 19 | McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’ |
| 20 | I began to work on the dog with all I had . |
| 21 | I began walking along the track leading behind the beach towards the village , which was marked by the red tin roof of a tiny church showing above the casuarinas and palm trees . |
| 22 | I could n't make out what was going on so I began walking towards the image , binoculars pressed to my eyes . |
| 23 | Then I began to run into the guards , and every guard I saw , I did n't say anything , I just showed them the piece of paper which had written on it Hotel Intourist in Russian , and the phrase book . |
| 24 | These beliefs were reinforced when , as a practising hypnotherapist , I began working in the field of regression therapy in the early 1980s . |
| 25 | I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch . |
| 26 | Dawn broke as the field passed through a shuttered Bridgetown , and I began to pass through the field . |
| 27 | I began to feel under the weather on Thursday morning after leaving Haslemere . |
| 28 | Ten years ago when I began researching into the role of women in trade unions , it would have been quite surprising to find such a subject included in a sociological textbook . |
| 29 | I began to prepare in a small way to enjoy the Christmas in Bedford . |
| 30 | It was only when I bought a collection of 12 Nalevich drawings and documents that I began to think about a constructivist show . |