Example sentences of "then began [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within two weeks the skin disease had cleared and Mr O'Reilly then began to retail the cream when word of its powers spread . |
| 2 | Paula began as they entered the living room and she placed the tray on the table , then began to fill the cups . |
| 3 | In his study Sir Richard asked all 34,000 doctors in Britain what they smoked and then began to monitor the causes of death of those doctors . |
| 4 | Sophie passed her hand over her forehead , then began to unfasten the drip . |
| 5 | At once , she picked up the gold key from the table , unlocked the little door into the garden , and then began to eat a piece of mushroom . |
| 6 | Eventually through reasonably correct bid evaluation , we began to learn how to cost out inferior bids , when we had a very very low bid in we could see that certain things had been skimped , certain things might even have been missed out completely , and we then began to cost the effect of that on the organization . |
| 7 | He then began to stab the drawing , uttering magical incantations . |
| 8 | They then began to play a game which involved tearing pieces off the aircraft and hurtling them at each other . |
| 9 | For six months he was a sub-editor , but then began to write a column for the paper called ‘ By the Way ’ . |
| 10 | Subconsciously I remembered then began to hum the Robinson Crusoe theme music . |
| 11 | Slowly , he shook his head once or twice , and then began to make the descent . |
| 12 | To begin with I made a rough drawing and then began to place the colours using the nearest equivalent values from a set of 36 Polychromos Pastels : blue violet , No. 137 , lemon , No. 107 and night green , No. 155 , for the mass colouring of the plant ; an African violet , rose carmine , No. 124 , light blue , No. 147 , and blue violet , No. 137 again for the silk scarf ; orange yellow , No. 109 and orange light , No. 113 for the vase and so on , until I had an abstract pattern of colour distilled from the still life subject . |
| 13 | Rab let him out , into the morning air , almost dawn , then began to wreck the kitchen . |
| 14 | Instead he examined the book containing future reservations , then began to study a pile of accounts . |
| 15 | He then began to itemise the problems and questions which confronted him . |
| 16 | In a small study off the hall , another policeman put the parcel through an X-ray machine and then began to cut the string . |
| 17 | She smiled , and then began to climb the stairs to the ground level and the shapechanger . |