Example sentences of "i began [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be best procedure if I began to answer a series of questions in a room from which Clements was excluded . |
| 2 | I began to carry a gun and a knife with me everywhere I went . |
| 3 | Unknown to Dana , I began writing a series of free-verse poems about the pictures . |
| 4 | I began to see a pattern to these puzzling events , a distinct and disturbing trend . |
| 5 | ‘ I began to draw a man busy digging potatoes in a field again . |
| 6 | I began to relax a bit . |
| 7 | While I was at Cambridge , I began to follow a rule of life which I hoped would prepare me for the priesthood . |
| 8 | I felt as if someone had stuck a knife into me — I started to hate Africa then and I went on hating it — I began to hate a lot of things I had n't minded before , when I was happy . |
| 9 | We went into my room and sat down on the floor together , and dried each other 's tears ; then I began to laugh a bit , ruefully , because I suddenly imagined how we must look , a hulking great coloured man and a girl sitting snivelling in front of a gas-fire mopping up the tears with dozens of paper hankies . |
| 10 | I began to make a list . |
| 11 | I began to recognise a landscape . |
| 12 | Many years later when I first visited the States I began to understand a bit of how they felt , as I too was then in an alien land — and make no mistake , America is an alien land , for all that we share a language and many common roots . |
| 13 | Perhaps it was while watching the faces , that I began to get a mirror of my own doubts . |
| 14 | After about the fourth or fifth month into the course of treatments , I began to feel a lessening of the pain , but not once had she confided that anything was wrong . |
| 15 | I did n't really feel a thing until about 5.30 p.m. when I began to feel a sort of tightening of the stomach , not a pain . |
| 16 | As the campaign proceeded , I kept quiet as I began to have a vision of some grisly post-polling day ceremony in which I would be on a platform like a performance artist from the sixties , vomiting and gagging while attempting to ingest yet another page : ‘ You 're doing okay . |
| 17 | I began to have a series of nightmares where I experienced painful sensations up and down my spine , weird chanting and a feeling of terror . |