Example sentences of "began [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet on returning to the stage for the first encore , after the first set which had lasted only 35 minutes , they all actually began to sound like a live band and you momentarily forgot about the keyboard player triggering off the backing vocals , and the percussionists aided by drum sequencers . |
| 2 | Thus , for instance , Italy began building in a Romanesque style earlier than most nations — for its emergence from Roman work was a natural corollary — continued it later , produced little Gothic work and then burst forth into the Renaissance a century and more before the rest of Europe . |
| 3 | Here they also found the values of the market place , which stressed personal independence and self-gratification , and began to search for a sexual fulfilment which , Shorter . |
| 4 | Alerted by her dulcet tones , a crowd began to gather outside a downtown boutique and May generously offered a few fashion tips to the throng . |
| 5 | Instead , she began to light like a wild cat . |
| 6 | ‘ What am I ? ’ she asked looking at Tumbleweed , and then began to recite in a sing-song voice , ‘ with a stick in me hand and a stone in me throat , I walk through the land in me shiny , red coat . ’ |
| 7 | I was involved in opposing the Vietnam War , began to write for a left newspaper , Black Dwarf and became part of the beginnings of the women 's liberation movement . |
| 8 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 9 | Sit , they said , but he would n't This week John Major began to appear on a different kind of box . |
| 10 | Only as the cloverleaf began to appear as a grey shape in the otherwise black wall did I at last fall into a dream-wracked sleep . |
| 11 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought it was time I began looking like a human being , ’ she snapped . |
| 13 | So Clemente and his FA were taken aback when England returned from the Swedish disaster and began pushing for an away fixture at anywhere in Spain that could be called ‘ cool ’ . |
| 14 | She began to chant in a low , eerie voice , words in a language foreign to Lucien . |
| 15 | But he began to chant in a sombre , sing-song voice . |
| 16 | " There was some confusion at this stage because the target began to behave in an odd way , we knew she was supposed to go up the River Stour to off load , but finally I made the decision to go alongside her at sea . |
| 17 | They began to engage in a ritual practice of the Caucasian gypsies . |
| 18 | But his interest grew as he worked , and he began to aim at a comprehensive expository commentary on Epicurus . |
| 19 | Paul began training as a local preacher and conducted services under supervision , but never completed the tough programme . |
| 20 | The rain that night was unusually heavy , and water began to pour from a broken pipe on the church roof straight on to Fanny 's grave . |
| 21 | Three days later , as the sun began to set on a cloudless horizon , we reached the ‘ comforts ’ of the highest permanent army outpost . |
| 22 | In the same breath as admitting that Lightning , the high-end , super-pipelined Sparc chip that it was developing in conjunction with LSI Logic Corp and Hyundai Electronics , was n't going to strike after all , Metaflow Technology also began to talk about a next-generation effort in design that would follow ( UX No 273 ) . |
| 23 | Soon after we got into the coach , he began to talk in a strange rambling manner . |
| 24 | Myles began to talk in a slow calm voice . |
| 25 | They began selling at an early age , certainly before 10 years of age . |
| 26 | Oxford 's bowling was never threatening and looked rather ordinary when Glendenen and Parker began to hurry after a quiet first half-hour . |
| 27 | We all felt happy about this and began to walk towards a distant wood , but as we approached it we saw two figures emerging : the priest we had come to see arm in arm with an attractive girl . |
| 28 | Spa towns led by Bath , ports headed by Bristol and Liverpool and including the new venture at Whitehaven , and manufacturing centres like Birmingham , Leeds , Manchester and Sheffield began to grow at a significant rate . |
| 29 | His pacifism was couched in the violent language of subversion and revolution , and long before 1917 he began to look for a distinctive Scottish way out of the war . |
| 30 | But it was when he began finding the 26 mile 385 yard distance — which he can complete in two hours and 57 minutes — ‘ about right for starters ’ , that he began to look for a new challenge . |