Example sentences of "began [v-ing] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following this unhappy enterprise , Douglas began producing the biggest picture of his career , Spartacus , which Anthony Mann was set to direct . |
| 2 | We began producing the big catalogues to go with the shows . |
| 3 | Two brown pelicans flapped past as I began shaping the broken ends of Masquerade 's shattered planking . |
| 4 | In 1903 a German syndicate began building the present sanatorium and the Hospital of Marmeleiros . |
| 5 | Juron held his knife to the dead man 's brow and began sawing the monomolecular edge through bone . |
| 6 | At seven-thirty next morning , I put on my running shoes and green army jeans and began jogging the eighteen miles to Reggane . |
| 7 | When he was nineteen , Reza Shah decided that the Crown Princes marriage was due and so he began trawling the Middle East for the most suitable wife — from a dynastic point of view . |
| 8 | He also began using the fashionable technique of mixing wax resists with gouache and watercolour , a technique which Minton once described as ‘ a matter of the successful steering of accident ’ . |
| 9 | By the late 1660s it is almost certain that , as Thomas Shadwell [ q.v. ] suggests in The Medal of John Bayes ( 1682 ) , he began employing the young Dryden to write prefaces , commencing a relationship that developed through the 1660s and 1670s when Herringman bought up the copyrights to most of Dryden 's work . |
| 10 | And to aid this he began numbering the main verbs . |
| 11 | Quickly , he ducked through the unadorned side door of the building and began climbing the four flights of rickety wooden stairs . |
| 12 | The two island republics cast their lot with him after Japan began eyeing the Western Pacific as a potential dumping ground . |
| 13 | The prosecution also alleged that in the early hours of Nov. 24 , 1986 , when investigators began searching the National Security Council offices for documents relating to the affair , Poindexter had erased more than 5,000 files from the memory of his computer . |
| 14 | Maria Carlita Rex Doran began developing the new fuel in 1980 following a government plea to scientists to devise new indigenous power sources to meet the country 's severe energy shortage . |
| 15 | At the same time he began writing the book-length account of his theory that was published as On the Origin of Species at the end of 1859 . |
| 16 | All four brothers were in a band together and began writing the musical while on the road in Africa and Europe . |
| 17 | Many of the teachers began acting the same way , believing the Headmaster might punish them too if they did n't follow his example . |
| 18 | I asked as he began fixing the rear safety straps so that she would n't roll off the seat if he had to brake suddenly . |
| 19 | She later began paying the married woman 's rate . |
| 20 | Both boys began stuffing the empty cases down their shirts . |
| 21 | With more violent shakes of the head , Eleanor began demolishing the second tissue . |
| 22 | He returned carrying some tepid water and cleaning material , and gently began wiping the sore cut . |
| 23 | In fact the health visitor diagnosed a problem with speech at his screening at age 3 , and he began attending the local health clinic for speech therapy . |
| 24 | Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports . |
| 25 | In 1979 we began pioneering the direct mail concept at constituency level with my wife Marlies at first typing and then working the word processor and computer . |
| 26 | Complete silence was expected nightly while he took stock of the world : ‘ after supper , the paper was unfolded and the old man began reading the four pages ; woe betide if any noise or talking was indulged in by the family until the task was completed . ’ |
| 27 | She unfolded Marek 's exercise book and began reading the spidery writing where she had been forced to stop . |
| 28 | In perfect unison , based on long marital experience and an infinitesimal twitch of the eyebrows , Desmond and Margaret Seymour-Strachey rose from their chairs and began making the ritual noises . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She gave a little cackle and then bent down and began locking the french windows . |