Example sentences of "began [v-ing] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie now found himself in front and began firing at the Germans as their heads popped up from behind the dug-outs . |
| 2 | For the sake of appearances , he picked up another brush and began swatting at the sleeves and lapels of his suit . |
| 3 | Charged with the setting up of a central UK single professional register of nurses , midwives and health visitors , and mindful of its responsibilities for enhancing professional standards , the UKCC first began looking at the issue of mandatory refreshment for nurses and health visitors while still a shadow body in 1982 . |
| 4 | Only it was so hard to do that , especially when she began looking at the sketches she had made at Kenilworth . |
| 5 | He dropped my wrists and began picking at the bread , rolling bits of it into little grey balls . |
| 6 | Without a word , Ted climbed out of the car and began pulling at the hedgerow . |
| 7 | The singers ' chant frayed as they began pointing at the Spiderglass Europa logo , and in amongst the strangeness of a foreign tongue Jezrael heard the triumphant old woman say , ‘ Spiderglass ’ and ‘ Steel City ’ . |
| 8 | He began running at the end of 91/92 season to get fit for the next season and things snowballed from there . |
| 9 | Lou began fulminating at the injustice of it all . |
| 10 | But the second time round he became restless and began biting at the rope and making playful snaps at Angela 's heels , then at her basket . |
| 11 | He began hacking at the ice on the gauges and the air intakes . |
| 12 | At once he ran to the house and began scratching at the door . |
| 13 | He began paddling at the age of 10 , got his first boat 3 years later , spent a week with PGL and followed it up the next year with a course at Raven 's Ait . |
| 14 | That though , is recent history for Britain 's oldest active cricketer , he began playing at the age of 8 in 1910 . |
| 15 | The rapid acceleration of house prices during the late 1980s ( which received added impetus from the rush by house buyers to beat the ending of multiple mortgage tax relief in August 1988 ) meant that highly geared first-time buyers were especially vulnerable when interest rates began rising during 1988 , and their exposure increased when house prices began falling at the end of 1989 . |
| 16 | The servants brought platters of over-cooked , rather rancid meat , garnished with herbs , and once they withdrew and the wine circulated , Melford began talking at the top of his voice about sending boys to do men 's work . |
| 17 | Messiaen began composing at the age of seven , entering the Paris Conservatoire four years later where he was to remain for the next 11 years , winning four premiers prix including that for composition in 1930 . |
| 18 | One began recognising at the outset , of course , that there was an important relationship to government in that government was the main customer , the main purchaser of the product . |
| 19 | Sales of co-ordinate measuring machines and laser calibration products increased , and demand for the group 's new products , the Cyclone scanning machine and the Raman microscope , which began shipping at the end of June , were promising . |
| 20 | But the H S E says the cluster of leukaemia cases is confined mainly to the nearby village of Seascale and to children whose fathers began working at the plant before nineteen sixty five . |
| 21 | The first Russian to mount the wall fell at once to a bullet from one of Thiercelin 's men , but now a slavonic deluge swamped the wall in a wave of green and grey , bayonets fixed , overran the Frenchmen on the terrace and began smashing at the door . |