Example sentences of "began [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Butler could n't adapt to his new defensive role , and Chapman began to look around for a more solid defender , not necessarily a player with much technical skill , but one who could clear accurately under pressure , feeding the ball to an inside-forward . |
| 2 | Six miles away , at the mouth of the estuary , the four big transporters , converted specially for the task , lifted one by one from the pad and began to form up in a line across the river . |
| 3 | Well Charlton had to improve in the second half , and they did ; they got more men into mid-field , and United began to run out of a little bit of steam . |
| 4 | It was around 6pm , very dark ; suddenly the train began to slow down to a crawl , ‘ what now ? ’ thought the passengers . |
| 5 | It therefore came as a shock in early afternoon when reports began to filter through of a massive disaster that had overtaken the centre on the Pratzen Heights . |
| 6 | When the interior began to heat up as a result of radioactivity , volcanoes and fumaroles erupted , pumping out vast quantities of carbon dioxide . |
| 7 | At five to eight , the deadline , I decided to make a run for it , and was within sight of the doors when , without any warning at all , my stomach muscles suddenly began to roll up like a shop blind and I was violently and horribly sick . |
| 8 | From late 1922 , however , extreme anti-Marxism — now often without the express linkage to the Jews — began to take over as a dominant theme of his speeches . |