Example sentences of "began [to-vb] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the princess 's soldiers began to batter at the doors of the wooden fortress with their axes . |
| 2 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 3 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 4 | The animal began to gnaw at the ropes binding her to the altar . |
| 5 | And when she thought it was about to finish , the whip began to flick at the pegs . |
| 6 | The squabbling became more bitter , and the adults began to snap at the children . |
| 7 | Carefully , almost lovingly , he pulled the instrument across his knees and began to pluck at the strings with a plectrum fashioned from tortoise-shell . |
| 8 | Recovering , Emmie seized the thin old hearthrug and began to beat at the flames . |