Example sentences of "[pron] began the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began the project with the orchestra several years before we made the recordings . |
| 2 | I began the standard evade and ignore manoeuvre I use to get by sidewalk solicitors , but I was almost stopped by the message on the sign facing the building : Do n't freeze nuclear weapons , destroy them with beam weapons . ’ |
| 3 | I began the basic structure of the rose leaves in the bottom left of the picture and then built up the shape with the larger open roses , tucking the asparagus fern and gypsophila behind them , and finally put the buds into position . |
| 4 | But when I joined the RSPB in 1964 as their Shetland representative , I began the process of getting to know the islands better , and this included making the first of many visits to Fair Isles . |
| 5 | Before I began the formal research I had been aware from the few parents of children with trisomy 21 I knew that there was more disquiet about their negotiations with professionals and the treatment of their children than had made its way into the academic and professional literature on parents and families . |
| 6 | " When I began the WNAS diet I was asked to cut out bread , biscuits and cakes as well as cutting down on dairy products and sugar , I found that I was sensitive to wheat . |
| 7 | " I was 11 and a half stone ( 160lb/73kg ) when I began the WNAS diet . |
| 8 | " I began the WNAS diet . |
| 9 | But to return to the question with which I began the discussion of LTP , is it really a model for long-term changes in the nervous system , or is it something more , a mechanism for memory itself ? |
| 10 | And when I had laid out the clothing , I began the even more important business of transferring my personal armament . |
| 11 | I began the day ‘ delving below the surface of visible reality to the world of molecules ’ , explaining how an understanding of molecular structure can be used to explain , among other things , why sugar tastes sweet , why fats are fattening and how to avoid yucky green-grey slushy cabbage . |
| 12 | Nonconformists were slower to attempt some degree of unity than the Church of England , which began the Lambeth Conferences in 1867 . |
| 13 | ( I was the pianist for the school assembly which began the morning . ) |
| 14 | American Airlines , which began the daily flights to Chicago less than a year ago , and an airport spokesman accused the Government of being partly to blame for the decision . |
| 15 | Below Knox 's supposed home once stood the Netherbow Port , a gateway in the town wall , outside which began the abbey 's separate burgh of Canongate . |
| 16 | In spite of these inconveniences , and their exploitation by British policy , it was the collapse of Spanish authority rather than a creole revolution which began the processes by which the Empire was destroyed . |
| 17 | In June 1716 he signed the petition which began the ‘ usages ’ controversy , but soon changed his opinion , fiercely attacking Brett and the ‘ usagers ’ in Reflections Upon Modern Fanaticism ( 1720 ) . |
| 18 | Protesters in Timisoara , the city which began the 1989 revolution , claimed that the full truth about those events had not been told . |
| 19 | United States Secretary of State James Baker paid a visit ( curtailed by Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait which began the Gulf crisis ) to Mongolia in August 1990 [ see p. 37656 ] , and in January 1991 Ochirbat became the first Mongolian head of state to visit the USA [ see p. 37960 ] . |
| 20 | Charles Wilson has pointed out that it was the increased incomes of the landed which began the consumer revolution in England . |
| 21 | Cardiff 's goalkeeper Wood has broken two bones in his right hand , so Ward , who began the season with Droylsden , deputises at Huddersfield … |
| 22 | Both are proteges of Dr Henry Kissinger , who began the US rapprochement with China nearly 20 years ago . |
| 23 | It was Karl Lashley , the pioneer of neuroscience who began the quest for the neural basis of memory , now known as the ‘ engram ’ . |
| 24 | Wattana 's win means he has assumed World Series favourite status from Parrott , who began the day with a two-point lead after events in Beijing , Motherwell and Antwerp . |
| 25 | Norman Hartnell , who began the business in 1923 with his sister , designed the majority of the Queen 's wardrobes for state occasions and foreign tours until his death in 1979 . |
| 26 | A great stride forward was made after 1931 by J.N.L. Myres who began the systematic investigation of early Anglo-Saxon pottery ( Myres 1969 , pp. 1–5 ) , yet there was no clear statement concerning the methods used to establish the chronology of the vessels under review , despite quite specific dates being ascribed . |
| 27 | And delighted Blades , who began the season on a month 's loan at Molineux , insisted : ‘ I never wanted to leave in the first place . ’ |
| 28 | But it was the stranger after all who began the conversation . |
| 29 | Morley excelled in the lighter types of madrigal and kindred forms ; the supreme masters of the English school were Weelkes , who published his first book in 1597 , and John Wilbye ( 1574–1638 ) who began the following year . |
| 30 | The retired policeman who began the inquiry . |