Example sentences of "[adv] began [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So began a glorious episode in Hindu legend , leading not only to Ravana 's defeat at Rama 's hands , but , centuries later , to problems for the secular forces ruling modern India . |
| 2 | And so began a happy parliamentary career lasting until 1970 . |
| 3 | So began a relationship on and off stage that gave the audiences some of the finest Tiller work . |
| 4 | So began a last deadly conflict . |
| 5 | And so began a friendship that before Ellie knew it had become a courtship . |
| 6 | And so began a chain of events , of misunderstandings , laughter , anger , and bitter recrimination . |
| 7 | Deirdre joined the literature committee in 1985 after the closure of Craiglockhart College of Education , where she had been principal lecturer in English , and so began a second career . |
| 8 | The mullah made a drink from the berries which kept him awake throughout his prayers , and so began the tradition of coffee drinking . |
| 9 | In 1911 , the Society of Chemical Industries in Basle , Switzerland , secured the entire shareholding of the Clayton business and took control ; so began the Swiss connection . |
| 10 | In 1337 , Edward III of England launched his assault on the French crown and so began the Hundred Years War , in which Champagne became one of the principal battlegrounds . |
| 11 | Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin launched his first airship in 1900 , and so began the age of the hydrogen-filled craft in which Germany led the world for two decades . |
| 12 | And so began the brutal battle for power between the new , clan-dominated forces of General Mohamed Farah Aideed and his rival Mohamed Ali Mahdi . |
| 13 | So began the great days of exploration and building . |
| 14 | So began the chain of events which ensured that his name remains so widely known , two centuries later , because with the title of High Sheriff came the responsibility for the county gaol . |
| 15 | In 1106 Kálmán acceded to the Hungarian throne , and so began the long and often troubled relationship between Croatia and Hungary which lasted for over eight centuries . |
| 16 | For a year and a day the boy did not work and hardly ever spoke but one day when he was watching his father fashion a sword for an important chief he exclaimed " That is not the way to do it " and taking the tools soon made a sword the like of which was never seen before , and so began the famous Islay swords . |
| 17 | So began the long history of the temporal power of the pope , of the pope 's control of the Western empire , of papal monarchical powers and of the Papal State , the territories of the pope that survived until 1870 . |
| 18 | Langton was to be promoted archbishop of Canterbury by Innocent and so began the long quarrel between the Holy See and King John . |
| 19 | The following day the Squadron was told that it was to transfer to pinpoint daylight bombing , and so began an intensive training period of low level flying and combing , although night ops and a day anti-shipping role continued . |
| 20 | Rather than ending the discussion this decision merely began a period of three years during which the issue of " Unity " was rarely off the agendas of local Labour parties , trade unions and other sections of the labour movement . |
| 21 | I put before the whole House my own views with an appalling frankness [ he typically but unwisely began the crucial passage ] . |
| 22 | ( It did n't ; it only began a spate of them . ) |
| 23 | From that first evening together began a series of shared outings : days that were so nearly enchanted — evenings too , when she could forget what might await her return . |
| 24 | As the saying goes ‘ we clicked ’ and thus began a friendship and correspondence between Ella Shields and me over a period of years until her death in 1952 . |
| 25 | Thus began a lasting , affectionate and occasionally remunerative ménage à trois , as well as Kate 's career as cinematographic mother superior . |
| 26 | Thus began a 30 minute gag-telling session , doctor gags , hospital gags and funeral gags , until we 'd laughed away the atmosphere . |
| 27 | Charles Greville , into the hands of Paul Sandby ( 1725–1809 ) who , in 1775 , published Twelve Views in Aquatinta and thus began a vogue that reached its artistic peak with such artists as Thomas Malton ( 1748–1804 ) and William Daniell ( 1769–1837 ) , mentioned above . |
| 28 | Thus began a desperate search for a toxic dump site for County Cork , with each move the County Council made resulting in the mushrooming of local opposition . |
| 29 | Thus began a series of documentary films and books about the conflict with the German Navy in the Second World War . |
| 30 | Thus began a second period of explosive growth in Lothern . |