Example sentences of "began [verb] and [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , out of its ruin , yet composed from its constituent parts , a new machine began to thrive and grow with a power of its own . |
| 2 | Fronds of bladderwrack began to stiffen and blanch in the sun . |
| 3 | ‘ But surely , not now ! ’ thought Creggan as , to his astonishment , Woil began to peck and ferret among the rubbish in the bin , ignoring the approaching man altogether . |
| 4 | The wind rose and the long grass began to flutter and ripple in the dip between them . |
| 5 | Its edges , at first three-dimensionally sharp and rigid , after a while began to wave and shimmer on the red heat of the sand . |
| 6 | He began shouting and screaming in a total panic . |
| 7 | The windows were thrown open and people began howling and screaming into the night as the drink mingled in our stomachs and the music got louder . |
| 8 | Reynolds went back and found an electric flashlight by the boiler , and with this he began to stab and search through the first of the three rooms . |
| 9 | At first the walls seemed to be stacked with dense , stocky , motionless objects , but as the nightmare progressed , they began to writhe and squirm in an eerie , soundless dance . |
| 10 | And when father came and took mother for his wife , to live with her and to take care of her , the little egg began to grow and grow into a real little baby . |
| 11 | The siren began to waver and died on a single drawn out discord . |
| 12 | He began to run and jump across the white rocks , exhilarated by the emptiness all round . |
| 13 | A tragic process began to unfold and faced with a entrancement they could not understand , officials made a series of misjudgments that would end in an even greater loss of life . |
| 14 | And then he began to laugh and scream like a man who was mad |
| 15 | The kid began to laugh and steam up the window-pane , then started slapping the glass with a tiny hand leaving greasy fingerprints . |
| 16 | Piano music rippled out into the night as the richly costumed guests began to chatter and exclaim at the torch-lit façade and its huge swags of greenery laced with balloons and ribbons . |
| 17 | The Danes also began to attack and raid along the Flemish and Frisian coasts , reaching as far south as the mouth of the Seine . |
| 18 | as if it were a natural follow-on from this behaviour , the earthen surfaces of the graves began to rise and fall like the chests of sleepers . |
| 19 | I stayed in a flea-ridden inn whilst outside the sea began to seethe and boil under a sudden black storm . |