Example sentences of "[pron] began by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began by pointing out that the idea of evolution has been used in two different ways . |
| 2 | I began by learning a bit of the trade and spent a summer up at Glenfiddich helping to put in a new storehouse . |
| 3 | I began by suggesting that , perhaps in practical terms , animal welfare and the protection of the environment have little in common . |
| 4 | I began by reading English and French and , after my mother 's trial , I was allowed to continue my studies by the personal intervention of Rákosi — by his special grace — because my godmother , my father 's first wife , was an extremely popular actress on the national stage , a great star . |
| 5 | I began by taking the cable-car and the chairlift beyond it , then wandered up the lower glacier to the hut . |
| 6 | I began by noting that in 1987 building societies were at the forefront of financial sector reporting , but the influence , in particular , of the EC has narrowed the gap over the past five years , so that the rules applicable to banks ( The Companies Act 1985 ( Bank Accounts ) Regulations 1991 ) and building societies ( the 1992 regulations ) are now very much in line . |
| 7 | I began by squeezing colour into a small ceramic well palette but found that I did not have enough colour for what I wanted to do . |
| 8 | Each interview was with a single-sex group of girls or boys , and I began by asking them to choose their favourite character or person on TV and tell me a bit about them . |
| 9 | I began by asking her if she liked boys . |
| 10 | Well John Hume 's meetings with Gerry Addams have been overshadowed by that meeting between the prime ministers of Great Britain and the Irish Republic , overshadowed and overtaken , according to Mr Major , I talked about that to John Hume a little earlier this morning , but I began by asking for his reaction to the latest murders . |
| 11 | I began by asking Sir Peter to recall the incidents that led to Britten 's choosing George Crabbe 's The Borough , and specifically the story of the fisherman , Peter Grimes , as the subject of his first opera . |
| 12 | I began by describing the position as Labour Members see it . |
| 13 | To this end , Ritschl offered a fresh account of the nature of religion , an account which began by considering what religion is for . |
| 14 | Another contender may be the emerging empire of Thaksin Shinawatra , who began by distributing IBM computers in Thailand , set up the country 's first cable-television operation and has now received permission to establish his own cellular-telephone network . |
| 15 | A staff nurse who began by working on an elderly care ward part-time from 9am to 2pm is now working virtually full-time , despite having five children . |
| 16 | End your massage the same way you began by placing one hand on your partner 's head and the other at the base of the spine and then at the feet . |
| 17 | She began by assuring me that no disease is 100 per cent fatal . |
| 18 | She began by bringing progressional groups and users together on a localised basis to develop a community level of provision . |
| 19 | She began by destroying the contents of the studio , slashing all his canvases , painted or not , then tracking the felon himself , and mounting an assault that literally brought him to his knees , in fear for his balls . |
| 20 | She began by rewriting the syllabus to bring it in line with GCSE , which involved some reduction in content . |
| 21 | She began by saying ‘ excuse me ’ politely and trying to manoeuvre her trolley round people . |
| 22 | She began by waking up on the tail-end of absorbing conversations with the white-robed monk who sat on the chair beside her , and it was n't long before the discussions became a full-time activity . |
| 23 | In carefully structured interviews on the concept of God with three and four-year old children she found that if she began by asking them to distinguish between objects which were man-made and ones which were natural and then to speculate about origins in each case , a majority of the responses referred to the natural objects being made by God or an unknown power ( almost half and half responses on this ) . |
| 24 | of them began by pressing Alt in which |
| 25 | Of the nasty strategies , one or two of them began by increasing in frequency , but their prosperity , like that of Cheat in my simulation , was short-lived . |
| 26 | Section One began by asking for demographic information : gender , school , subject(s) taught , years in teaching and status in school . |
| 27 | Practically each one began by saying , ‘ This is like coming to the Headmaster 's study . ’ |
| 28 | However , we conclude as we began by repeating that there are no ‘ golden rules ’ for producing good ideas . |
| 29 | On that occasion we began by discussing mistakes and human fallibility . |
| 30 | We began by considering the concept of a ‘ mental lexicon ’ and we described the evolution of the Logogen Model of word recognition . |