Example sentences of "i began [to-vb] with " in BNC.

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1 Well opiates , I began to dabble with them when I was about 16 , after experimenting with cannabis , amphetamines , LSD , opium , and moving in a circle … .
2 So I began to sleep with men in order to discover myself , to see , through their unknown , hitherto unmet eyes , the self that I really was at the same time as the self that I really might be .
3 I began to agree with you , my darling . ’
4 I began to talk with the priest .
5 I never knew her young , but she has never grown older in the years since I began to sit with this hareem .
6 I began to argue with him .
7 Instead of withdrawing and being generally anti-social , as I had been , I began to argue with people — teachers and pupils alike — and to disrupt other people 's activities for the sake of disruption .
8 I began to grapple with the man who was holding me .
9 Slowly , even reluctantly I began to integrate with the idea of Bristol .
10 By the time that I began to work with Ahmed and Amitha , I had resolved within myself that I could n't be anything other than a Black lesbian and that was in itself its own political identity , one that did not require validation from either the women 's , gay or Black movements .
11 The great tousled world about me began to stir with life again .
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