Example sentences of "began [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The ‘ Secret Service ’ in America began and continues as a branch of the Treasury hunting down counterfeiters largely by undercover means . |
| 2 | That night the rain began and continued for twenty-four hours . |
| 3 | In June 1948 , just before I bought a gown , the Berlin Airlift began and continued until the autumn of 1949 . |
| 4 | Theodossin also implies a third element here , that the scheme began and developed with a wide range of institutional consent precisely because of features of its initial design ( he points , for example , to the choice of a term-long unit and the control retained by staff over field changes , if not module changes , by students ) . |
| 5 | However at 2100 air attacks on the departing Fleet and convoy began and lasted for the next one and a half hours — torpedo-bombers attempted to attack down moon but were greeted by intense A.A. fire and were forced to turn away . |
| 6 | Pop strategy began and ended with ABC , Heaven 17 , Scritti Politti and Malcolm McLaren . |
| 7 | The Dutch energy planners went on a journey that began and ended with gas . |
| 8 | For all those who thought that homo-eroticism began and ended with Boyz magazine , this photo collection gives a lens-eye view of one Montague Glover , a British Bruce Weber for the Twenties and Thirties ( but without the casting agent , American beefcake or dogs ) . |
| 9 | The Safrane also features voice synthesisers , a failed trend in Britain which began and ended with the Austin Maestro . |
| 10 | Mitchell and Green ( 1978 , Experiment IV ) attempted to distinguish these explanations by presenting subjects with an extract from Pirsig 's novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance , which began and ended with a simple concrete description of the countryside . |
| 11 | As executive producer of the mini-series version of Shogun , broadcast in the '70s , he ensured that each episode began and ended with a shot of the paperback edition on of the novel with his name in big letters . |
| 12 | While still centred on Greek tragedy and associated topics , the plan began and ended with a wide range of other subjects from Buddhism to modern culture and education , from Schiller and Goethe and their drama to the generalities of " art " , " religion " and " science " ; the Greek items went from " Dionysus and Apollo " to " Plato against art " , via the central " music and drama " The plan contained no Greek items unrelated to tragedy , or the birth and death of tragedy , which makes it the earliest of Nietzsche 's plans to define the scope of the Greek material as eventually realized in BT . |
| 13 | ‘ The simple case , ’ said Nikos , ‘ is that the matter began and ended with the Zikr . |
| 14 | The 700 mile route began and ended at Bath , including 22 special stages of competitive driving over tarmac and loose gravel roads , through forests such as Radnor , hill climbing at Prescott and a water splash at Weston Park . |
| 15 | But they always began and ended in this — Get a little further , you are too near me ’ . |
| 16 | When the summit began as planned on March 10 , King Hassan protested in an open letter to the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi . |