Example sentences of "[pron] began by [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She began by bringing progressional groups and users together on a localised basis to develop a community level of provision . |
| 3 | We began by removing one of the primary indicators of ‘ topic-shift ’ available to a writer , that of indenting a line in his text . |
| 4 | They began by testing 403 children on their ability to pick the odd one out of a list like ‘ hill , pig , pin ’ . |
| 5 | He began by welcoming each man by name . |
| 6 | He began by giving official passports to Jews who could claim some vague connection with Sweden , and ended by thrusting , in defiance of the Gestapo , cyclostyled papers bearing his signature into the hands of anyone he could reach , in the cattle trucks in railway sidings or along the road as the tragic columns struggled by . |
| 7 | He began by giving several examples of how Governments in both West and East Europe had obtained major United Motors ' investment projects by highly discriminatory and blatantly unfair means , which had operated to the detriment of the UK . |
| 8 | He began by saying that with the UK vehicle division 's track record over recent years , he could n't really expect to receive any support to the plan he was about to describe . |
| 9 | He began by doing seasonal work which involved working at the maltings during the winter and working in a brickyard during the summer . |
| 10 | He began by declaring that Liberal members ‘ were not sent here by your constituents to play the part of soldiers of fortune to settle squalid fights ’ . |