Example sentences of "[pron] began by [verb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | of them began by pressing Alt in which |
| 4 | We began by giving Ruth an authentic note which Elvis wrote to President Richard Nixon in December , 1970 . |
| 5 | It began by quoting Pope Paul VI — ‘ the church is certainly not willing to restrict her action only to the religious field ’ — and continued with a critique of Malawi as fashioned by Dr Banda : ‘ A growing gap between rich and poor … a struggle for survival … deplorable wage structure … a deplorable price paid to farmers for some of their crops … bribery and nepotism … an atmosphere of resentment … a climate of mistrust and fear . ’ |