Example sentences of "begin [to-vb] at [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Talbot could n't even begin to guess at his nationality except that he was n't Greek . |
| 2 | The legs and hips begin to work at their maximum power when the club arrives parallel to the ground during the forward swing . |
| 3 | Let us begin to look at what is being done to remedy these problems . |
| 4 | The foregoing chapters will , it is hoped , form a sufficient background and we may now begin to look at their implications for the social worker and for the social work profession . |
| 5 | As for Clive — did he begin to look at somebody else ? ’ she asked shrewdly . |
| 6 | We may become more like them in our styles and habits ; we may begin to look at our children as our parents looked at us ; we may even assume that we will die at the age at which they died , and of the same disease or in the same way . |
| 7 | And then , when you find they say it in the fourth year , they mean it and you begin to look at yourself and realize what colour you are . |
| 8 | You begin to look at yourself and realize what colour you are . |
| 9 | Unseen thorns begin to snatch at your clothes and rip your skin . |
| 10 | As soon as dusk begins to fall , the local starlings begin to arrive at our house . |
| 11 | Siegfried took a long shuddering breath then went over to the bread tin , extracted a loaf and began to saw at it . |
| 12 | If Let Us Compare Mytholoqies marks the awakening of his poetic consciousness when the city of Montreal ( and all that was in it , not excluding its female charms ) ‘ began to jump at me , ’ The Spice-Box Of Earth marks the heightening of his Jewish consciousness which he encountered in young adulthood , as a free agent abroad in the world , having to establish his own identity at a time when his own Tradition , and his position in it , began likewise to jump at him . |
| 13 | She began to work at our factory at the age of 16 . |
| 14 | I told her of my mother Elethandian , your wife , and I would have told her more but she began to scream at me . |
| 15 | He lifted the oars and began to pull at them again , digging heavily into the water to his right , bringing the boat back onto a straight course . |
| 16 | For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes . |
| 17 | He began to pull at it , stooping , sweating and shouting , ‘ Il pozzo ! ’ |
| 18 | It set him aside , he began to look at them with Barnett 's and Lewis 's eyes , thinking of them as unsuccessful because they did n't try . |
| 19 | They hardly expected to see the BMW waiting for them at the dockside , but after they had parked the car and got the ticket , they began to look at their watches , and each other . |
| 20 | She began to look at it again for herself . |
| 21 | And erm well , what do other people think , I mean what , I suppose no one else began to look at it either . |
| 22 | The idea , she says , is spreading throughout the world , and interest is growing here as well , with community groups beginning to look at it . |
| 23 | It was a grim sort of place , and Bunting felt uneasy as a group of workmen began to stare at them and murmur ominously . |
| 24 | A throbbing headache was beginning to gnaw at her . |
| 25 | The tone was insolent , and he began to shout at her . |
| 26 | Demanding to know why , he began to shout at her . |
| 27 | I began to pat at my pockets as if I really meant it but the barman shook his head . |
| 28 | Desperation was beginning to seize at her guts ; Dorothy had tolerated so much from her , but she would not take this . |
| 29 | After fifty , sometimes seventy-five hours without a break , drivers began to collapse at their wheels , and another precious vehicle would be written of– . |
| 30 | Items are beginning to arrive at my home for display . |