Example sentences of "[pers pn] began [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My offending started when I became a habitual glue sniffer at the age of 12 and I began stealing to finance it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm annoyed about that , it was only when I began touring that I heard about it , ’ she told the BBC 's top children 's programme Going Live . |
| 3 | It is true that primary schools are providing a better educational service ( with the possible exceptions of spelling and mental arithmetic ) than they were when I began teaching in 1948 . |
| 4 | For a number of seasons , before I began teaching at New York University and going to the Horn of Africa during the early part of the season , I was a tipster for the Sydney Morning Herald . |
| 5 | I looked up again to see that she was still asleep and then I began leafing through the pages , curious to see whose names were entered there . |
| 6 | Curiously , I have become even more strongly persuaded of that since I began dabbling in the making of political television programmes . |
| 7 | We tend to think of these beautiful insects as being very brightly coloured but when I began experimenting I was unable to get convincing results . |
| 8 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 9 | It was after I thought about that that I began moving my things to the cave . |
| 10 | This state of affairs has complicated my present task , since what was current when I began thinking about this book a few years ago , and , indeed , when working on earlier drafts of it , is now ceasing to be so . |
| 11 | When I was fit and well I began thinking about making the relay team for the European Cup Final which was to be held in Moscow . |
| 12 | She was looking very severe with a sort of no-nonsense look about her , and I began thinking , ‘ Oh no , it does n't look like we 're going to be friends . ’ |
| 13 | They emerged as I began thinking about and writing about the data I collected . |
| 14 | But she had n't moved and I began thinking about how I was going to get her out to our vehicle . |
| 15 | But a minute later I could see what was going to happen and I began thinking every which way of how to change the subject . |
| 16 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought it was time I began looking like a human being , ’ she snapped . |
| 18 | ‘ I remember on one occasion , soon after I began operating , cutting into an artery by mistake , and a great spurt of blood like a fountain came up into my face . |
| 19 | Never one to look a gift horse in the mouth , I began kicking it ashore , at the same time trailing the flies in the water behind me . |
| 20 | ‘ I began acting when I was fourteen . ’ |
| 21 | Like most Americans , I began switching channels . |
| 22 | Two brown pelicans flapped past as I began shaping the broken ends of Masquerade 's shattered planking . |
| 23 | Aunt Janie had sliced up two large buckets full of seed potatoes , and I began digging the holes for the planting . |
| 24 | I 'd known her , and her husband Alan Rakoff , for a long time and as I began searching for someone to play Barbara I just found myself thinking about her . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's time I began telling you about Constanza . |
| 26 | I began seeing a Freudian analyst . |
| 27 | From the very first day I saw him I began writing poems to him that later grouped themselves into the sequence entitled ‘ Suite Salmantina ’ which , with other poems about Spain , forms the central part of my collection called The Prodigal Son : Poems 1956–1959 . |
| 28 | Unknown to Dana , I began writing a series of free-verse poems about the pictures . |
| 29 | The experiment I was doing all those months ago when I began writing this book , which I described in Chapter 2 , involved using the sugar fucose as a precursor for glycoprotein . |
| 30 | ‘ An hour later I began vomiting and had diarrhoea . ’ |