Example sentences of "began [verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his free hand he started shaking his wallet until the money began to fall out on to the desk . |
| 2 | The droveways and drainage ditches were clearly well maintained throughout and began to silt up only during the currency of late colour-coated wares and coins of the house of Valentinian . |
| 3 | Flora put her hands over her ears and began to jump about all over the kitchen . |
| 4 | ( As for the war metaphor itself , that began to appear not long after the first world war stopped . ) |
| 5 | She turned away from him and began to walk blindly back to the car . |
| 6 | Then we got out and began to walk very quietly along the path towards the house . |
| 7 | Marx himself , as is well known , devoted the greater part of his historical studies to the development of modern capitalism ; his knowledge of some other forms of society was limited , especially in the case of primitive communal society which he began to study systematically only in the years 1879–82 , after the publication of L. H. Morgan 's Ancient Society . |
| 8 | They did not make any hurry about it and Balor writhed and flailed helplessly and blood began to run out on to the ground beneath him . |
| 9 | Raymond Radiguet was a youth of 12 when Modigliani painted him , a brilliant schoolboy who had won a scholarship to a Paris Lycée and began coming in daily to the city from the suburbs . |
| 10 | The competitive threat led the BBC to reassess its broadcasting strategy and it began to respond more positively to the requirements of the audience . |
| 11 | The situation began to change quite rapidly after the Viennese Exhibition of 1873 , the first major public exhibition of oriental rugs , and by the turn of this century the interest aroused in Europe and America was such that Persian and Anatolian weavers were prompted to increase production and , in some cases , to modify their designs . |
| 12 | Whilst still a student at Camberwell Humphrey Lyttelton began playing fairly regularly at the Feldman Swing Club which met every Sunday in the basement at 100 Oxford Street . |
| 13 | I began to think too often of the starveling cat . |
| 14 | During the nineteenth century , as more people survived their last child leaving home , it became a particularly important form of support , with perhaps a quarter of working-class older people in some towns taking in boarders : a pattern which persisted until young people began to marry much earlier in the 1950s , setting up on their own instead — and leaving more of the old on their own . |
| 15 | Then , thanking God , she began to tuck in hungrily with the rest of us and was plied with questions . |
| 16 | It was the prelude to a period of closer co-operation in the Middle East which began to break up only in the later 1960s when the British government decided to retreat from most of its " East of Suez " commitments . |
| 17 | Forming into a huge and solidly packed square the combined army began to move steadily back towards the gate . |
| 18 | I began to move more freely around the island again , and built myself a third house . |
| 19 | The figure looked back saw Martin and began to move more quickly between the graves and mausoleums . |
| 20 | But on 19th April the wind began to blow very violently from the west , and we were driven to the east of the Molucca Islands . |
| 21 | Loopy Lil began piling the tea-things on to the tray to carry back to the kitchen , and Mrs Hollidaye suggested Gloria should go and help bring in the vegetables from the shed for supper , when an insistent bell began ringing out somewhere within the house . |
| 22 | Constance had been sound asleep for an hour before the double-engined train began to jerk laboriously out of the station , leaving many travellers on the platform to wait who knew how long for the next express . |
| 23 | Throughout the eighteenth century peasant flight , resistance , murder , and revolt were endemic , and the incidence of peasant disturbance began to rise again soon after the Napoleonic Wars . |
| 24 | He began to speak out loud over the sound of the copious running water ; he congratulated himself for not crying in public , he congratulated himself for not getting hurt , for not letting himself be assaulted on the way home , for not letting anyone corner him or get him down on the floor or up against a wall but for keeping walking instead . |