Example sentences of "began [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to ease his body to one side to let her come in but he was surprised once again as she got hold of his hand and began to pull him out of the bed . |
| 2 | Taking her cup and saucer over to the sink in the small kitchenette , she began to rinse them out under the tap . |
| 3 | They were a motley collection — these remnants of her mother 's past , she thought , as she began to put them back in the envelope . |
| 4 | He let the night silently envelop and possess us , let time fall away ; then began to draw me back down the decades . |
| 5 | Climbing one branch higher , Virginia reached out and stroked the cat 's head ; then , gently , she placed her hand round its hind legs and began to ease them out of the fork . |
| 6 | When Nigel learned of their whereabouts , he began to hunt them down with the aid of his yeomen . |
| 7 | Ellen screamed and was instantly seized by the other man , who , laughing at her wild struggles , began to force her down to the floor . |
| 8 | I read more widely and , as news of my expertise spread , people began to seek me out for a ruling on a specific industrial relations issue or for an historical precedent . |
| 9 | Then he bent down and began to roll her up in the hearth rug . |
| 10 | Catching her hand , he began tugging her back towards the car . |
| 11 | A group of men who had come with Leofnoth found a broached cask and began to drag it out of the rear of the wood , and Siward had three of them hanged . |
| 12 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |