Example sentences of "began [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 2 | Charlie now found himself in front and began firing at the Germans as their heads popped up from behind the dug-outs . |
| 3 | Spurred by a sense of the growing opposition , especially after Chernobyl , it began to agitate at the grass roots . |
| 4 | Catesby instructed us to take a bench leaning against the far wall and , though the space was narrow , we began to pound at the door like besiegers breaking into a castle . |
| 5 | The first batch of five coolies were flung face downward in the red dirt , and under the direction of the burly figure of Phat , half a dozen of his subordinates began lashing at the exposed soles of their bare feet . |
| 6 | In the pre-civil war period , one group of clerics and laymen who shared this approach and who thus opposed the confrontational policies of Laud and his followers , began to meet at the house of Lucius Cary , Lord Falkland , at Great Tew in Oxfordshire . |
| 7 | Then the princess 's soldiers began to batter at the doors of the wooden fortress with their axes . |
| 8 | Johnny , as though realizing for the first time that he was still wearing his pyjama trousers , began to worry at the knot in the cord at his waist , the trembling of his hands causing him to fumble ineffectively . |
| 9 | For the sake of appearances , he picked up another brush and began swatting at the sleeves and lapels of his suit . |
| 10 | A small pulse began to hammer at the base of Lindsey 's throat as she rose to her feet to pour more coffee . |
| 11 | At last a smile began to pull at the folds in Sir Charles 's face , as if his cheeks really were wallets and his smile was going through them , looking for cash , then the smile turned to laughter , it pushed between his teeth , it was dry and rhythmic , it sounded uncannily like someone counting a stack of dollar bills . |
| 12 | How it was defended by those at the core of the community and how cracks began to appear at the periphery gives Hubauer the material to explore the hypothesis that extrinsic influences are likely to affect allegiances when scientists experience rival theories as incommensurable paradigms . |
| 13 | Frantically he began tearing at the small buttons that ran from her waist to the collar of her dark blouse . |
| 14 | I picked up a book , but put it down again and began looking at a tiny red spider on the leaf of a geranium , ad lost count of time . |
| 15 | Charged with the setting up of a central UK single professional register of nurses , midwives and health visitors , and mindful of its responsibilities for enhancing professional standards , the UKCC first began looking at the issue of mandatory refreshment for nurses and health visitors while still a shadow body in 1982 . |
| 16 | Only it was so hard to do that , especially when she began looking at the sketches she had made at Kenilworth . |
| 17 | He dropped my wrists and began picking at the bread , rolling bits of it into little grey balls . |
| 18 | When the power rear doors opened , the men moved out to the left and right of their vehicles , into their battle positions , and began to shoot at the enemy . |
| 19 | But his interest grew as he worked , and he began to aim at a comprehensive expository commentary on Epicurus . |
| 20 | He began to aim at the other man , who was reloading his Luger , but was stopped by the Doctor 's hand on his shoulder . |
| 21 | Where or with whom James received his training is not known , but by 1783 he was established in London ; and in that year he announced himself by publishing a pamphlet on A Method of Constructing Vapour Baths , and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy . |
| 22 | His fingers began to scrabble at the coarse edge of the steel plate . |
| 23 | The porter fell to his knees and began to scrabble at the soft soil next to the wooden scaffold pole . |
| 24 | Idly she began to stab at the wet ground with it , but it struck something hard straight away . |
| 25 | During the summer when there was not even a blade of green grass in the paddock , her feed of oats and other goodies became inordinately important to her , to the extent that one day when her dinner had not arrived at the usual time she began to paw at the fence in anxiety . |
| 26 | They began selling at an early age , certainly before 10 years of age . |
| 27 | Spa towns led by Bath , ports headed by Bristol and Liverpool and including the new venture at Whitehaven , and manufacturing centres like Birmingham , Leeds , Manchester and Sheffield began to grow at a significant rate . |
| 28 | And instead of seeing it as something God had ordained , we began to look at the exploitation of the poor by the rich in a political way , but using Christian concepts . |
| 29 | Though several economists in the late 1950s began to look at the economics of education , it was Schultz 's presidential address to the American Economic Association in 1960 that heralded the arrival of the human capital theory on the international academic scene . |
| 30 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |