Example sentences of "and i began " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fish made several deep dives and I began to wonder who would give up first , me or the cod . |
| 2 | Dawn was just breaking and I began to see a little more civilisation and it looked sort of right . |
| 3 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 4 | A cheerful , freckled young woman showed me to a small seedy room and I began to unpack . |
| 5 | Mr Coary gave me some enormous sheets of paper and I began to draw . |
| 6 | In early 1986 , my foot finally healed and I began to train as if I was as fit as I had been before my injury . |
| 7 | Dawn broke as the field passed through a shuttered Bridgetown , and I began to pass through the field . |
| 8 | We were a shot over in the second round and I began to wonder whether he would be mounting a serious challenge . |
| 9 | A few more boys arrived and I began to realise the terrible blunder I had made . |
| 10 | I think I stayed out of a sense of loyalty and I began to enjoy it much more . |
| 11 | Each interview was with a single-sex group of girls or boys , and I began by asking them to choose their favourite character or person on TV and tell me a bit about them . |
| 12 | The N.C.O. brought some blankets and I began to undress . |
| 13 | Harold Davies covered the City Hall , the mayor 's office and the C.P.R. offices ; Jim Miller covered the Police Station and the High Courts , when in session , and I began with the funeral parlour beat and the Board of Trade office , plus weekly meetings and speeches at the Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs in the Grant Hall Hotel . |
| 14 | Aunt Janie had sliced up two large buckets full of seed potatoes , and I began digging the holes for the planting . |
| 15 | I got to know the blobs and wiggles in that rough circle that looked like a sample from an oil slick , until I could draw them blindfold , and I began to visualize them inside me . |
| 16 | So the diet made sense and I began to live on it . |
| 17 | I felt so enthusiastic when I found this out and I began to read the stories , that I thought I saw the River of the Leprechauns , which is the crystal road to their kingdom ‘ Undersea . ’ |
| 18 | Their minds were obviously not on meteorological work , and as the squadron gradually decreased in numbers with each little batch that left for home , farewell parties were a regular occurrence in the office and I began to think that perhaps Binbrook was not such a bad place after all . |
| 19 | One hacker 's wife remarked : ‘ The whole thing started when he began to work late at the office , and I began to think that there was another woman . |
| 20 | I pulled heavy tyres along the sprint straight , and I began weight training . |
| 21 | Each day they grew in number and I began to get really worried , wondering if , while in Greece , I had caught a contagious disease . |
| 22 | Whilst waiting to go to Spring Harvest my visits to church became more regular and I began to realise the truth of God 's Word . |
| 23 | As she and one other laid their hands on me , I leant on their faith , and I began to speak in a new language words of praise to God . |
| 24 | And I began to discover some recent local history as I delved deeper into this pit of hell . |
| 25 | There was no sign of a stone circle , and I began to wonder whether I was lost — and yet I was being ‘ pulled ’ so hard that I was forced to run . |
| 26 | By the time 1972 was out I had found a Vets club in join , the VAC as it was called , and I began to pick up something about the scene — where to find the minor races , who to go to for training advice , the way to use blocks and how to seek out physios for repair purposes — and I took up steady training . |
| 27 | ‘ I knew that they were n't students and I began to resist but one of them hit me over the head with a gun . |
| 28 | By now it was getting late and I began to worry . |
| 29 | Then the organ grinder pulled me away and I began to cry and pull at his coat . |
| 30 | A cat dashed over my feet at one point and I began to think about the disembodied hand in the film . |