Example sentences of "[pron] began [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly , I began to swim along under the castle walls . |
| 2 | The man and I began edging out of the kitchen . |
| 3 | I began to climb back into the limo . |
| 4 | In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks . |
| 5 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 6 | With such dignity as I could manage I began to walk back to the village . |
| 7 | I just wanted the fight to stop before you began wading in with the rucksack . ’ |
| 8 | She began to scrabble about in the dirt . |
| 9 | She began to back out of the room , trying to focus on a picture hanging behind the old man on the wall above the mantelpiece , a weird dark picture in which an angel of vengeance flew across a purple sky lit by flashes of lightning , sword in hand , and below a man with blood streaming from his neck prayed for mercy . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you dare presume to tell me what I need ! ’ she spat , trembling as she began to clamber on to the quayside . |
| 11 | With Thérèse at her side she began to walk back towards the house . |
| 12 | County prosecutor Matthias Heck said : ‘ One of the victims , a man killed as his house was ransacked , was not discovered until we began tracing back through the string of stolen cars . |
| 13 | It was at about this time that Charles acquired a tutor and through him began to look out on the world through a learned man 's eyes . |
| 14 | They were surprised to see leather helmets and the glitter of ranked steel among the rock-throwing denizens of the north bank and to receive several arrows , harmless in the teeth of the wind , as they began to swing round to the south shore to accomplish their landing . |
| 15 | Bradford showed little of the enterprising approach that has been helping them shed a dour image this season , but it was not until the 64th minute that they began to slide out of the contest . |
| 16 | As they began to rush out of the shops , the bombs exploded . |
| 17 | But this time , everyone was on George Merry 's side , and they began to climb out of the hole . |
| 18 | They began to walk back towards the house . |
| 19 | How could she have been so blind ? she thought privately , as they began to head out to the lagoon . |
| 20 | It began to break down by the 1790s when the pressure of a growing population and insufficient work meant that over a fifth of the labour force was virtually permanently unemployed . |
| 21 | It began to break down in the post-war years and during that period , too , the concentration of control functions in London also began to increase . |
| 22 | He began to move off towards the castle . |
| 23 | He began to hum along with the music . |
| 24 | He began to come back down the tunnel towards her . |
| 25 | He began to climb down into the ditch , hitting at the grass with his pick-handle . |
| 26 | He began to walk down to the windows and saw an envelope on the floor and when he bent to pick it up , the floor creaked and gave way . ’ |
| 27 | He began to walk back towards the house . |