Example sentences of "[conj] began [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six miles away , at the mouth of the estuary , the four big transporters , converted specially for the task , lifted one by one from the pad and began to form up in a line across the river . |
| 2 | Georg looked at her and for a moment she thought he was going to grab her , thought he was going to cry himself , but he suddenly stormed out of the dairy and began to stride up towards the lower pasture . |
| 3 | The juggernaut started with a cough and splutter , was thrown into gear and began to move off down the narrow road . |
| 4 | Suddenly , Katrina dropped to her knees and began scrabbling around on the floor . |
| 5 | Deborah turned away from the signpost and began wading back through the deep undergrowth to the main path , intending to break into a run when she reached it ; but just as she turned off she heard a faint , distant , reedy cry , which stopped her in her tracks . |
| 6 | Soon genuine celebrities descended from on high and began showing up on the show . |
| 7 | Using the same forthrightness as her brother , she took Hilary 's arm in a firm grip and began walking back to the house . |
| 8 | Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road . |
| 9 | Ben , his assistant Lucy , John Gould and I sat in amazement as Phyl , the rosy , cosy raven-haired lady who was to be my dresser , mounted an enormous step-ladder and began pinning on to the backcloth , yard after yard after metre after metre of off-white gauze curtaining . |
| 10 | The brave man turned his back on Silver and began to walk back to the beach . |
| 11 | when Sir Henry left the house and began to walk back to the Hall |
| 12 | She looked over her shoulder , shook her head again , and began to walk back towards the stairway to the gallery . |
| 13 | Isobel turned and began to walk back towards the house . |
| 14 | Having done so , slammed the door shut , walked round the front of the car , opened the driver 's door and began to climb in behind the wheel . |
| 15 | At first I thought this must have been intended for someone else and began grubbing about in the wastepaper basket to find the envelope . |