Example sentences of "began [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 2 | My standing with Harold Wilson began to go downhill in the 1970s , not on personal grounds but because of what might be described as political differences . |
| 3 | Members began to go out into the country on day trips , and the first cricket match between two deaf clubs in the country , which later led to the formation of inter-institute sports activities of billiards , darts , and other sports , took place on 23rd July 1892 at Manchester between Manchester Deaf and Dumb Institute and the Bolton and Bury Institutes . |
| 4 | It was only when he was confronted by God , broken and forced to give up his pride , that he began to see clearly for the first time the vast difference between living a self-directed life and living for God . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His hat tipped off and began to bowl away in the wind . |
| 8 | From about 1883 , when Field-Marshal von Waldersee , the chief of the general staff , developed an active interest in foreign policy , they began to report directly to the general staff and , encouraged by Waldersee , to the emperor himself . |
| 9 | He fired again as the wounded bull turned and began galloping clumsily towards the safety of the trees , but this second shot went wide . |
| 10 | As the day wore on they heard everywhere around them the rill of running water , and grass began to poke up through the snow in clumps . |
| 11 | The United States continued with its permissive monetary policies and dollar outflows began to mount again in the second half of 1972 . |
| 12 | He began to search irritably for the key . |
| 13 | Soon , though , lava began to flow freely from the fissure , quite quietly and in much greater volumes than in the first phase . |
| 14 | It was noted in the Faroes ( where the oystercatcher is the national bird ) , in Scotland , where the birds began to penetrate inland up the river valleys , and in Shetland , where they forsook the shingle beaches and moved to fields and even up on the heather hills . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I just wanted the fight to stop before you began wading in with the rucksack . ’ |
| 17 | Slowly , I began to swim along under the castle walls . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't you dare presume to tell me what I need ! ’ she spat , trembling as she began to clamber on to the quayside . |
| 19 | The Irish had first come to Lancashire in significant numbers in the middle years of the eighteenth century , and their ranks began to swell considerably after the 1846 potato famine . |
| 20 | For the first time in the saga of occupation and exodus , the organisational skills of the Red Cross began to succumb yesterday to the sheer magnitude of the task facing it . |
| 21 | Dumping her bags in the bedroom , she sat down at the kitchen table and began to sift lethargically through the pile of accumulated mail , from time to time eyeing the phone in the hall . |
| 22 | Here , with the concentration on labour-intensive crops , not only large estates with hired labour but large peasant farms also flourished , and even began to catch up with the estates . |
| 23 | We had both had quite a happy day ; but as the sun began to creep round to the west and to decline , I had a feeling of unease . |
| 24 | The three of them began to creep slowly down the hill , moving from tree to tree , but no more than a few yards at a time . |
| 25 | The Requalification team began to work closely with the co-ordinator and the authors , identifying the criteria to be achieved and monitoring and assisting with the progress documents . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Now Duke and his brothers began trimming sideways across the face of the waves , as their ancestors had done , rather than riding them straight into the beach . |
| 28 | David Atkinson , an analyst at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo , notes that the banks ' operating profitability began to deteriorate again in the second half of the last fiscal year . |
| 29 | His health began to deteriorate seriously towards the end of 1826 and he died at South Bank 17 February 1827 . |
| 30 | Parishes were able to cope with their pauper problem until England 's population began to soar dramatically during the second half of the eighteenth century . |