Example sentences of "began [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With that dulled little blade in his right hand , he began drawing it slowly across the inside of his left wrist . |
| 2 | When he returned home very tired on the Saturday evening she turned on him and began nagging him again about the possibility of a separation and that he should make proper commitment to her . |
| 3 | As soon as Ellie was seated , she began to rib her gently about her life in England , about how sorry she felt for her living in such a confusing place ; regaled her with insights on the local population , and the arrangements being made for the wedding , which was to be held here in the Hall . |
| 4 | ‘ Hear , hear , ’ they said uneasily , raising glasses , and Lydia began to coax everyone through to dinner . |
| 5 | Later , as the Prussians revoked statutes governing the activity of the Jews and laws preventing usury , the Kaszubian farmers began to find themselves heavily in debt . |
| 6 | He tried to ease his body to one side to let her come in but he was surprised once again as she got hold of his hand and began to pull him out of the bed . |
| 7 | However , Liverpool began to pull themselves back into the game , and in the 68th minute Bobby Mimms had to push Ian Rush 's close-range header off the line . |
| 8 | He sat astride the Lock gates and began to pull himself out along the top of them . |
| 9 | She untied the sleeves of her sweater and began to pull it on over her head , aware as she did so of a faint muffled sound behind her . |
| 10 | Lancaster slipped off his spectacles and began to clean them meticulously with a white handkerchief , scouring the rims with his fingernails . |
| 11 | I pulled her to the side where Otley dragged her up the bank and began to dust her down as if she were not wet but dirty . |
| 12 | Taking her cup and saucer over to the sink in the small kitchenette , she began to rinse them out under the tap . |
| 13 | They were a motley collection — these remnants of her mother 's past , she thought , as she began to put them back in the envelope . |
| 14 | Just as they were about to give up hope of finding their way a huge while wolf appeared , which instead of attacking them began to guide them skilfully through the dark wood . |
| 15 | They began to busy themselves cheerfully with preparations for the meal , one or other of them constantly trying to engage Moran with this small thing or that , until he was drawn by their uncanny tact into the general cheerfulness . |
| 16 | At first these services were administered by ad hoc bodies but legislation covering England and Wales in 1888 and 1894 began to draw them together into modern units of local government . |
| 17 | He let the night silently envelop and possess us , let time fall away ; then began to draw me back down the decades . |
| 18 | Climbing one branch higher , Virginia reached out and stroked the cat 's head ; then , gently , she placed her hand round its hind legs and began to ease them out of the fork . |
| 19 | ‘ It began to overhaul itself only as a result of demands from the public and from individual scientists . ’ |
| 20 | She was at senior school by this time , of course , and the senior mistress sent for her , sat her down and began to question her kindly about conditions at home . |
| 21 | When Nigel learned of their whereabouts , he began to hunt them down with the aid of his yeomen . |
| 22 | But even as she protested , he gripped her upper arm and began hauling her unceremoniously from the bed . |
| 23 | About the second week in December he began taking his still into the night lavatory every evening . |
| 24 | Ellen screamed and was instantly seized by the other man , who , laughing at her wild struggles , began to force her down to the floor . |
| 25 | He gripped the side of a curved triangular plate which was fitted to the wall , and began to manoeuvre himself further into the shaft . |
| 26 | She spoke the word aloud as she turned off the water and began rubbing herself furiously with a towel . |
| 27 | She began to pack them together in a pile . |
| 28 | I read more widely and , as news of my expertise spread , people began to seek me out for a ruling on a specific industrial relations issue or for an historical precedent . |
| 29 | The archosaurs , however , gradually began to raise themselves permanently off the ground . |
| 30 | The United States was increasingly distracted by Vietnam , while in 1966 France began to disengage itself militarily from the alliance . |