Example sentences of "began [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I just wanted the fight to stop before you began wading in with the rucksack . ’ |
| 3 | Mr Abello was the fourth-ranking person in the Medellin cartel and the most important suspect arrested since Colombia began cracking down on the cocaine barons nearly two months ago , the department said . |
| 4 | Using the same forthrightness as her brother , she took Hilary 's arm in a firm grip and began walking back to the house . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Alerted by a grapevine of unparalleled efficiency to the presence of honkies with money , hitherto undiscovered talents began swarming in from the ghettos and down from the hills , bearing tape-recordings , even guitars , for impromptu auditions . |
| 7 | The children began filing out of the classroom . |
| 8 | People began piling out of the house : two daughters-in-law , several small children , some unmarried daughters , two old grandfathers and the new bridegroom . |
| 9 | Shortly after Rome Carl began speaking out on the drug issue , implicating by suggestion Ben and his coach Charlie Francis . |
| 10 | At first I thought this must have been intended for someone else and began grubbing about in the wastepaper basket to find the envelope . |
| 11 | Like sleep-walkers in a dream the coolies began advancing out of the shade towards the ship . |
| 12 | Red flares began coming up from the airfield , but the first bombers were committed : they had nowhere to go but down . |
| 13 | The man and I began edging out of the kitchen . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | James began poking about in the store cupboard . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Soon genuine celebrities descended from on high and began showing up on the show . |
| 18 | Tabby immediately began nuzzling up against the frog in a very friendly way , unlike the other two cats who kept in the background , backs arched and humming frantically . |
| 19 | Suddenly , Katrina dropped to her knees and began scrabbling around on the floor . |