Example sentences of "[art] [noun] began " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was then beginning to wonder whether I was to return alive , as the activities began to get harder but more enjoyable . |
| 2 | The Daurog began to whitter and make shrill noises . |
| 3 | Slowly the boiler began to rattle and , sure enough , it lumbered into life . |
| 4 | They rode in five westbound trains and four eastbound trains , observing how the crowds began to thin , especially in those heading for inner London , encountering no trouble beyond some pushing and shoving by teenage boys and a smoker in the third car who put out his cigarette without protest when one of them asked him . |
| 5 | Despite ominous clouds hanging over the Malvern Hills , the crowds began arriving early at the Three Counties Showground.The Spring Gardening Show has become the regional equivalent of the Chelsea event . |
| 6 | The Prince began to be talked about though this did not necessarily mean that he was being taken seriously as a political alternative to the regime of Louis-Philippe . |
| 7 | Árpad 's father was offered as a human sacrifice before the trek began . |
| 8 | The Hammers defence started to wobble and the Manor began to bubble with excitement . |
| 9 | The ropes began to cut into her flesh , as she wriggled against them to avoid cramp . |
| 10 | The change began with the anguished division of the old Solidarity opposition into warring factions last year . |
| 11 | The nocturne began to grow again and the music was her essence . |
| 12 | Coming back round by the house for the third time , she got quite above herself , and the bike began to wobble alarmingly as she fought to control it . |
| 13 | There was general agreement that the struggle began much earlier — in the schools — and that before O-level . |
| 14 | So the struggle began for unity . |
| 15 | Belinda rose obediently and was back in a minute or two , then the posing began in earnest and there was silence on the veranda as Faye worked and Belinda waited . |
| 16 | Mr Mandela was brought from prison on Robben Island to join his colleagues , and the trial began on 9 October . |
| 17 | The prosecution was in a bit of a quandary ; the main witness , the teenage post-boy , had been inconsiderate enough to die on the day the trial began . |
| 18 | Mr Reed had to wait almost a year before serious preparation for the trial began , and the trial proper did not get underway until 11 February 1991 , by which time the judge had sat through four months of preparatory hearings . |
| 19 | Although WG and AY had failed to come to an agreement before the trial began , a settlement was reached after more than two weeks of opening arguments . |
| 20 | The motion was granted and the trial began . |
| 21 | ‘ I was in the middle of tea when the trial began . ’ |
| 22 | All three were sentenced to 25 years , although Martina Shanahan had served 200 days virtually of solitary confinement at Risley whilst on remand and was said to be losing her mind by the time the trial began . |
| 23 | I should mention that I had bought a few items of clothing that morning , before the trial began . |
| 24 | The trial began on July 20 , 1989 , of 16 men and four women accused of taking over the La Tablada barracks on Jan. 23 , 1989 , when about 40 people were killed and over 60 wounded [ see pp. 36394 ; 36613 ] . |
| 25 | The trial began on Oct. 25 of Darli Alves da Silva and his son Darci Alves Pereira , in the Amazonian town of Xapuri . |
| 26 | The trial began on Sept. 25 of Imam Yasin Abu Bakr , the leader of the coup attempt . |
| 27 | Former Panamanian diplomat Ricardo Bilonick , a crucial witness who was allegedly Noriega 's go-between with Colombia 's Medellín drugs cartel , and who was arrested only two weeks before the trial began , pleaded guilty to a relatively minor racketeering charge on Aug. 29 without having to face more serious drug-trafficking charges . |
| 28 | The trial began amid controversy when the presiding judge , Stanley M. Weisberg , chose to move the venue to Ventura County , an almost exclusively white area inhabited by a disproportionately large number of police officers . |
| 29 | When the trial began in late February 1710 , huge crowds gathered to escort the doctor back and forth from his lodgings to Westminster Hall , shouting that they wished " God would Bless him and send him a happy deliverance " . |
| 30 | But the newspaper was saddled with the legal costs of the trial , which it could have avoided by " paying in " the lowest denomination coin of the realm before the trial began . |