1 "The Swithins," Mrs. Swithin began.
2 I know where the tit nests, he began.
3 The audience turned to one another and began to talk.
4 Mrs. Manresa began beating her foot and humming in time to it.
5 The tune began; the first note meant a second; the second a third.
6 Suddenly the cows stopped; lowered their heads, and began browsing.
7 The stout lady in the middle began to beat time with her hand on her chair.
8 But if they wandered too far, if they began exploring the grounds, going over the house, then.
9 "We couldn't resist when we saw the name on the signpost," Mrs. Manresa began in her rich fluty voice.
10 A long line of villagers in shirts made of sacking began passing in and out in single file behind her between the trees.
11 The donkey was captured; hampers were loaded; and forming into a procession, the picnickers began to disappear over the hill.
12 Butterfly catching, for generation after generation, began there; for Bartholomew and Lucy; for Giles; for George it had began only the day before yesterday, when, in his little green net, he had caught a cabbage white.