Sentence examples for began not on from inspiring English sources

I sometimes wonder if his tracing of our ancestry began not on his travels, or at his desk, but one morning when he glanced into his shaving mirror.

(Roslyn Sulcas) La MaMa Moves Festival (Friday through July 7) This monthlong festival begins not on one of La MaMa's three stages but at Jen Abrams's Brooklyn apartment, where the choreographer's "Any Resemblance" unfolds over several "episodes".

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The battle for New York's basketball heart will begin not on the hot asphalt of Manhattan or on a bustling Brooklyn street corner, but in a quiet quadrant of northeast Ohio.

She has a lot to be mardy about because the adventure begins not on a drowsy riverbank, but a grim funeral reception for Alice's beloved older brother, who has been killed in a drink-driving accident.

Her emancipation begins not by putting on a skirt but by picking up a book.

The book begins not by focusing on technology per se, but with a discussion of designing and staffing an organization, including tips on picking leaders.

It began last week, not on Wednesday.

We drove into the Pearl, parked our cars on the side of the road and began walking, not on a path, simply into the woods.

McGill began focusing not on the stories themselves, but the information such stories left out.

His thumbnail sketches of recent history are as vivid as his descriptions of the plays themselves, starting with the moment at which he says the story of postwar theatre begins - not on VE Day itself, but three months later, when Labour was returned to power.

The focus should be on baseball when the Atlanta Braves play the Mets beginning Thursday night, not on John Rocker.