"pressed to begin" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to describe someone who feels a strong motivation or sense of urgency to start doing something. Here is an example: "After months of procrastination, Maggie finally felt pressed to begin working on her term paper as the deadline approached."
In the months before the Iraq war, he pressed to begin the war with a greater number of troops than authorized in the plan he had inherited.
Their dissents echo the last time the committee was as deeply divided, in November 1992, when three members pressed to begin raising the short-term interest rate, which then stood at 3 percent.
But it then almost fell apart as Mr. Rush was pressed to begin a stage play even as they were preparing to shoot and financing was still being cobbled together from more than a dozen sources.
Researchers pressed to begin their trials while the committee attempted to move at a pace that was prudent, fearing that haste might lead to overlooking an important risk or excessive pondering might delay important research.
David Garcia, a senior software engineer at Facebook, says a small group of Facebook engineers hacked into the Nasdaq button that Mark Zuckerberg pressed to begin trading in the stock so that it would automatically update Mr. Zuckerberg's Facebook status when he pushed it.
A message on the screen will tell you which button to press to begin.
The combination key is a set of keystrokes you create that you will simultaneously press to begin or end the text to speech function.
"The interesting thing," he added, "is that Russell had such contempt for the press to begin with.
By the early 1990s several well-publicized incidents of the harassment of celebrities by fans had led the press to begin speaking of "star stalking".
Additionally, there just isn't enough weight included for leg press to begin.
That it took less than 10 minutes for the press to begin broadcasting her death is an even more searing indictment of contemporary media culture.
