Example sentences of "began [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been at Donnington since Claude Arkell 's ( the present owner 's ) ancestor , Thomas , began producing his distinctive beers in the old mill in 1865 . |
| 2 | He began producing his own flour , carrying on his baking business to 1855 . |
| 3 | He began to flex his political muscles . |
| 4 | Pride was a puny thing compared to the feelings rioting inside her , and , with nerves stretched like piano wire , she began to caress his smooth back . |
| 5 | Marcus , who had been leaning forward , relaxed his pose and began to massage his left hand with his right . |
| 6 | He began to write his own verse whilst still quite young , shyly at first , correcting again and again as his ‘ second thoughts blushed over his first attempts ’ . |
| 7 | He began to find his own satisfactions in doing well at school , in his friends , in his drawings . |
| 8 | His weight had increased since their marriage , and she began to dread his nightly activity , but she accepted it without complaint as the price she had to pay for Corrie . |
| 9 | He stretched willingly across her knees , and she began to wallop his bare backside with sharp , stinging blows . |
| 10 | So Soapy decided to go to prison , and at once began to try his first plan . |
| 11 | Although his Spanish translation of the Mishnah was never published , and indeed is now lost , when Surenhusius began publishing his own Latin version at Amsterdam in 1698 he paid tribute to Abendana 's work . |
| 12 | He began developing his own contacts with the Chinese government , and advocating the view that Hong Kong should learn to accept China as a ‘ protector and friend ’ with whom a deepening relationship was both desirable and necessary . |
| 13 | Tiny hands stroked his arms and began to explore his outer pockets . |
| 14 | It was during this time , when he was again near to death , than he began writing his best known book The Saint 's Everlasting Rest . |
| 15 | Here he began writing his Mosaic Chronology — a book in three parts on Patriarchal Christianity of which only the Stonehenge and Avebury sections were published . |
| 16 | Entranced by the aphrodisiacs in his prawn cocktail , McAvennie began to visit his new girl every weekend , flying to the London nightlife and eventually provoking a dispute with Celtic manager Billy McNeill when he failed to show up for a Monday morning training session . |
| 17 | When he lowered Grainne on to the pile of thick fur rugs before the fire , he was trembling , but when he stood up and began to unfasten his own clothes , he did so with a calm sureness and a gentle authority . |
| 18 | At this time he began to combine his visual records with considerable written comment and analysis of his experiences . |
| 19 | Once more she began to resent his authoritative manner , and he seemed to read her thoughts . |
| 20 | She listened to the way he spoke and began imitating his careful diction , and her natural grace was an asset when she walked at his side . |
| 21 | Each commander began to beseech his immediate superior for reinforcements . |
| 22 | When he was satisfied that the blade was true , he held up his left arm , pinching the tip of his nose between thumb and forefinger , and with the other hand began to shave his lathered upper lip . |
| 23 | ‘ Sweet God , ’ he said after a few seconds , then began buttoning his blue coat . |
| 24 | He began cutting his own samples on his mother 's kitchen table and getting them made up by his sister and her friends at the dressmaker 's where she worked . |
| 25 | In 1895 he began to build his first full-size glider , the Bat ; it had pronounced dihedral , and was fitted with a rudder but no tailplane . |
| 26 | It was during the time of Viking domination that Rognvald Kolsson began to build his magnificent , red sandstone cathedral in Kirkwall , named after martyred St Magnus , killed on the island of Eglisay in 1116 AD . |
| 27 | He simply demolished the lifelong routine and began to build his own life . |
| 28 | But there , Field , feted as a celebrity , and roundly fed up of his employer 's parsimony , began to build his own career . |
| 29 | I thought that was why he began to type his own notes , you see . |
| 30 | At the Fine Art Society ( to 14 May ) , Gordon Cooke has organised an exhibition of Sutherland 's etchings from 1923 to 1938 , the formative period when he was influenced by Samuel Palmer and then began to forge his own style . |