Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] he begin [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swod allowed himself a quarter smile at her recognition but his body was so unused to this display of emotion that he began to cough . |
| 2 | Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew . |
| 3 | A groan was his reply and he began kissing her again , this time letting his lips travel down her throat towards the open neck of her blouse and leaving a hot trail of sensation in his wake . |
| 4 | The nurses helped with all his personal hygiene until he began to re-establish his independence . |
| 5 | ‘ I think he was mad with fear before he began to run . |
| 6 | Fears focused on the £50 billion borrowing requirement for 1993-94 and the narrowness of the window the Chancellor has left for economic recovery in the next 12 months before he begins tightening the tax screw in earnest . |
| 7 | I thought I 'd killed him , but my dread was replaced by fear as he began to come round . |
| 8 | James realised he was going to have to live with a monster when he began to immerse himself in the part of Sir Clifford . |
| 9 | The pepper pot analogy kept coming back to Raymond Cusick as he began sketching his ideas down onto paper . |
| 10 | These things he barely understood , and lacking anybody to talk to , it was at lunchtime sitting before an eagle whose name he did not know was Minch that he began to see his way towards them . |
| 11 | He himself was considered too old for general naval duties so he began to teach these young folk to be first class fishermen . |
| 12 | It was whilst at Manchester University studying for his BSc in construction management that he began to take his lifelong hobby a little more seriously and started to enter competitions . |
| 13 | Mr P R Field of the Oldbury Steam Live Railway Museum ( Bridgnorth ) was our guest speaker on 2 February 1990 when he gave his views on Britain 's railways over the years , first explaining that it was in Scotland that he began to take an interest in them and then he become ‘ hooked ’ ! |
| 14 | He took time to settle and it was not until the second half that he began to make a positive contribution to the match . |
| 15 | It was during the five years he spent in Orkney that he began to make a name for himself in the field of English-language studies ; he was also the writer of the ‘ Orcadian Boatman 's Song ’ . |
| 16 | He looked away , pretending to stare out of the window as he began to summarise his conclusions . |
| 17 | He climbed a short distance up the curve of the dome , then his feet lost their purchase and he began to slide back down again . |
| 18 | Immediately Tom dragged him from under the blanket and he began barking and chasing his tail . |
| 19 | It was in this period that Fleischmann and he began to discuss projects , but they did not start working on any until Pons joined the University of Utah , moving to Salt Lake City in 1983 . |
| 20 | It was at this point that he began to realize what a very bizarre and difficult case he had fallen into . |
| 21 | Although Gordonstoun and Australia had an effect on his character , it was at Cambridge that he began to develop into the man he now is . |
| 22 | It was during the next 8 years that he began to experience the first stirrings of an interest destined to change his life beyond all imaginings . |
| 23 | It took Stephen about half an hour to reach the banks and he began to head across them towards Chesney . |
| 24 | If he was working for only two days every week it would be ten weeks before he began to make a profit . |
| 25 | His eyes are already lining up the entry point as he begins to ease off the front brake and apply handlebar and footrest pressure to steer the bike . |
| 26 | At the point when he began to enjoy himself , he was sent off to go through it all again in Australia , in order that the Commonwealth could be seen to have played some part in his education . |
| 27 | Keeping her eyes on Robert as he began to talk to Dawn , she waited to see a change of expression on Dawn 's face , then , suddenly , her view was blotted out by a tall figure handing her a glass of wine . |
| 28 | There was a sudden bang as he crashed against the Lift , and a scraping sensation as he began to roll along the surface . |
| 29 | Mr Ross had already built a substantial business when he began to approach banks for additional funding . |
| 30 | And Davide could almost fancy he could smell again the stale vaporous emanations of the law in the room as he began to take down details of the wrong that had been done . |