Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] he began [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 | I thought I 'd killed him , but my dread was replaced by fear as he began to come round . |
| 7 | James realised he was going to have to live with a monster when he began to immerse himself in the part of Sir Clifford . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He took time to settle and it was not until the second half that he began to make a positive contribution to the match . |
| 11 | He looked away , pretending to stare out of the window as he began to summarise his conclusions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Immediately Tom dragged him from under the blanket and he began barking and chasing his tail . |
| 14 | It was at this point that he began to realize what a very bizarre and difficult case he had fallen into . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There was a sudden bang as he crashed against the Lift , and a scraping sensation as he began to roll along the surface . |
| 17 | Mr Ross had already built a substantial business when he began to approach banks for additional funding . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His face was scarlet and twisted with hate and he began to attack me like a wild animal . |
| 20 | His logical mind lent itself superbly to maths and he began to excel in the subject . |
| 21 | Simon poured hot water into his mug , his lean face creasing into an unattractive , self-congratulating smile as he began to consider the perks of power . |
| 22 | He began moving away from the ball when he began hitting those dreaded laterals with short irons . |
| 23 | ‘ Here , that 's not a nice thing to say , ’ protested Dolly , eyes on his bent head as he began to apply cold compresses . |
| 24 | Minton , with teasing flattery , referred to his new friend , six years his junior , as his ‘ property consultant ’ , for he asked Goff for advice when he began thinking and talking about moving . |
| 25 | Marshall has made an almost mapped-out rise since he began playing the game at the age of eight at his father 's club at Kegworth . |
| 26 | And it was probably because of his desire to ‘ touch ’ space that he began to abandon landscape painting and to devote himself increasingly to still life , in which the depth was naturally more restricted and could be more easily controlled . |
| 27 | I felt the jolt in his chest as I hugged it in rhythm against mine and for a long second could n't believe it , but then he heaved again in my arms and coughed in my face and a mouthful of dirty water shot out in a spout and he began coughing in earnest and choking and gasping for air … gasping , gulping air down , wheezing in his throat , whooping like whooping cough , struggling to fill his functioning lungs . |
| 28 | Scott nodded , watching as Hitch scuttled across the road and disappeared out of sight as he began to descend the embankment steps towards the pier . |
| 29 | At one stage , chief designer Geoff Lawson felt his job was so much at risk that he began looking at houses in the Essex area and making arrangements to move his family . |
| 30 | A pile was already to hand and he began folding the pamphlets and inserting them into the envelopes . |