Example sentences of "had begun [to-vb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was simply that he had begun to fear we had arranged this with Flora : as if , in his mind , he could hear her saying , oh yes , what a splendid idea , I shall be bored with young Adam by Fez … |
| 2 | He had begun to wish he had never come here , to Rab 's house . |
| 3 | That had come in 1948 , when the war scare had eased , the Third Force 's resolve had stiffened , and American economic aid had begun to make itself felt . |
| 4 | Even when Hugh Russell 's attitude towards her had begun to change it had never occurred to her to doubt her parentage for a moment . |
| 5 | But now , as he entered his final years , he had begun to question what had been done in his name . |