Example sentences of "[conj] he began take " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only after his second marriage , when he was able to share his life with another human being , that he began to take any real satisfaction in his life 's work . |
| 2 | 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 ’ ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Through these his knowledge of and interest in the Broads grew , and he began taking pictures for himself . |
| 5 | Upon leaving the Institution , he was apprenticed to a bookbinder but this did not satisfy his ambitions , and he began to take a leading part in the affairs of the deaf . |
| 6 | Coming to London as a young clerk attached to the Board of Trade , it was not long before he began to take an interest in political affairs , and his remarkable gift for public speaking was developed at the old Battersea Parliament , to which belonged many men who have since played important roles in public life … including Stanley ( now Lord ) Buckmaster , John Burns and Horatio Bottomley … . |
| 7 | ‘ There , there , ’ he kept saying , until she lay calm against his shoulder , calm and sodden : ‘ Come to bed , ’ he said , and pulled her to her feet , and supported her up the stairs , past the paintings and the roses , and into her bedroom , where she lay motionless as he began to take off her sandals , her tights , her dress . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As he began to take the cork out of a second bottle of wine , she said , ‘ Look … ’ |