Example sentences of "he began [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and Hopper were convinced they were in love , but between engagement and marriage her passion for him began to cool . |
| 2 | Books about him and ostensibly by him began to fill bookshop windows — they still do . |
| 3 | A man struck up a tune on a concertina and those near him began to dance . |
| 4 | He did not know what had possessed him the night before , yet , gradually , the sweetness she gave him began to dissolve his confusion ; his vivid spurt of pleasure returned to him and he looked across at her and asked , ‘ Will you be coming to the passeggiata next Saturday ? ’ |
| 5 | It was at about this time that Charles acquired a tutor and through him began to look out on the world through a learned man 's eyes . |
| 6 | And as the romantic in him began to despair that his dream would never materialise , his promiscuity increased . |
| 7 | He began to whimper with fear . |
| 8 | This was the closest he would come to that association of the best " minds " sharing certain fundamental ideals which had been a preoccupation of his since the early Twenties ; and indeed it was through such encounters that he began to formulate the ideas which he was to express in The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards The Definition of Culture . |
| 9 | He began to clean his teeth , jabbing at his mouth , then dropped the toothbrush on to the floor . |
| 10 | He began thumping the table and insisting the paper install experienced management . |
| 11 | But Princeton seemed more agreeable than most university towns " and after he had met some old friends , like the Maritains and the Niebuhrs , he began to relax . |
| 12 | As the days went by , however , and no further incident was reported , he began to relax . |
| 13 | He seems to have enjoyed the patronage of influential people , who probably subsidized the books he began to publish in the Armada year of 1588 . |
| 14 | He began to swing his legs again , vigorously . |
| 15 | Finding he could cope , he began to swing his back and both rider and horse presently grew more comfortable . |
| 16 | After a short time had passed he began to tap his foot on the kerb impatiently . |
| 17 | Then he began to tap : ‘ 1 . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , as he began to recover from his operation , Mr Honecker clearly had to face the problem of the embassy refugees and the mass emigration , and the decision to let the first batch go was obviously his . |
| 19 | But given heavy doses of baking soda he began to recover , and was perfectly normal three days later . |
| 20 | Next day the fever had abated and he began to recover . |
| 21 | Dotted around the 50-mile long island are Stallone 's five hideaways which he began buying up 10 years ago . |
| 22 | His parents were storekeepers , and nothing in his education pointed to a career in the arts , except perhaps that when , as a young man , he began buying locally manufactured handicrafts , for subsequent resale , he was introduced to the creative urge latent in the people who produced the goods . |
| 23 | In 1717 he began buying land in Kent and the city of London , which eventually placed the family among the largest landowners in the county ; it was said to be possible to walk for a day in north-west Kent without leaving Page property . |
| 24 | At about the same time he began buying copyrights : the first book to bear his imprint was an edition of Horace 's Lyrics , published in 1653 ; the first copyright he registered with the Stationers ' Company was a translation by Sir Kenelm Digby [ q.v. ] of Albert the Great 's Treatise Adhering to God , entered 19 September 1653 . |
| 25 | Distracted also by his own uncertain future , he began to spend less time on Lake Street and more on getting back into journalism . |
| 26 | He began to suck in air through his mouth , producing a gasping sound . |
| 27 | He opened his mouth , and slipping his lips over her restraining finger , he began to suck , his eyes sparkling with wickedness . |
| 28 | Although Paul usually forgot his dreams on waking in the morning , he began to remember his dreams and started to keep a diary of what he had dreamt . |
| 29 | Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone . |
| 30 | He began to remember all the people he had ever known who had been hung . |