Example sentences of "he began [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He began thumping the table and insisting the paper install experienced management . |
| 2 | Dotted around the 50-mile long island are Stallone 's five hideaways which he began buying up 10 years ago . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The father-of-three , who used to smoke 60 cigarettes a day , claims that Imperial Tobacco failed to provide health warnings when he began smoking 30 years ago . |
| 7 | In 1854 he began training in the workshops of the Electric Telegraph Co. and four years later transferred to their central London headquarters . |
| 8 | Mr Neasom , 57 , must have set some kind of record since 1974 , when he began reporting Portsmouth matches . |
| 9 | Gingerly , he began slipping his jacket off his left shoulder , then transferred the automatic to his left hand and pulled the coat off completely . |
| 10 | He began counting to himself as he had always done , even as a child , when under stress . |
| 11 | In 1862 he began drilling for salt on Teeside for Leblanc alkali manufacture on Tyneside , but this enterprise hastened the decline of Tyneside industry as the rival Solvay process expanded on the Tees . |
| 12 | When he was nineteen , Reza Shah decided that the Crown Princes marriage was due and so he began trawling the Middle East for the most suitable wife — from a dynastic point of view . |
| 13 | Richard Baker explains how crude the technical facilities were when he began reading the news in the 1950's . |
| 14 | He began reading out the typewritten sheet in front of him : |
| 15 | Soon he began manufacturing a range of agricultural and dairy equipment , much of which was exported . |
| 16 | He began handing cards to some of the people who had let him take their picture . |
| 17 | He began fiddling with the tripod and did n't answer . |
| 18 | Bonito Oliva began to feel his way through this complex labyrinth of the contemporary art world in the Sixties , when , newly armed with degrees in law and philosophy , he began creating visual poetry as a member of Gruppo 63 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The moment Joseph stepped through the doorway he began coughing uncontrollably . |
| 21 | He began throwing himself about in his wild efforts to pop |
| 22 | No sooner had the late ploughing been completed than he began accepting contracts for harrowing . |
| 23 | Inspired by the example of his eldest brother Dick , he began boxing in 1937 , the year in which Dick made his professional debut . |
| 24 | Shortly before his fifteenth birthday he began boxing professionally as ‘ Kid ’ Lewis at the Judaean Club , Whitechapel , where he had nearly fifty contests , and when Premierland opened he boxed there thirty-five times in 1912 . |
| 25 | He always rejected the hellraiser label but he began living up to his image when , in 1953 , he embarked on a drunken affair with Vivien Leigh while filming Elephant Walk in Ceylon . |
| 26 | Having separated from Vera , in about 1930 he began living with Phyllis Lytton Partington , a racehorse owner twenty-five years his junior , who changed her surname to Hill ; they married in 1934 . |
| 27 | After this he began mentioning penicillin at the end of lectures on sulphonamides . |
| 28 | He began trembling again . |
| 29 | He began phoning both Clift and Brando ; Clift tried to discourage Dean , who began signing his letters ‘ James ( Brando-Clift ) Dean ’ . |
| 30 | Then he began phoning wives . |