Example sentences of "he began [to-vb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | As the days went by , however , and no further incident was reported , he began to relax . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He began to swing his legs again , vigorously . |
| 14 | Finding he could cope , he began to swing his back and both rider and horse presently grew more comfortable . |
| 15 | After a short time had passed he began to tap his foot on the kerb impatiently . |
| 16 | Then he began to tap : ‘ 1 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But given heavy doses of baking soda he began to recover , and was perfectly normal three days later . |
| 19 | Next day the fever had abated and he began to recover . |
| 20 | Distracted also by his own uncertain future , he began to spend less time on Lake Street and more on getting back into journalism . |
| 21 | He began to suck in air through his mouth , producing a gasping sound . |
| 22 | He opened his mouth , and slipping his lips over her restraining finger , he began to suck , his eyes sparkling with wickedness . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He began to remember all the people he had ever known who had been hung . |
| 26 | He began to remember , to re-acknowledge his roots , and to realise that immersion in western music was not his purpose , simply a training . |
| 27 | No sooner was he striding across that tedious countryside , pretending to be interested in disused châteaux and drab churches ( three months ! ) than he began to miss me . |
| 28 | When it was midnight and Rodrigo was fast asleep , the leper breathed against him between his shoulders , and that breath was so strong that it passed through him , even through his breast ; and he awoke , being astounded , and felt for the leper by him , and found him not ; and he began to call him , but there was no reply . |
| 29 | Further experiments with what he began to call ‘ orgone energy ’ demonstrated that it was present everywhere , in the atmosphere and particularly in living things . |
| 30 | He began to hit the table with his hand . |