Example sentences of "he began make " in BNC.

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1 He began to make a collection of brass rubbings .
2 The Prince was becoming enthused , and as he grew more confident about the area he had targeted and took on more projects , he began to make increasingly serious and significant speeches .
3 But still Jack listened , and after a while he began to make out the quick flow of words .
4 He began to make himself a few pence early on — running messages , collecting newspapers for the chip shops and horse dung for fertiliser , finding the pay-penny cracks in life on the narrow streets .
5 As time grew short and the last days of peace slipped away , he began to make arrangements for his departure .
6 She put up her arms to him and he began to make love to her very gently and slowly .
7 He began to make plans .
8 It was during the five years he spent in Orkney that he began to make a name for himself in the field of English-language studies ; he was also the writer of the ‘ Orcadian Boatman 's Song ’ .
9 Keeping his extraordinary savage eyes fixed on her , he began to make his excuses and push the women aside , forcing his way through the group towards her .
10 McAllister , still beset by that strange mixture of desire and fear which gripped her whenever he began to make love to her at even the lightest level , found herself shivering , but allowed him to continue , and when the next kiss found her lips she responded to him , timidly , it was true , but still a response .
11 If he was working for only two days every week it would be ten weeks before he began to make a profit .
12 He took time to settle and it was not until the second half that he began to make a positive contribution to the match .
13 It was only as they drew nearer that he began to make out that it was the concrete skeleton of an unfinished three-storey duplex , its half-built walls , pillars and floors rising out of a sea of mud .
14 In the summer of 1945 he began to make more use of the enormous scope that the interim regime gave him to shape the future of the country .
15 In the first half of 1853 he initiated or sanctioned three responses : " He appealed to Great Britain for support , and took out of the lumber room the forgotten agreement of 1844 " ; he sent an emissary to Constantinople for bilateral talks ; and he began to make plans for fighting .
16 As his eyes slowly became accustomed to the half-light , he began to make out row upon row of brown tents stretching as far as the eye could see .
17 He began making plans to fill Wembley Arena with 12,000 people a night , convinced there were more than enough Kylie fans waiting to see her .
18 In 1952 in northern Greece he began making his own systematic digs , which a quarter of a century later would lead him to the royal treasures .
19 In 1891 he began making plans for a road and in 1893 he commenced work .
20 He began making calculations as to the strength and the direction of the tide , and faced the stark reality that if they were unable to recover him , he would be carried eastward , past the entrance to the Fowey river , for another four hours or more .
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