Example sentences of "he began think " in BNC.

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1 He began thinking about Julie Murchison .
2 Minton , with teasing flattery , referred to his new friend , six years his junior , as his ‘ property consultant ’ , for he asked Goff for advice when he began thinking and talking about moving .
3 A true-grit survivor , he began thinking about a career in politics early , dreaming of being president while still in high school in Arkansas .
4 It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative .
5 Slowly , testing every thought and every memory , he began to think about himself .
6 Playing the light on the remaining two stones , he began to think there was no point in staying .
7 He began to think it must have been his imagination when a motorbike zoomed across their path , clouding the corridor with smoke .
8 He began to think he could be doing more important things like writing to everyone in the country , asking if he was their son .
9 He began to think it would be years before he escaped until the day he bumped into Wednesday , who was now Sunday , as he tip-toed back to Nettles .
10 And he began to think within himself what had happened , and of that breath which had passed through him , and how the leper was not there .
11 He began to think of Julie Murchison again as he negotiated the narrow viaduct which linked the docks to Station Road .
12 There was still the nag of his eye , like a dulled toothache ; but he began to think in a whole new light .
13 He could see no way out and in his anguish he began to think of doing himself in ; the method he would use would have to be quick and simple .
14 But once at the School , in his own place and with his daily occupation , he began to think again of this dream woman , and added to the old notion of what she should be , which Diana had personified , was an idea of her as his rescuer , as someone who would save him and make him whole again .
15 It all came back once he began to think about it .
16 And then he began to think , why not do it , why not ?
17 He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection .
18 However , his new found wealth was also his undoing for he began to think too much and there came a night when , awash to the hack teeth , he boasted of his unholy aide .
19 With the passing of time , he began to think that he 'd taken far too glum a view of the situation .
20 One arm kept getting entangled in the sheets , until he began to think that she was playing a trick on him .
21 He began to think of this as a problem .
22 He began to think about Therese Aschmann — could she be dangerous ?
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