Example sentences of "he began to 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 . |