Example sentences of "began [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men who had found him unsufferable a year or two ago began to see his abilities or his charm . |
| 2 | These things he barely understood , and lacking anybody to talk to , it was at lunchtime sitting before an eagle whose name he did not know was Minch that he began to see his way towards them . |
| 3 | Randolph began to see his point and began to feel happy again , proud with himself . |
| 4 | They have been at Donnington since Claude Arkell 's ( the present owner 's ) ancestor , Thomas , began producing his distinctive beers in the old mill in 1865 . |
| 5 | He began producing his own flour , carrying on his baking business to 1855 . |
| 6 | He began to swing his legs again , vigorously . |
| 7 | Finding he could cope , he began to swing his back and both rider and horse presently grew more comfortable . |
| 8 | Davide began to enjoy his work even less than before ; he applied himself to property transactions . |
| 9 | He dropped his club and , as the culprit began to mouth his apologies , picked up the large wooden tee-box and bellowed : |
| 10 | De Vries soon lost interest and began to promote his ‘ mutation theory ’ , which stressed the role of saltations backed up by evidence that significant new characters were being produced in cultivated populations of the evening primrose . |
| 11 | Zuwaya claimed that a nervous young conscript lost control and began firing his submachine gun ; if that was not the case , Zuwaya said , at any rate the fighting had begun accidentally . |
| 12 | But , having outgrown Stowe and with time to kill before going up to Cambridge , he gravitated , almost inevitably , to the London School of Economics , where his active interest in politics began to overshadow his desire to be a poet . |
| 13 | Mr Garel-Jones , 51 , began building his family after meeting 18-year-old Catalina Garrigues when she was a pupil in his Madrid English class in 1961 . |
| 14 | Steven Horsfield , 13 , has helped his 19-year-old brother , Paul , ever since he began to lose his sight six years ago . |
| 15 | McCourt said Royal Gait was cruising turning into the home straight , but began to lose his action just before the final flight . |
| 16 | Ten years ago , Professor John Hull , who is now Dean of the Faculty of Education and Continuing Studies , began to lose his sight . |
| 17 | He began to instruct his son , this Philip Miller , in the art from his earliest years , as he had an uncommon liking for that occupation . |
| 18 | A gangling youth with personal stereo and the thickest-soled baseball boots Harry had ever seen fell into the adjacent seat and began slapping his knee in time to the music only he could hear . |
| 19 | He began to emphasise his points with one hand . |
| 20 | ‘ I must be spared for a reason , ’ said Liam and began to chance his luck on the Stock Exchange on Wall Street . |
| 21 | Unsatisfied with this development , Edward even began to claim his sede vacante rights retrospectively : thus a benefice which was empty when a new bishop was appointed and was subsequently filled in the normal way by him , was sometimes claimed by Edward to be unlawfully filled , the patronage belonging by regalian right to the crown , even though the king had not exercised this during the vacancy of the see . |
| 22 | He began to flex his political muscles . |
| 23 | Jesus began to untangle his legs . |
| 24 | Pride was a puny thing compared to the feelings rioting inside her , and , with nerves stretched like piano wire , she began to caress his smooth back . |
| 25 | He sat down again and began to refill his pipe . |
| 26 | Zen got out , jumped over the ditch running alongside the track and began to work his way along the edge of the field towards the back of the concrete structure , his shoes rapidly clogging up with mud . |
| 27 | Marcus , who had been leaning forward , relaxed his pose and began to massage his left hand with his right . |
| 28 | He put up his hand and began to massage his temple . |
| 29 | He began to write his own verse whilst still quite young , shyly at first , correcting again and again as his ‘ second thoughts blushed over his first attempts ’ . |
| 30 | At this patently mendacious statement , Sergeant Bird began patting his pockets , but Montgomery knew the signs by now . |