Example sentences of "he begins [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He begins to sing , in a distracted and toneless voice : |
| 2 | I follow him down , lose him in a small cloud , recover visual contact , and stay just above him as he begins to circle . |
| 3 | He begins to dance , holding the bells — a pair in each hand — rigid by his groin . |
| 4 | Yet he begins to notice if we do it . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's little point him staying in Britain unless he begins to act on jobs , industry and the housing market . ’ |
| 6 | Fears focused on the £50 billion borrowing requirement for 1993-94 and the narrowness of the window the Chancellor has left for economic recovery in the next 12 months before he begins tightening the tax screw in earnest . |
| 7 | A quarter of an hour later , he begins to take up the strings of eggs , twining them around his hind legs . |
| 8 | He begins to ask himself realistic questions . |
| 9 | Moses ' long communion with God shows in his face when he returns to the people : he begins to reflect something of God 's own glory ( see 2 Corinthians 3–18 ) . |
| 10 | It 's only a matter of time before he begins to move north , and I have an itch in my sword arm says the time 's running short . ’ |
| 11 | He begins to jog , kicking off his sandals , leaving them where they fall . |
| 12 | He begins to snore . |
| 13 | His pedipalps are brightly coloured and patterned and as soon as he sights a female , he begins to signal with them in a kind of manic semaphore . |
| 14 | pondering the absence on Raasay of deer , hares and rabbits , and expanding to discuss beasts of prey , he begins to give a picture of a small island community in the eighteenth century as comprehensively and economically as any reader could desire . |
| 15 | Then he begins to wonder . |
| 16 | Hugo says I am so persuasive in convincing myself on this subject he begins to wonder who it is who speaks through Eleanor Darcy , is it God or the Devil ? |
| 17 | In short , he begins to display precisely the comportment his contemporaries would have expected of their rightful king . |
| 18 | Using his wings he begins to glide downwards , and by dropping one wing tip and then the other he guides himself towards the enemy army and his chosen target . |
| 19 | The need for a German theatre , as part of a wider literary and philosophical programme for Germany , arises at the point where Herder sets out to emphasize the Englishness of Shakespeare and the French character of the court of Louis XIV and its drama , and where he begins to point to the absence of a comparable phenomenon in the " Germany " — that is , the conglomeration of German principalities and duchies — of his own day . |
| 20 | He realises that certain members of the crew , the hated mate Andy among them , have a quality which he begins to define : |
| 21 | His eyes are already lining up the entry point as he begins to ease off the front brake and apply handlebar and footrest pressure to steer the bike . |
| 22 | I mean as soon as it 's clear that the middle peasants are coming under pressure December nineteen forty seven , he begins to issue statements , we must protect the middle peasant and as , as said the , the , the nineteen thirty three class documents are reissued er which make it very clear that , that middle peasants must be protected . |
| 23 | The emotions of hatred and jealousy are immediately superseded by the more primitive instinct of survival , and he begins to realise that all may yet be well if he can keep his head . |
| 24 | Er — ’ ( he begins pacing then stops , freeze-framed , body facing one direction , head angled strangely and facing the other . |
| 25 | And , however much his wife or girlfriend tries to reassure him , eventually he begins to feel that his very manhood is in question . |
| 26 | He begins to experiment with LSD in an attempt to obtain more understanding of his problems . |
| 27 | He begins to doubt himself , lowering his self-confidence and self-esteem and making the next approach to a girl more difficult . |
| 28 | When he has shot and eaten his final prisoner , he begins to worry what he will do for food ; but fortunately a seaplane arrives at this point and rescues him . |
| 29 | He begins to read , beautifully , lyrically , with heartfelt empathy , a poem by Wole Soyinka in which the poet tried to rent a room in London in the 1950s , and the landladies on the telephone ask him just precisely how black he is . |
| 30 | The driver , of course , does n't find anything , so he begins to work his way through our pockets . |