Example sentences of "he began to think " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Slowly , testing every thought and every memory , he began to think about himself . |
| 3 | Playing the light on the remaining two stones , he began to think there was no point in staying . |
| 4 | He began to think it must have been his imagination when a motorbike zoomed across their path , clouding the corridor with smoke . |
| 5 | He began to think he could be doing more important things like writing to everyone in the country , asking if he was their son . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He began to think of Julie Murchison again as he negotiated the narrow viaduct which linked the docks to Station Road . |
| 9 | There was still the nag of his eye , like a dulled toothache ; but he began to think in a whole new light . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It all came back once he began to think about it . |
| 13 | And then he began to think , why not do it , why not ? |
| 14 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | With the passing of time , he began to think that he 'd taken far too glum a view of the situation . |
| 17 | One arm kept getting entangled in the sheets , until he began to think that she was playing a trick on him . |
| 18 | He began to think of this as a problem . |
| 19 | He began to think about Therese Aschmann — could she be dangerous ? |