Example sentences of "he began to talk " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , said one of them , ‘ when he began to talk about St John , all this was forgotten ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I could see the alcohol taking effect ; he became so excited that he began to talk to me in Italian . |
| 3 | He apparently forgot that I could not understand German or else decided that what he wanted to say could not be left unsaid , for he began to talk fast and seriously . |
| 4 | He began to talk . |
| 5 | Soon after we got into the coach , he began to talk in a strange rambling manner . |
| 6 | Under such pressure the hacker broke down and confessed : ‘ … he began to talk of the pleasure he got out of playing the weirdest experimental games with the computer … |
| 7 | Now that the death looked painful , now that he could see traces of a struggle , he began , in a kind of panic , to say things in his head , he began to talk to the dead man . |
| 8 | ‘ This is the story of how God created the world , ’ and he began to talk about the light and the darkness , the coming of the sky and the sea , the fish and the animals and of Adam and Eve . |
| 9 | As it was quieter now , he began to talk to her . |
| 10 | He began to talk and after an initial hesitancy , the words flowed out . |
| 11 | Then , he began to talk about all the people in No. 43 . |
| 12 | As his outburst proceeded it became vulnerably autobiographical as he began to talk of certain European traditions which , he said , Bacon was not extending but leading into a cul-de-sac . |
| 13 | Then , taking a deep breath , he began to talk , the words tumbling out of him as he finally admitted the truth . |
| 14 | He began to talk of death , and asked us to pray with him . |
| 15 | At first Johann was afraid to speak , but then he began to talk . |
| 16 | He began to talk again about Stephen handing him the wedding-dress , how he 'd walked away with it and had then sat down on a seat on the promenade , not wanting to go on with his act any more . |
| 17 | She finished her own coffee , listening to him as he began to talk about his friend Denzil . |
| 18 | His eyes strayed to the rosy-cheeked children who were chattering happily and , to Meredith 's delight , he began to talk as if questioning his own feelings . |
| 19 | He began to talk to the Colonel with animation I 'd not seen before about hunting deer from helicopters in the South Island . |
| 20 | Rather than talking in general terms about the desirability of renewal , he began to talk in concrete terms of a timetable . |
| 21 | It made her feel that he did n't mind everyone knowing she was his girlfriend , and he was really sweet to her in bed , told her she had lovely hair and said she must never , ever cut it , it was so beautiful , and then he began to talk about Therese , saying how cruel it was that he had carried the company all these years and now , just because she was the Direktor 's favourite — he snorted at this point and said he really did believe Therese must have been old Franz 's mistress years ago in Vienna — he was being treated like a pariah , no consideration , everyone being rude and unkind to him , Therese allowed to do just what she liked on the stage even though she 'd been no-one before she came to Hochhauser . |
| 22 | However , he did not allow her to become too swamped with nervous , trembling uncertainty , as he began to talk calmly and reasonably about his brother 's future life in America , describing some of the amusing mistakes he himself had made in assuming that the English and the Americans spoke the same language — when , in fact , so many words had different meanings . |
| 23 | With grave face and totally businesslike voice he began to talk about the beginnings of this place , of the way he had planned and discussed the enterprise , and how he had enabled the local people to be involved all the way through , so that they knew what he was planning , and they did n't feel threatened by him , but collaborated with him , knowing that it meant jobs , roads and plumbing and a higher standard of living for them all . |
| 24 | Then he began to talk , very quietly , in a curiously flat voice that showed her more clearly than anything else could how much he was holding back . |
| 25 | Keeping her eyes on Robert as he began to talk to Dawn , she waited to see a change of expression on Dawn 's face , then , suddenly , her view was blotted out by a tall figure handing her a glass of wine . |