Example sentences of "he began to take " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coming to London as a young clerk attached to the Board of Trade , it was not long before he began to take an interest in political affairs , and his remarkable gift for public speaking was developed at the old Battersea Parliament , to which belonged many men who have since played important roles in public life … including Stanley ( now Lord ) Buckmaster , John Burns and Horatio Bottomley … . |
| 2 | Upon leaving the Institution , he was apprenticed to a bookbinder but this did not satisfy his ambitions , and he began to take a leading part in the affairs of the deaf . |
| 3 | He began to take Dad 's life for granted again . |
| 4 | And bizarrely enough , the reason he began to take bottleneck seriously in the first place was due to a complete misunderstanding … |
| 5 | Having slid in beside her , he began to take her at once . |
| 6 | Adam had a shirt on , the kind that buttons up , not a T-shirt , but now he began to take it off , having an idea of what might be about to happen . |
| 7 | As he spoke he began to take a backward step , and for an instant Gentle 's dizzied brain almost thought it possible the man would retreat into nothingness ; be proved spirit rather than substance . |
| 8 | It was only after his second marriage , when he was able to share his life with another human being , that he began to take any real satisfaction in his life 's work . |
| 9 | ‘ There , there , ’ he kept saying , until she lay calm against his shoulder , calm and sodden : ‘ Come to bed , ’ he said , and pulled her to her feet , and supported her up the stairs , past the paintings and the roses , and into her bedroom , where she lay motionless as he began to take off her sandals , her tights , her dress . |
| 10 | He began to take her to antique shops , sought out trade exhibitions of fabrics and contemporary furniture , bought her books on design — on Bauhaus , which brought him back to his own youth , on the Viennese Secession with its decorative flights and insistence on utility . |
| 11 | He began to take a liking to John Lydon , who beneath the carefully cultivated exterior of ennui , Branson recognised as being extremely bright , ‘ if rather lazy ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ It moves for me by contrasts , ’ he said , and now he began to take an interest in , even to listen to , what he himself was saying . |
| 13 | And Davide could almost fancy he could smell again the stale vaporous emanations of the law in the room as he began to take down details of the wrong that had been done . |
| 14 | As he began to take the cork out of a second bottle of wine , she said , ‘ Look … ’ |
| 15 | And for another thing , he began to take an interest in me just when I was on the rebound from a very unhappy love affair — the kind of let-down that alters not just your life but even your nature . |
| 16 | Boredom took the place of apprehension in Goreng 's mind ; he began to take it out on people . |
| 17 | When he had rolled a bundle together he began to take down the tent , grabbing at the guy ropes . |
| 18 | Mr P R Field of the Oldbury Steam Live Railway Museum ( Bridgnorth ) was our guest speaker on 2 February 1990 when he gave his views on Britain 's railways over the years , first explaining that it was in Scotland that he began to take an interest in them and then he become ‘ hooked ’ ! |
| 19 | It was whilst at Manchester University studying for his BSc in construction management that he began to take his lifelong hobby a little more seriously and started to enter competitions . |