Example sentences of "he had begin [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There remained one last work for him to complete ; already he had begun writing a play which was to concern a successful public man who , at the end of his life , is waiting for death . |
| 2 | Two inoculation houses were opened in London by the end of the year and , in conjunction with his father and brothers , he had begun setting up partnerships throughout the country with ‘ Eminent physicians and surgeons daily applying … to be appointed partners for particular counties , or for foreign parts ’ . |
| 3 | After paying for her younger sister 's lavish wedding last autumn he had begun saving for the world cruise he had promised her mother for their thirtieth wedding anniversary . |
| 4 | Two years before the final fall of the Shah , he had begun transferring his wealth and business interests to Paris . |
| 5 | He had begun building a water-powered factory and consolidating his landed estate by purchase . |
| 6 | When he was at home he had begun living at the School , where he boarded up the broken windows and had the chimneys cleaned . |
| 7 | He returned to the letter he had begun typing earlier . |
| 8 | He had begun working on plans to turn the Wapping Post into a national strike paper when Pilger tipped him off that he was first in line for the editor 's job at News on Sunday . |
| 9 | He had begun retaining from Middleham ( the only one of the three lordships for which evidence survives ) by August 1471 , when he feed the earl 's auditor and councillor Thomas Metcalfe , and further indentures followed in the course of the autumn and winter . |
| 10 | He had begun retaining from Middleham ( the only one of the three lordships for which evidence survives ) by August 1471 , when he feed the earl 's auditor and councillor Thomas Metcalfe , and further indentures followed in the course of the autumn and winter . |
| 11 | Minton is said at this time to have destroyed some of the erotic drawings which he had begun making after seeing those by Fuseli which Wan Ross had acquired from Ruthven Todd . |