Example sentences of "[pers pn] had begin [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had grown more and more tired , energy seeped away and I had begun to sweat at night . |
| 2 | Not long ago she had begun to talk of life not being worth living again and she had demanded that Harry should tell her , once and for all , why it was worth living . |
| 3 | She had begun to sweat with discomfort . |
| 4 | She had already met this young man , when he had last come to pay his rent , and found him startlingly different from the Welsh boys of her acquaintance — a big , silent boy with disillusioned , almond-shaped eyes sunk above high cheek bones , a boy who had stared unblinkingly at her until she had begun to blush with embarrassment , so that she had felt stripped , not only physically but mentally as well . |
| 5 | He believed the crofters would desert their thatched houses and unprofitable holdings to occupy the comfortable cottages he had begun to build in town . |
| 6 | But writing now was not easy for him : he had begun to suffer with arthritis in the year following his retirement , and had had to give up his violin owing to lack of flexibility of his fingers , and as the condition developed , he found writing more and more difficult . |