Example sentences of "began [to-vb] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They began to see him as an increasingly unreliable tyrant — which to some extent was true . |
| 2 | Far from resenting Lucien 's new-found favour , the other vibrancers in the house began to treat him with a new respect once his alliance with Jeopardy became common knowledge . |
| 3 | We began to treat him like a strange alien person who need to be over-protected , who needed to be shielded from outsiders and the press . |
| 4 | As his championship hopes grew in the second half of the season , his fellow Italian riders began to treat him like their little brother . |
| 5 | Vega went ahead with his set , playing material from his recent ‘ Deuce Avenue ’ album , while the audience began to shower him with beer and spit . |
| 6 | Vega went ahead with his set , playing material from his recent ‘ Deuce Avenue ’ album , while the audience began to shower him with beer and spit . |
| 7 | She began to shower him with desperate gifts . |
| 8 | So saying , she once again burst into tears and , crossing rapidly to George , threw her arms around his neck and stretching up on her toes , began to kiss him with a fervour which shocked him . |
| 9 | He emerged then and she dropped her hand self-consciously , straightened her dress and tried to rearrange her expression into one of indifferent professionalism as an attractive blonde girl draped herself decorously around his neck and began to kiss him with quite unnecessary passion . |
| 10 | It began to lift him over the stair-rail . |
| 11 | Moses , for instance , was a whimpering mass of inferiority as God began to commission him at the burning bush . |
| 12 | And she really began to hate him with such little strength as she had left . |
| 13 | She sensed Corbett 's mood and insisted Maltote change out of his rain-drenched clothes and have something to eat before her husband began to interrogate him as if he was the King 's Master Torturer in the Tower . |
| 14 | And they spat on him , and took the reed and began to beat him on the head , and after they had mocked him they took his robe off and put his garments on them and led him away to be , to crucify him . |
| 15 | She looked around her despairingly and began to push him towards the pantry . |
| 16 | And she , in turn , knowingly and secretly absorbing his stare as she listened to her chattering companions , began to dismiss him as a potential client . |
| 17 | But Mary was out so I gave him the letter and began to tell him about the trouble at home . |
| 18 | Your captain , Seru , was here earlier this morning and began to tell him about the holes in the AOL . |