Example sentences of "he begin [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the autumn of 1854 , however , after the allied landing in the Crimea , he began to dwell on the domestic hardships to which the war was giving rise . |
| 2 | But to detectives who investigated the crimes of Dr Courtney , he began to emerge as the perfect model of a rapist . |
| 3 | And he began to connect to the nascent counter-culture , visiting Pete Brown 's home in Oppidans Road , Primrose Hill . |
| 4 | Drawings and prints by his hand are limited in number , although he was an able practitioner in pastel , which he began to use during the 1880s and 1890s . |
| 5 | Instead there was only a blazing , triumphant surge of fulfilment as she accepted the fullness of Rune 's body into her own , and a mounting sense of exhilaration as he began to move in the age-old rhythm of possession . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Soon after we got into the coach , he began to talk in a strange rambling manner . |
| 8 | He began to scratch into the soft earth beside the body , until after a time his claws scraped against something smooth and firm . |
| 9 | His head was swimming and he began to drift into a drunken doze but the sense of a new presence in the stall made him open his eyes again . |
| 10 | But his interest grew as he worked , and he began to aim at a comprehensive expository commentary on Epicurus . |
| 11 | He began to aim at the other man , who was reloading his Luger , but was stopped by the Doctor 's hand on his shoulder . |
| 12 | But he began to chant in a sombre , sing-song voice . |
| 13 | Ideologically , he would not shift his ground ; politically , however , he began to tack to the prevailing wind , giving his regime an appearance of popular , constitutional legitimacy , and gradually taking over and presenting as his own the idea of reinstating the monarchy . |
| 14 | In 1828 he began to write for the fledgling Record newspaper and subsequently became its chief proprietor and the dominant influence on editorial policy for half a century . |
| 15 | Nicholson was in awe of Minnelli ; this was , after all , his first experience of a mainstream director of Minnelli 's vintage , and he began to worry after the first day when it was suggested he might get his hair cut . |
| 16 | Now , in the privacy of the bedroom of his personal suite , swiftly and silently he began to change into the black clothing he wore when prowling the night for victims . |
| 17 | There was still the nag of his eye , like a dulled toothache ; but he began to think in a whole new light . |
| 18 | Clumsily he began to tug at the heavy gold signet ring on one of his fingers . |
| 19 | To an annoyed Pétain he began talking about an early major counter-offensive at Verdun . |
| 20 | In early 1961 he began talking about the Algerian problem as though it were settled , using terms very similar to those which he later used in his memoirs . |
| 21 | His business career remains equally obscure , but it is likely that he began working on the rougher side of the tavern trade . |
| 22 | In 1938 he began working as a graphic artist in New York , eventually becoming art director for Brodovitch at Saks Fifth Avenue . |
| 23 | In 1938 he began working as a graphic artist in New York , eventually becoming art director for Brodovitch at Saks Fifth Avenue . |
| 24 | As the sopranos of the WI soared off into the upper atmosphere he began to feel for the first time that this Christmas had meaning . |
| 25 | In that year he began campaigning against the brutal system of forced labour employed by Leopold II , king of the Belgians , as absolute personal ruler of the Congo Free State , even though this forced him to leave Elder Dempster , where he had become head of the Congo department . |
| 26 | But it was when he began finding the 26 mile 385 yard distance — which he can complete in two hours and 57 minutes — ‘ about right for starters ’ , that he began to look for a new challenge . |
| 27 | His pacifism was couched in the violent language of subversion and revolution , and long before 1917 he began to look for a distinctive Scottish way out of the war . |
| 28 | He began to look for a safe stance for the night … |
| 29 | Frantically he began tearing at the small buttons that ran from her waist to the collar of her dark blouse . |
| 30 | He began tearing off the old , almost ragged , tapestry and prising out tacks . |