Example sentences of "he begin [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sweeper had come by , Slorne was upset about something , then Minch … and he beginning to wake to the sense that something was going to happen , something … and then the CRACK ! |
| 2 | He seems to have enjoyed the patronage of influential people , who probably subsidized the books he began to publish in the Armada year of 1588 . |
| 3 | With a kind of stolid tranquillity he began to reflect on the day 's work ahead . |
| 4 | Leaning back , he began to reach for the packet of cigars , then made a wry face and changed his mind . |
| 5 | He began to reach for the handle with a gloved hand and then pulled nervously back , remembering what had happened to Frye . |
| 6 | He began to realize from the nature of these sites how the leys could have been constructed . |
| 7 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |
| 8 | She leaned against him comfortably , and he began to wonder about the possibilities in aiming for the wide sleeve of her dress . |
| 9 | He began to object to the way the treasure was being shared out , but Bartholomew failed to take him seriously . |
| 10 | He began to move towards the door . |
| 11 | He began to move towards the door . |
| 12 | He began to move towards the end of the bar where Jacko Roberts was drinking alone . |
| 13 | He began to move to the door , but Anna took his arm . |
| 14 | He began to move round the Lad , and Taliesin , who was watching closely , thought that Fael-Inis was creating an invisible circle . |
| 15 | ‘ This is the story of how God created the world , ’ and he began to talk about the light and the darkness , the coming of the sky and the sea , the fish and the animals and of Adam and Eve . |
| 16 | With grave face and totally businesslike voice he began to talk about the beginnings of this place , of the way he had planned and discussed the enterprise , and how he had enabled the local people to be involved all the way through , so that they knew what he was planning , and they did n't feel threatened by him , but collaborated with him , knowing that it meant jobs , roads and plumbing and a higher standard of living for them all . |
| 17 | He began to talk to the Colonel with animation I 'd not seen before about hunting deer from helicopters in the South Island . |
| 18 | Under such pressure the hacker broke down and confessed : ‘ … he began to talk of the pleasure he got out of playing the weirdest experimental games with the computer … |
| 19 | I jogged down the stairs while he began to argue with the builders . |
| 20 | Gesturing that she was to follow him , he began to march along the path that led down the hill , and was quickly out of sight . |
| 21 | He began to sleep through the night , and became much less active — for the first time he could sit down and watch a television programme through to the end . |
| 22 | Then he began to hack at the door-frame . |
| 23 | Taking a ballpoint pen from his shirt pocket , he began to sketch on the paper table-cover . |
| 24 | He had been Senior British Officer in command of the prisoners in the orphanage and he had received considerable help from the people of Fontanellato ; eventually he had been helped to reach Switzerland , Now , suddenly , a few months before the date we had settled on for our marriage , he began to worry about the idea of one of his officers ( who made no claims to any sort of upper-class lineage ) marrying the daughter of a village schoolmaster . |
| 25 | And he began to worry about the body in the garden . |
| 26 | And then his thoughts wandered again and he began to worry about the speed with which the vegetation was growing around the ramparts . |
| 27 | Then he began to tumble in the air and reality took over . |
| 28 | Although Gordonstoun and Australia had an effect on his character , it was at Cambridge that he began to develop into the man he now is . |
| 29 | There was a sudden bang as he crashed against the Lift , and a scraping sensation as he began to roll along the surface . |
| 30 | He began to fiddle with the hat , made to put it on and then changed his mind . |