Example sentences of "he begin [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only when his first movement unleashed the pounding headache bequeathed to him by half a bottle of the college 's specially shipped port did he begin to regret the decision . |
| 2 | This was the closest he would come to that association of the best " minds " sharing certain fundamental ideals which had been a preoccupation of his since the early Twenties ; and indeed it was through such encounters that he began to formulate the ideas which he was to express in The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards The Definition of Culture . |
| 3 | He began thumping the table and insisting the paper install experienced management . |
| 4 | He began to hit the table with his hand . |
| 5 | Once he had begun he did n't feel nervous , he spoke slowly and levelly , and once his part was over he began to enjoy the rest of the proceedings . |
| 6 | Richard Baker explains how crude the technical facilities were when he began reading the news in the 1950's . |
| 7 | He began to open the car door , but then stopped . |
| 8 | He began to realize the possibility that he was being taken for a ride , that he was the stooge in a deadly game in which he was not being allowed to play a part . |
| 9 | The he began to press the twigs against the branch , groaning loudly and jabbering incantations . |
| 10 | He began to unwrap the package which Jotan had taken from the dwarf . |
| 11 | About three kilometres before he reached Fontanellato each morning he began to sound the whistle on the engine to warn us that he would soon be arriving . |
| 12 | He began to sort the feathers again . |
| 13 | In late 1687 he began polling the deputy lieutenants and JPs to see if they would assist him in obtaining the election of a Parliament committed to the repeal of the penal laws and the Tests . |
| 14 | From around the middle of May he began to order the confiscation of the family 's land , although there were no legal grounds for its forfeiture . |
| 15 | From around the middle of May he began to order the confiscation of the family 's land , although there were no legal grounds for its forfeiture . |
| 16 | He began gathering the books together , handling them with exaggerated care and opening them a second time to gaze at Melissa 's signature . |
| 17 | He began to attend the Independent ( Congregational ) Meeting House at Hackleton with Warr . |
| 18 | Slowly he began to stroke the comb through the silken strands . |
| 19 | Here he began to crystallise the wisdom of some of his best poetry , writing and songs ; for it was here that he was reborn , where he truly began to find himself ; where , not least , the music of Greece entered his soul , evoking earlier memories and melodies , combining with them to suggest a new style , a new mystique . |
| 20 | He began to move the university ( now the Freie Universität ) from the city centre to Dahlem . |
| 21 | Every time he began to move the driver jerked the car a little further towards him . |
| 22 | In his despair , he began to see the truth about himself . |
| 23 | He began to see the grounds as a possession , the gardens as something to impress others , the orchard and walled fruit-garden as places that would produce delicious food . |
| 24 | As he began to take the cork out of a second bottle of wine , she said , ‘ Look … ’ |
| 25 | Born Herbert Ernst Karl Frahm on Dec. 18 , 1913 , in Lübeck , the son of an unmarried salesgirl , he began using the name Brandt while engaging in anti-Nazi activities . |
| 26 | ‘ I do not live with you , ’ she snapped , which was , of course , exactly what he 'd wanted her to do , because he began to grin the second the angry disclaimer left her mouth . |
| 27 | With the wealth which he had accumulated he began to finance the formulation of a major innovatory social and economic policy based upon four publications — Coal and Power ( 1924 ) , Land and the Nation ( 1924 ‘ Green Book ’ ) , Britain 's Industrial Future ( 1928 ‘ Yellow Book ’ ) and We Can Conquer Unemployment ( 1929 ‘ Little Yellow Book ’ ) . |
| 28 | He began to close the door . |
| 29 | Cursing again , he began reversing the machine back up the farm track towards the hollow where the helicopter and its pilot waited . |
| 30 | After Anwar Sadat succeeded Nasser as president of Egypt in 1970 , he began to transform the direction of Egyptian policy . |