Example sentences of "he begin [to-vb] to the " 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 And he began to connect to the nascent counter-culture , visiting Pete Brown 's home in Oppidans Road , Primrose Hill .
3 He began to object to the way the treasure was being shared out , but Bartholomew failed to take him seriously .
4 He began to move to the door , but Anna took his arm .
5 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 .
6 He began to talk to the Colonel with animation I 'd not seen before about hunting deer from helicopters in the South Island .
7 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 .
8 The need for a German theatre , as part of a wider literary and philosophical programme for Germany , arises at the point where Herder sets out to emphasize the Englishness of Shakespeare and the French character of the court of Louis XIV and its drama , and where he begins to point to the absence of a comparable phenomenon in the " Germany " — that is , the conglomeration of German principalities and duchies — of his own day .
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