Example sentences of "he begin [to-vb] [prep] 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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | With a kind of stolid tranquillity he began to reflect on the day 's work ahead . |
| 5 | He began to reach for the handle with a gloved hand and then pulled nervously back , remembering what had happened to Frye . |
| 6 | Leaning back , he began to reach for the packet of cigars , then made a wry face and changed his mind . |
| 7 | He began to realize from the nature of these sites how the leys could have been constructed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But to detectives who investigated the crimes of Dr Courtney , he began to emerge as the perfect model of a rapist . |
| 10 | She leaned against him comfortably , and he began to wonder about the possibilities in aiming for the wide sleeve of her dress . |
| 11 | And he began to connect to the nascent counter-culture , visiting Pete Brown 's home in Oppidans Road , Primrose Hill . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He began to object to the way the treasure was being shared out , but Bartholomew failed to take him seriously . |
| 14 | He began to move towards the door . |
| 15 | He began to move towards the door . |
| 16 | He began to move towards the end of the bar where Jacko Roberts was drinking alone . |
| 17 | He began to move to the door , but Anna took his arm . |
| 18 | He began to move round the Lad , and Taliesin , who was watching closely , thought that Fael-Inis was creating an invisible circle . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He began to talk to the Colonel with animation I 'd not seen before about hunting deer from helicopters in the South Island . |
| 24 | 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 … |
| 25 | I jogged down the stairs while he began to argue with the builders . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He began to scratch into the soft earth beside the body , until after a time his claws scraped against something smooth and firm . |
| 28 | He began to aim at the other man , who was reloading his Luger , but was stopped by the Doctor 's hand on his shoulder . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Then he began to hack at the door-frame . |