Example sentences of "he begin [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1862 he began drilling for salt on Teeside for Leblanc alkali manufacture on Tyneside , but this enterprise hastened the decline of Tyneside industry as the rival Solvay process expanded on the Tees . |
| 2 | He began to reach for the handle with a gloved hand and then pulled nervously back , remembering what had happened to Frye . |
| 3 | Leaning back , he began to reach for the packet of cigars , then made a wry face and changed his mind . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He began writing for Justice , the weekly paper of the SDF , which first appeared in January 1884 , and two years later he took over the editor 's position from H. M. Hyndman [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | He had written for the ‘ Manchester Guardian ’ on the subject during the seasons of 1933/4/5 , then in 1937 he began writing for the ‘ Glasgow Herald ’ — not reporting on county cricket as he had for the ‘ Guardian ’ but instead turning his impeccable knowledge of the game to the study of the nature of the game itself . |
| 7 | He began to plead for mercy . |
| 8 | He began digging for the pipe , which was expected to be about half a metre down . |
| 9 | So confident was Sturt that a bountiful Garden of Eden existed somewhere in central Australia that in January 1843 he began to sue for funds for an expedition into the interior . |
| 10 | He began to ask for orange juice when offered drinks , hoping for a little nourishment before he passed out . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | On his long , solitary walks in Italy , Switzerland and Paris , he began to long for Sarah . |
| 13 | He began working for a master 's degree , studying the language of medieval petitions in the Public Record Office . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Neither the Bodleian nor the British Museum , however , would offer him a place , and in 1889 he began to read for the bar . |
| 16 | He began to look for a safe stance for the night … |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He began to look for a job . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | De Gaulle 's interest in this reform picked up noticeably in the spring of 1962 , as he began to look for ways of heading off parliamentary moves to reduce his role . |
| 21 | A ‘ Coronation ’ tram , No 1174 , swayed into view and he began to run for the stop . |
| 22 | He begins to long for the happy carefree days when he was single . |