Example sentences of "he begin [to-vb] the " 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 to hit the table with his hand . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He began to open the car door , but then stopped . |
| 6 | Volunteer Eileen said : ‘ For half a second I thought it was a hoax but as he began to name the four streets I took him seriously . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The he began to press the twigs against the branch , groaning loudly and jabbering incantations . |
| 9 | With the rock still grasped firmly in his left hand , he began to negotiate the glowing gap . |
| 10 | He began to unwrap the package which Jotan had taken from the dwarf . |
| 11 | Thus he began to erode the Turkish feudal system . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He began to sort the feathers again . |
| 14 | In his Sacrae cantiones of 1573 Joachim a Burck ( 1646–1610 ) had employed chromaticism and the other devices of musica reservata to underline the sense of the Biblical texts , but when he began to set the very personal religious verse of Ludwig Helmbold — Latin odes and German Liedlein — the relationship between text and music became much closer , even madrigalian , and he himself claimed he had provided the 40 deutsche christl . |
| 15 | Then he began to shift the first screen and leaned it against an adjoining stretch of wall . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He began to attend the Independent ( Congregational ) Meeting House at Hackleton with Warr . |
| 19 | Slowly he began to stroke the comb through the silken strands . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Every time he began to move the driver jerked the car a little further towards him . |
| 22 | He began to move the university ( now the Freie Universität ) from the city centre to Dahlem . |
| 23 | In his despair , he began to see the truth about himself . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Around him he began to see the unfolding beauty of early summer in his homeland and it held him still with wonder and made him forget the passing of the days . |
| 26 | As he began to take the cork out of a second bottle of wine , she said , ‘ Look … ’ |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | They sure looked smart , he thought , and from that moment he began to cultivate the straight , dignified bearing which was to be his hallmark in later life ; only occasionally did he forget and relapse into his old North American droop . |
| 29 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 30 | He began to close the door . |