Example sentences of "he had start [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | He had to start thinking of himself as a winner again . |
2 | He had started wearing Gina 's wedding ring on the other , wanting to show the nurses he was married . |
3 | After the first few dates when he had kissed and cuddled her and only touched her breasts through her blouse , he had started slipping his hand inside . |
4 | It was his nickname for her ; he had started calling her that when she was small and it had stuck even though she was now a respectable five-feet-seven . |
5 | As he and Hasan and Maisie started out down Wimbledon Park Road , he remembered something the headmaster had said to him , quite soon after he had started teaching the reception class . |
6 | Two years later he had started writing for the Criterion , since he wished to fashion for himself a career as a man of letters . |
7 | Gerry , a member of the Belfast Telegraph staff for 25 years , and previously with the Irish News , underwent a quadruple heart by-pass operation in 1983 but within a week he had started writing his column again from his hospital bed — a column which was part of his life . |
8 | He had started sponsoring the tournament half a dozen years ago , and loved the prestige that ‘ his ’ tournament gave him amongst the other members . |
9 | In May 1927 he had started racing boats . |
10 | I was going to tell my joke to the nice German but he had started talking to someone else . |
11 | He had told her that he had started sleeping with someone else , a ‘ real woman ’ , he had said rashly . |
12 | Sauniere achieved this only after he had started renovating his church at Rennes-le-Chateau ; a fact that did n't escape the attention of the Church or the villagers . |
13 | Meanwhile he had started weaving his web again ; and once more I flew to meet it . |
14 | One archer had really gone back to basics ; he had started making his own bows by means of trial and error and a book from the library . |
15 | He had started moaning again and moving his head from side to side . |
16 | He knew very little of what had happened , had been out of touch since the first report had reached the Embassy in Rome and he had started running . |