How to use "began" in a sentence

The men on the ship began to run and shout.

The mysterious ship began to sink before Ned finished his sentence.

They put the bag down and began digging

Captain Nemo swam away from the rocks, with his knife in his hand, and began fighting with the animal

The Nautilus suddenly began to turn round in circles

The men below began to shout.

She sat down and began to cry again

She began to think about her friends

She began to walk through the wood

She began to sing to it

Slowly, the Cheshire Cat's smile vanished too, and Alice began to walk again

'I don't think-' Alice began.

She began to feel afraid

'I'm a good man, Sir...' the unhappy Mad Hatter began

'I'm not more than a kilometer high - Alice began.

I began to play football with the high school team, and Coach Fellers helped me

I began to play.

It was late afternoon when I began to walk back to my room

Then Jenny laughed and began to sing with my harmonica, and then everybody was saying 'Wonderful!' to me.

But then things began to go wrong again

Suddenly, the boiler began to shake and make noises - and then it blew up!

Then the ground began to blow up all round us!

We began to move back to the hill, but Doyle suddenly saw more enemy soldiers who were going towards our men! We waited until they got to the top, then Bones began shooting with the machine gun

After that, he began to shake my hand.

Students began to come in, most of them wearing dirty jeans

Then they began to play - and they were loud

The group started playing again and Jenny began to sing.

I could hear the music that was playing inside and, after a minute or two, I began playing with it

Then I began to sing with The Broken Eggs.'

That afternoon, Jenny took me to meet the other people in the group, and that night I began playing my harmonica with them at the Hodaddy Club

She went and sat under a tree on the grass, and began eating an apple

So after I finished my cup of coffee, I took out my harmonica and began to play

The three of us began to talk.

We began to talk about other things.

Mr Beckwith's insurance policy began in March

Miss Niner began to tell me about her uncle

He went into the corridor and began to shout loudly.

'You're a man of the world, Mr Sampson,' he began

The glass cut his forehead and blood began to flow down his face

Some of them began singing Russian songs and dancing.

When a man called Brennan began to shout about the murders in a pub in Camberwell, the customers ran out into the street and Brennan was soon arrested

Calm began to return only after a few weeks.

It began 'Dear Boss' and there was a postscript which included the sentence 'What a pretty necklace I gave her'

On October 13th the police began to search every house in a certain radius of the crimes

Soon, however, he began to relax, and looked around the room

' the sergeant in charge of the group began.

The courtroom filled with laughter and Champmathieu began to laugh himself, which did him no good at all.

Fantine smiled, and began to talk dreamily about her future life with her daughter, and how happy they would be together

Madeleine said, despite his efforts to speak quietly, began to tremble.

Finding the stream, she bent forward and began to till her bucket

She turned her back on the room and began to play with it, hoping that no one could see what she was doing

Mme Thenardier rushed across the room towards Cosette who, afraid that she would be punished, put the doll gently on the floor and began to cry.

Valjean's heart almost stopped beating and he began to sweat.

He gripped Cosette's hand and began to walk more quickly

They did not come for a whole week, and Marius began to feel depressed

The daughter, taking her father's words seriously, began to scream with fear

He began to move towards M

Leblanc's right hand and, producing a pen and paper, began:

Cosette sat down and began to read, enjoying the music of the language and the beauty of the handwriting

'Mother!' Cosette murmured, and began to fall.

Then, at last, they began to speak

Gillenormand's face, and the servant began to worry that his master was ill

Marius, who had thrown away his guns and was now without a weapon, began to move towards a barrel of gunpowder he had seen near the door of the wine shop

He began to feel happier as he thought about the journey they would soon be making

He began to shake and he fell back into an armchair, feeling angry and betrayed

As other guns began firing at the smaller barricade, the rebels fought back bravely, but they were running out of bullets

Javert buttoned his coat, straightened his shoulders and, with a puzzled look on his face, began to walk off in the direction of the market

There was no way out and, as all hope of escape left him, he began to think of Cosette.

When he refused to kiss her cheek, she began to feel unhappy, afraid that she had done something to offend him

As 'Monsieur Jean', he gradually became a different person to her, and she began not to depend on him for her happiness.

Over the next few days, his visits began to be interrupted by servants calling Cosette to dinner

But when he didn't come to breakfast this morning, we began to worry." Smith looks at the clock

There was one from Niki, but nothing from Cham, so she began a message to him

She began watching an ultranet story-stream

She arrived just as the rain began to pour, and lightning flashed across the sky

Then she and Cham both began talking at once.

His voice was full of enthusiasm, and Sala began to feel uneasy

She grew braver, and began to swim more rapidly toward the beach.

When the water became shallower, the dolphins began to swim lazily in circles.

She began to swim again, next to Cham

He held on to a dolphin's tail and it began to play with him, pulling him along much faster than he could swim

"Help! I'm -" she began.

With the story-stream still playing, her eyes slowly began to shut.

She was asleep when her ultranet began to beep

Sala began to realize why this news was so awful

"It's you -" began Sala.

With just two days to go before Pod Life began, Sala woke up feeling depressed

She had been there for about thirty minutes when a woman began running on the machine next to her

Sala jumped, and began to turn her head.

"Maybe on the ultranet..." began Cham

She looked exhausted at first; but the light came back into her eyes as Sala began to talk about her meeting with Wena.

Cham went on and on, and Sala began to wonder when he would stop talking

Sala began to wonder if she'd offended him

She took a deep breath and began to make her way down the stairway.

She dived onto it just as the rain began to pour, and started walking quickly.

Technicians appeared at the door and everyone began to stand up.

Sala's tears began to flow

There was a low mechanical noise as the walls of the pod began to shut softly around her.

I began to apologize.

Then, at last, he began to talk about Manderley

'I'm not sure,' I began

The tears began to run down my cheeks

The woman began to speak in a cold, lifeless voice

I began to feel that Manderley really was my home.

Suddenly the telephone on the desk began to ring

'Dear Mrs Van Hopper,' I began

'I must go downstairs.' As I began to walk towards the stairs, Mrs Danvers followed me.

The men began to talk together and I had to answer Beatrice's questions.

As we reached the car, the sun went behind a cloud and a little rain began to fall

He began talking about Frank Crawley

A bird began to sing, a high, clear sound

Other birds began to sing too

'He's gone over this way.' I began to climb up the wet rocks.

I began climbing over the rocks towards Jasper

I began to understand why some people hated the low, angry voice of the sea

The house seemed very quiet as I began to walk up the stairs

I felt afraid and my legs began to tremble

I began to feel that Mrs Danvers was watching me

I began to get worried about my costume

Slowly, the great house began to change

Mrs Danvers began to cry noisily, with her mouth open and her eyes dry.

I began to walk along the path through the woods

As I went up the path, a strange fear began to fill my heart.

My heart began to beat fast

Then Maxim took me in his arms and began to kiss me

Then she began to grow careless

Then Maxim began to speak again.

At that moment, the telephone in the next room began to ring.

The telephone began to ring again

As I began to arrange the flowers, there was a knock at the door.

I went out on to the terrace and began to walk up and down.

I got out of the car and began walking up and down.

A few drops of rain began to fall.

Just before seven, the rain began to fall heavily

Favell began to laugh, a high stupid laugh, as he twisted the note round and round in his fingers.

He began to cry.

'Now, listen, Danny,' Favell began to shout, but Mrs Danvers took no notice.

We began to kiss each other, like guilty lovers who had never kissed before.

I began to pack a few things

It was then that I began to feel tired

'Danny? Why did...?' Favell began

Maxim began to drive faster, much faster.

Her heart knotted in her chest, and her lower lip began to quiver again, and she put her head down on the table

They began as lovers, sharing every detail of their daily lives - triumphs and failures, joys and frustrations - but by the time the divorce was final, they were strangers

She began her career as a dancer - not a showgirl but an actual dancer - in the Lido de Paris, a gigantic stage show at the Stardust Hotel

Five years ago, however, on her twenty-eighth birthday, she began to realize that she had, if she was lucky, ten years left as a show dancer, and she decided to establish herself in the business in another capacity, to avoid being washed up at thirty-eight

Then the new dreams began, and they were far worse than the dream that she'd had immediately after Danny had been killed.

Waitresses, waiters, and captains rushed back and forth to fill the drink orders before the show began

Vivienne began work in the kitchen

No one was near them, yet suddenly two photos began to rattle violently against the wall, and then both flew off their mountings and clattered to the floor behind the beige, brushed-corduroy sofa.

The electronic squeal began to warble faster, but it was no quieter, no less bone penetrating than it had been.

The radio's digital display began to change, the orange numbers escalating across the frequency band, sweeping through one station after another

The indicator reached the end of the bandwidth, and the digital display began to sequence backward.

The digital display began to sequence up the band once more, and scraps of music blasted from the speakers.

Overhead, the three model airplanes began to move

The model planes began to bounce violently up and down on the ends of their lines.

After a moment the other two models ceased their erratic dancing and began to spin around and around, like the first plane, as if they were actually flying, and there was no mistaking this deliberate movement for the random effects of a draft.

The sliding closet doors began to move on their runners, and Vivienne Neddler had the feeling that some awful thing was going to come out of the dark space, its eyes as red as blood and its razor-sharp teeth gnashing

The springs began to sing as if metal fingers were strumming them.

Helen Mainway chattered excitedly about the spectacular special effects, and Elliot Stryker had an endless supply of compliments as well as some astute observations about the technical aspects of the production, and Charlie Mainway poured a third bottle of Dom PS 233; rignon, and the house lights came up, and the audience reluctantly began to leave, and Tina hardly had a chance to sip her champagne because of all the people who stopped by the table to congratulate her.

She threw her arms around him and, much to her surprise began to cry with happiness

Shortly before midnight, Danny's room began to grow cold

On the doorknob, on the radio casing, and on other metal objects, moisture began to condense out of the air

Inside the closet, shirts and jeans began to swing wildly on the pole from which they hung, and some clothes fell to the floor.

The voice faded after a minute, but the bed began to bang up and down.

Other things began to move too

Then a man dressed entirely in black from head to foot, his face hidden by shadows, appeared at the far side of the pit and began to shovel dirt into it

Though Danny's screams were increasingly muffled, they were even more urgent than before, because the dirt began to cover his face and pour into his mouth

"Michael-" she began, intending to tell him that she was going to stage another show within the next year, that she didn't want to be represented by only one production at a time, and that she even had distant designs on New York and Broadway, where the return of Busby Berkeley - style musicals might be greeted with cheers.

The paper rattled as her hands began to shake.

The names and addresses of VIP customers who had missed the opening of Magyck! - Along with the wedding anniversaries of those who were married - began to appear on the screen, scrolling upward

Simultaneously the laser printer began to churn out the same data.

With a sharp, loud, electronic snap that startled Tina, the computer abruptly began to churn out additional data, although she hadn't requested any

Suddenly, as the screen began to fill with the same seven-line message that had just been wiped from it, Tina had enough

Immediately, rapidly, the room began to grow warmer.

She got up and began to pace, taking another swallow of cognac.

They wanted to have a little fun during the evening that lay ahead, and now they began putting themselves in the mood for it.

And then he began planting small kisses on her forehead, on her eyes, on her cheeks, her nose, the corners of her mouth, her chin

He began the age-old rhythm of love

However, by the time they reached Charleston Boulevard - via Maryland Parkway, Sahara Avenue, and Las Vegas Boulevard - they began to relax

The land began to rise toward Mount Charleston where, less than an hour away, pine forests were mantled with snow

Tina's mouth began to water as soon as she stepped through the door.

The jukebox began to play a mournful Alan Jackson song.

Even after all this time, when she thought about Danny's last moments on earth - the terror he must have known, the excruciating pain he must have endured, even if it was of brief duration - she began to choke with sorrow and pity

He smiled and asked Elliot if their dinner had been satisfactory, and Elliot said it had been fine, and the old man began to make change with slow, arthritic fingers.

As Elliot turned away from the machine, the eerily meaningful repetition began again:

He began CPR, but then relented

The digital station indicator began to sweep across the frequencies

Danny began calling again, and she continued down the dusky tunnel toward him

Tina lowered her gaze from the empty air to the map, and her hand began to move

As Tina's hand moved slowly over the paper, the corners of the map began to curl and uncurl again.

The chandelier began to swing in a lazy circle, and the dangling crystals cast prismatic patterns of light on the walls.

Snow began to fall more heavily - yet ahead of them, not a single flake lay in their way

The road began to climb in earnest, hugging the slopes

As they ascended into the night, snow began to fall hard and fast in sheets of fine, dry flakes.

She began to wonder exactly what sort of little boy they were going to find at the top of the mountain.

The intersecting hall began directly in front of them, across from the guardroom, and bored at least four hundred feet into the mountain; a long row of doors waited on each side of it, and other corridors opened off it as well.

Just as she was beginning to despair, the air began to turn cold again

We immediately began working with him, trying to engineer an exact duplicate of the virus

Then we began to study the bug, searching for a handle on it that the Chinese had overlooked."

Dombey began to pace as he talked

In each subsequent meeting, one or the other would show up to take story notes on their latest draft, while the missing partner would always have been waylaid by an emergency of one kind or another: a broken washing machine and a flooded laundry room, the sudden-onset illness of a cat with symptoms suggesting (to me) demonic possession, the death of a beloved aunt, the death of a beloved uncle, the death of a beloved neighbor (I began to worry that merely by associating with these women, decades would be shorn from my life span), migraine headaches, and an unfortunate encounter with an angry Big Foot in a long line at the DMV

I began to laugh but stopped when I saw my uncle's white face.

I turned the page and began to read.

That night, as I began to take Andre's dinner down to him, I stopped by the telephone

'Protheroe.' He began to laugh

I've got to think.' And he began to run down the road.

'Dear Clement, it began 'Sorry, I cannot wait any longer, but I must...' Here the writing ended.

'I'd just like to tell...' I began.

'If you had seen his face last night...' I began.

Mrs Price Ridley began talking again

'Well, this person began by saying, "You are a very unpleasant old woman who tells lies!" Me, Colonel Melchett! "And now the police are after you."'

Immediately he began to explain why it was so interesting.

He soon began to explain his disagreement with Colonel Protheroe.

We began to run, and inside we bumped into a very good-looking young man

I began to walk back to the village and our local chemist, Mr Cherabim, joined me

It began, 'My dear Clement-'

And I began to think of other people who might want Colonel Protheroe dead.'

Lawrence Redding deserves the heaviest punishment possible.' So he began to arrange the trap with Melchett

It must be, if scientific thinking is correct, older than our world, and life on its surface began a long time before this Earth cooled down

I half-turned, still keeping my eyes on the cylinder, from which other tentacles were now coming out, and began pushing my way back from the side of the pit

This gave people confidence and as darkness fell, a slow, uncertain movement on the common began

With an effort I turned and began an unsteady run through the grass.

When I saw how white her face was, I began to comfort her and myself by repeating all that Ogilvy had told me about the impossibility of Martians capturing the Earth.

Three went through the open doors of the Oriental College and two began running from house to house

I began to ask myself what they could be

Then suddenly he sat down at the table, put his head on his arms and began to cry like a little boy

I began to see his face, blackened and exhausted, as no doubt mine was too.

'No, sir.' And he began to describe the Heat-Ray.

Then came the sound of a gun and, almost immediately, other guns across the river, unseen because of the trees, began to fire

The air was full of deafening and confusing noises: the loud sounds of the Martians, the crash of falling houses, the flash of fire as trees and fences began to burn

Soon after that the police arrived and began to move the crowd out of the station, and my brother went out into the street again.

Then he crossed the room and began to dress, running with each piece of clothing to the window in order to miss nothing of the growing excitement

As my brother began to realize how serious the situation was, he returned quickly to his room, put all the money he had - about ten pounds - into his pockets and went out again into the streets.

The fallen Martian crawled slowly out of its machine and began to repair its leg

A dozen signal lights went on as soon as they began to move, warning the waiting guns around Esher

When he saw them, the curate made a frightened noise and began running, but I knew it was no good running from a Martian and I crawled into some bushes by the side of the road

It was heavy, this smoke, so when it began to sink down it behaved like a liquid, running down hills and into the valleys

Then they began to look for a chance of getting to the right side of the road

That day the refugees began to realize how much they needed food

As they grew hungry, they began to steal

A flame rose up through the steam and then the Martian began to fall over

He did not answer, but as soon as I began eating I heard him crawling towards me.

At a later date we began to feel less in danger of being seen because the sunlight outside was very bright, but at first anything approaching the house drove us back into the hall in fear

I began to think that, although our position was terrible, there was no reason yet to give up hope

The rest of the time he just talked to himself, and I began to realize that he had gone completely mad.

Then he slept for some time and began again with even more strength, so loudly that I had to try to stop him.

In the road that runs from the top of Putney Hill to Wimbledon many things had been left behind by the crowds that ran towards London on the Sunday night after the fighting began

For the first time I began to think that there was some distance between his dreams and his powers, because I could dig a hole like this in a day

As we worked I thought about the job, and soon some doubts began to come into my mind

I began to feel that I had failed my wife, and decided to leave this dreamer of great things and to go on into London

I began to feel very happy and I started running along the road.

But there are no germs on Mars, and as soon as the Martians arrived, as soon as they drank and fed, our tiny friends began to destroy them

At the thought, I lifted my hands towards the sky and began thanking God

So when the slow cooling of the sun means that we cannot continue to live on Earth, it may be that life which began here can reach out and continue there.

'My dear Mr Grant Munro...' began Holmes.

After some time, I began reading about another illness

I began reading the book from the letter 'a' to the letter 'z' I had the symptoms of all the diseases in the book, except for one!

We began talking about our illnesses again

We began to get ready, and we remembered that we had packed our toothbrushes

Other people began following Harris, too

We began to prepare supper.

We started smoking our pipes and began to talk.

He, too, began dancing around and barking

Of course, we began talking about other illnesses

'Countess,' I began

Lady Glyde began to shake

Now that she was better, my heart began to beat fast again when she was near me, our hands began to shake when they met.

At the beginning of May, I began watching the Count's house

The Count began to write

In 1788, she began working for a London book publisher, who published her novel Mary: A Fiction (1788) and some of her other books

Malala used the name "Gul Makai" and began writing for the BBC (the United Kingdom's television and radio) about life with the Taliban

On this day in December, the bus began to fill with white people

The second wave, which began in the 1960s, was about women's fight for freedom

The third wave, which began in the 1990s, continues the work of second-wave feminism

In the 1970s, women began to go to colleges and universities to study

On 1st June, Amelia and Fred Noonan left Miami and began their 29,000-mile journey around the world

The USA wanted to be the first country to put women in space, so, in 1960, William began to test women in the USA as astronauts.

She began to play at Long Beach, and she used a racquet she bought with money she got from little jobs.

When she got older, Billie Jean began winning big tennis tournaments, and in 1966, she achieved her dream