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Example sentences for "begun"

Lexicographically close words:
beguile; beguiled; beguilement; beguiles; beguiling; begune; begunne; begyled; begyn; begynne
  1. Full of distress and battling thoughts he had begun to feel icy cold.

  2. A fine drizzle had begun to fall; and the wait went on again as if it would never finish.

  3. Would not a strong government have begun by stifling the scandal, from motives of patriotism, a mere sense of cleanliness even?

  4. As he had anticipated, the hunt had begun at the first glimmer of light.

  5. All faith in it is dying out, and it will soon be forsaken, just as men have begun to forsake the priesthood.

  6. The silk lampshade conflagration had just begun to smoulder in the American household.

  7. They had begun their married life in this locality before it had become a definite district.

  8. Under his eyes little pouches had already begun to form; his mouth was full and sensual; but he still retained an air of liveliness, of carelessness and agility, that might at first sight seem the spontaneity of youth.

  9. His air of disdainful insolence had quite evaporated, but that he considered the action between them only begun was plain, though he spoke not a word.

  10. With the return of his senses he had just begun to realize by what a narrow margin the assassin's bullet had missed destroying his future client and prospects.

  11. I had come forward, they said, begun a big row with Dent and finally shot him.

  12. Duska's stay at Nice had been begun in apathy.

  13. The afternoon light had begun to change with the hint of lengthening shadows.

  14. He had secretly planned his own trip of self-investigation for a time when the equatorial heat had begun to abate its midsummer ferocity.

  15. It was now late in July, and the canvas had begun to take form with a miraculous quality and glow.

  16. Petsjórin had done with life; I had not even begun to live.

  17. Now we have begun a new wine, white Roman muscat.

  18. I had begun studying this historian and thinker in Copenhagen.

  19. Before the soup was brought round I had pulled out a letter I had just received, opened it and begun to read it.

  20. Consequently when I was nineteen, I begun to feel my strength going.

  21. I am sorry Tom considers it necessary to take a vacation when he has only just begun work with your father, Helen.

  22. Other producers have begun to make Wonota and her father offers.

  23. They held long-stemmed pipes with small brass bowls, and had begun to smoke something that had a very pungent and disagreeable odor.

  24. At Bethlehem also he found time to finish Didymi de spiritu sancto liber, a translation begun at Rome at the request of Pope Damasus, to denounce the revival of Gnostic heresies by Jovinianus and Vigilantius (Adv.

  25. A second great canal to the east, begun in 1896, helps to prevent inundations and thus improve the healthiness of the town.

  26. But she was a tributary of China, and China had begun to show some tenacity in protecting the integrity of her buffer states.

  27. Such a state of affairs in the provinces offered a marked contrast to the luxurious indulgence which had now begun to prevail in the capital.

  28. To remarkable financial ability and a lucid, vigorous judgment he added the faculty of placing himself on the crest of any wave which a genuine aura popularis had begun to swell.

  29. Deference is paid to public opinions inasmuch as even a seiyu-kai ministry will not remain in office after its popularity has begun to show signs of waning.

  30. He had begun the study of law at Edinburgh before going to Oxford, and now resumed his studies there.

  31. After many delays an artificial canal, begun in 1858, became available as a substitute for the river; but further works are necessary.

  32. If any action is begun I'll do my best to stop it.

  33. I was waiting for you here, but I've got so much to do that I'd begun to be afraid I wouldn't be able to see you before I go back.

  34. And it so happened that the twelve men got down to the facts before they even started for the jury room, for already the prosecutor had begun his speech and was stripping the case of everything save the truth.

  35. The chiefs begun his raid on Cradlebaugh's, and you're one of the main guys.

  36. For since he had begun his investigations it had come to him that Mrs. Challoner's affairs were in a bad way.

  37. An acquaintance begun in this manner could never be quite formal again.

  38. About a mile from the mainland was the little island of Pharos, on which was a light-house over four hundred feet in height, that was begun by Ptolemy Soter, 300 B.

  39. I have carefully avoided any such declaration as thou hast begun to make, and beseech thee to leave it unspoken.

  40. In the grub stage, as it were, he had begun life as Lemuel Sims, a very grubby grub indeed, becoming Colfax at the same time he became property man for a repertoire troupe playing county-fair weeks in the Middle West.

  41. And I'm prone to believe also that when the Germans stopped fightin' us with guns they begun fightin' us with other weapons almost as dangersome to our peace of mind and future well-bein'.

  42. The dance was begun by a few young boys, and was encreased by men and women, chiefly by the former, until their number amounted from twenty to twenty-six.

  43. On inspecting the seed-wheat, I found the weevil had begun its depredations, on which, I set some of the labourers to winnow and clear it.

  44. She ascended half a dozen steps, then turned, noticing that John had begun to frame an excuse.

  45. The view was magnificent, despite the lowering clouds and the rain, which had begun to fall again.

  46. When they left England Roberts had just begun his welcome advance, and the public anxiety was at its height.

  47. At daybreak the engagement was begun along the whole front.

  48. Lately he has elaborated and improved his system of giving us news and has begun to signal with a flag from the passage of Mr. Cullingworth's house opposite.

  49. The Boers have begun to acknowledge their losses, and the paper have long lists of killed and wounded.

  50. I have only been here forty-eight hours, but the monotony has already begun to show itself.

  51. My subject is Persistency in doing wrong, because you have begun wrong.

  52. It is very galling to have bitter things said of you, often unjust and untrue, only because you have begun to serve God, and lead a better life.

  53. So everybody was happy, and Edward Bok, as a full-fledged reporter, had begun his journalistic career.

  54. He had begun to accustom his readers to writing to his editors upon all conceivable problems.

  55. The magazine was begun in 1883, and had been edited by Mrs. Cyrus H.

  56. Hardly had he begun his activity when Russia mobilized its entire fighting force against Austria-Hungary.

  57. But a few days later the Russian Army was being mobilized, and the mobilization was begun also in France.

  58. The Chancellor had begun in a quiet, subdued tone.

  59. Minister Sazonof declares: I replied to the [British] Ambassador that I have begun conversations with the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador, under conditions which I hope may be favorable.

  60. And all the old miserable business of five years before had begun over again!

  61. Oh, I suppose she'd already begun to fancy you, my friend.

  62. The Hindu people have been kept back from all progress, so that questions arising about human rights and liberty have not begun to be mooted there.

  63. The new womanhood of the infant native Christian community has begun to impress itself upon the land.

  64. Or, more properly, what ground have we to believe that the Holy Spirit cannot carry on to perfection the work thus begun by Him in the heart of such a man?

  65. This glorious work has been nobly begun in India.

  66. Emir Haidar, a relation of the Emir Beshir, has lately begun to compile a history of the Shehabs, which already forms a thick quarto volume.

  67. The bishop is building a dormitory for the boys, in which each of them is to have his separate room; he has also begun to take in pupils from all parts of Syria, whose parents pay for their board and education.

  68. At first it was thought that the Mexicans had begun an attack, but soon it was discovered that the newcomers were Texans.

  69. Before the journey was half over, it had begun to rain, and by the time the ranch home was reached, Dan and his companions were wet to the skin.

  70. There he seems to have held horses at the theater entrances, then to have served as "call-boy" for the players, and by 1592 had begun to patch and revise plays.

  71. Warned by friendly divinities to sail for Italy at once, Æneas has already begun preparations for departure.

  72. Plato, and Aristotle, his pupil, carried on the work begun by Socrates, involving the discussion of the entire experience of Greek life and the criticism of its principles.

  73. Haven't you begun to see your way through the woods?

  74. And Jack, who had begun this with remorse about Marion, ended with this burst of indignation at Marion's father, consequent upon a purely imaginary but very vivid scene, in which the latter was supposed to be extorting money from him.

  75. My dear boy, you have not begun to see even the outside of the peculiarly complicated nature of my present situation.

  76. Alan has only just begun to practise, certainly; but then he has three hundred a year of his own, and his prospects are spoken of as brilliant.


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