John Carp did begyn to make furnaces over the gate, and he used of my rownd bricks, and for the yern pot was contented now to use the lesser bricks, 60 to make a furnace.
Mr. Vander Laen promised on 26 day to begynhis work of fixing lunam.
I reke not thowe he fellyd not tyll thys wynter; but iff he woll nedes begyn thys Maye, therffor I wryght yow thus hastely entrete hym, iff ye can, that he felle not tyll wynter.
Soft, Diccon, be not to hasty yet, By the masse, for ich begyn to sweat!
The-quhethir he yharnyt to begyn 260 To bryng his purpos till ending; For gude help is in begynnyng.
By my trouth, quod the mayster, that is well; therfore I wyll begyn to make a ryme.
All be it yet I haue power to make a woman to speke, but and if a woman begynones to speke, I, nor all the deuyls in hell that haue the more power, be nat able to make a woman to be styll, nor to cause her to leaue her spekynge.
No, by my trouthe, quod he, I can not; but yf ye wyllbegyn to ryme, I wyll folow as well as I can.
To hem do by Colus wheron they co{m}pleined ¶ And to begyn Dyana was constreyned.
Tyl he haue made full sethe & recompence ¶ For hurt of my name thrugh his grete offe{n}ce ¶ Fyrst to begyn this Colus hath ofte.
Bot quhat avalys begyn a strang melle, Syne ȝeld the to thy fa, but ony quhy, Or cowartly to tak the bak and fle?
Per ordour now thar risis apon hand Fer largear materis forto treit and write; A grettar warkbegyn we to endyte.
Lo quhou gret cure, quhat travell, pane, and dowt, Was tobegyn the worthy Romanys blude!
Venus blude and kyn, And king Latynus, now lat thame begyn Sik wedlok to contract and spousale feste.
Hit is wonder that I last, sich an old dote, 265 All dold, To begyn sich a wark!
Or els we may begyn at the greatenes of the mater / or daunger of the thyng that we speke of / as in the fyfte boke of Liuius.
And on this maner dothe Aristides begyn his oracion made to the praise of Rome.
We may also begyn at the nature of the tyme that we speke in / or at the nature of the place / or at any other circumstaunce or thynge incident.
Or els we begyn at our owne p[er]- sone / or at the prayse of the Iuge.
Alsoe it was ordayned to begyn to unlade our shipps on Munday, Mr. Cockram to be at Hollandes house to take acco.
And I sent Mr. Osterwick to Gonrok Dono with a coppie of my processe I ment to begyn with Capt.
AT this same Assemblie was the Lord James appoynted to go to France to the Quene oure Soverane;[308] and a Parliament was appointed to begyn the twenty of Maij nixt following; for at that tyme was the returne of the said Lord James looked for.
As befoir we have heard, the Parliament [was] concludit to begyn the xx.
For we do see the people begyn alreddie to wax weary be reasoun of the frequent repetitioun of those promisses.
And thairfoir my counsall is, that ye begyn at God, with whom yf ye will enter in perfyte reconciliatioun, I doubt not but he shall bow the heartis of men to forget all offenses.
I wald we should not jest in so grave a mater; nether wold I that ye should begyn to illud the trewth with sophistrie; and yf ye do, I will defend me the best that I can.
Lett us begyn at our selves, who longast hes continewed in this battell.
Butt I man have somewhat of everie ane of yow to begyn my pack agane, which a preast and my wyif, a preastis hoore, hes spentt.
Yea, we shall begyn that same warre whiche God commanded Israell to execut aganis the Cananites; that is, contract of peace shall never be maid, till ye desist from your oppin idolatrie and crewell persecutioun of Godis childrein.
Thei desyre but that ye begyn the bargane at us; and when it begynnis at us, God knawis the end thairof, and wha sall byd the nixt putt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "begyn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
