I stayed with her, in the room (and, possibly, the very bed) where I had commenced my messy existence.
When I commenced my doctorate at Cambridge there was the promise of an unconditional two-year work visa after graduation.
And now I commence my reading of Haruki Murakami, not with "The Wind-Up Bird ChroNorwegian "NorWoodan Wood" but with this little book about running.
Having returned yesterday evening from melancholy business overseas, I commenced my re-engagement with the capital's democratic process by watching a live quarreling contest on the BBC.
"Due to other professional commitments I was not properly able to commence my review of this case until the early part of January this year".
When the yelling commenced, my grandmother rushed to the office, slippers flapping, and stood for a moment in the doorway with her hands on her hips.
With great regret, I returned to London to commence my training with Mr Spenlow to become a proctor, for which privilege my great-aunt had paid one thousand pounds.
"Beyond sexism, there are other very real risks that women in public life must face, and I fear those are much greater than they were when I commenced my own journey into public life".
"I now call on the management of the ASC and the unions to come together like they never have before and prove that the faith I've had in them through the period from 14 October when I commenced my lobbing of the PM that they can be the world class, competitive builder of submarines that they say they can be".
Anderson's stylistic accomplishments should be acknowledged, particularly the way he sustains an almost Homeric voice, as when Octavian resumes his chronicles: "Here commences my record — taken down in the hope that a record of such a struggle as here impends shall not be found uninteresting to the eye of future curiosity and the heart which thrills with compassion and is stirred by high deeds".
