Sentence examples for had begun singing from inspiring English sources

He studied piano as a youth and by 1945 had begun singing professionally on the radio.

The Miracles had begun singing in each other's houses, back in Detroit.

She told me that she had begun singing directives about tasks like tooth brushing — "a musical duet which we both can fit into, instead of one person dictating".

She told me that she had begun singing directives about tasks like tooth brushing—"a musical duet which we both can fit into, instead of one person dictating".

Ely had begun singing and playing the guitar in his teens, and at school in Portland, Oregon, met Lynn Easton, who had a band called the Journal Juniors; when their guitarist failed to turn up for a gig, Ely stepped in.

Three minutes into watching his alma mater's new recruiting video, "That's Why I Chose Yale," Christopher Buckley, Class of '75, son of the late William F., Class of '50, paused to pour himself a "stiff one" and dashed off an e-mail to another alumnus: "OMFG!" On the screen, an actor dressed as an admissions officer had begun singing generic collegiate propaganda in bouncy rhyming couplets.

Apparently inspired by doo-woppers the Flamingos and, possibly, the tighter cut of American trousers, Burgess has begun singing in a curious falsetto.

So he has begun singing a song of political "Kumbaya," oozing sympathy for Vice President Al Gore and ardor for embracing Democrats.

She recalled, in a 2014 interview with London Jazz News, that she would barely have begun singing a song in her kitchen at home before the whole family joined in.

In the past few months, the soprano Christine Goerke, a former Handel and Mozart specialist who recently switched over to heavier German repertory, has begun singing the role of Brünnhilde: first, in "Die Walküre" at the Canadian Opera; then in the same work at the Houston Grand Opera, where I heard her in late April.

It annoys even me, though once I've begun singing it I can't stop in the middle, and usually need to repeat it more than once.