Sentence examples similar to had really commenced from inspiring English sources

(He may have distributed much of his collection to other museums). Morde vowed that he would return soon "to commence excavation". But, in 1954, he committed suicide, without revealing where the city was, if indeed he had really found it.

That has really surprised me.

I have really bad wheels.

NATO, against Russia's wishes, had just commenced bombing Belgrade.

By January 1998, however, work still had not commenced.

No sooner had I commenced than all of them, poor overworked fellows, sleepwalked out of earshot.

In 1995, today's dominant trends had already commenced.

The Allied bombing of Afghanistan had commenced the night before.

A swing to the political left had commenced.

Ferry service to Fire Island had commenced two decades earlier.

The projects had commenced without environmental assessments or ministry approval.