Sentence examples for he began rather from inspiring English sources

When I encouraged him to tell me his story in his own way, he began — rather strangely, I thought — by telling me how, a few months before the accident, he had had a sudden "compulsion" to sell his house in Sag Harbor, which he loved and in which he and his family had lived for five years.

Ideally bald, sun-tanned, and clean-shaven, he began rather impressively with that great brown dome of his, tortoise-shell glasses (masking an infantile absence of eyebrows), apish upper lip, thick neck, and strong-man torso in a tight-ish tweed coat, but ended, somewhat disappointingly, in a pair of spindly legs (now flanneled and crossed) and frail-looking, almost feminine feet.

In "Mon Ma Mes" he begins rather than ends with a question-and-answer session ("because that's so often the most interesting part of the evening, and I don't want to do it at the end when I'm tired").

Things began rather unremarkably.

The day began rather quietly.

Jong's response began rather differently.

Like any habit, Orlando's began rather modestly.

It began rather slowly, but is now starting to grip both the Mississippi and its tributaries.

The emancipation of the serfs undoubtedly helped capitalist development, though this began rather slowly.

She began rather shakily by reading out her opening statement and glancing down at her notes.

Boulud is certainly passionate about Calvados, but his is a passion that began rather inauspiciously.