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The phrase "he started coughing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the action of someone beginning to cough, often in a narrative or descriptive context. Example: "During the meeting, he started coughing uncontrollably, drawing everyone's attention."
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He started coughing.
He started coughing, and sent the prospective buyers in alone.
He started coughing, which brought into his dreams the evening's first damning burning drink.
He started coughing soon after the race began, and his coughing fits were so severe that he had to drop out halfway through.
Last year, when Axel Rodriguez was four, he started coughing, a weird cough that sounded like a drum, deep and percussive, and scratchy, as though something inside his chest were trying to claw its way out.
Instantly he started coughing.
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He starts coughing violently, and the credits abruptly roll.] "Rudy" With Notre Dame up 24 3 going into the final kickoff, Coach Devine sighed and waved No. 45 into the game.
A proud Irishman, Farrell must have been biting his fist between takes to get some of this stuff out of his mouth, and looks frankly relieved when he starts coughing blood onto his handkerchief.
He takes a deep breath to calm himself but his lungs rattle and he starts coughing, hacking, a deep smoker's cough.
When she started coughing and sneezing, he invited her back to his apartment, where he brewed tea and offered her dry socks.
The day after that she started coughing up blood.
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