1 The people round began to gape.
2 He threw himself into a chair and began to think.
3 Basil Hallward leaped to his feet and began to applaud.
4 They got restless, and began to talk loudly and to whistle.
5 The band, such as it was, struck up a few bars of music, and the dance began.
6 As he left the room, Lord Henry's heavy eyelids drooped, and he began to think.
7 Then it began to scramble all over the oval stellated globe of the tiny blossoms.
8 I began to wonder what on earth I should do when I caught sight of the play-bill.
9 He held the door open for them, and they passed out into the hall and began the ascent.
10 "When America was discovered," said the Radical member--and he began to give some wearisome facts.
11 He thanked him, wondered why he refused to accept any money for them, and began to eat them listlessly.
12 Two green-and-white butterflies fluttered past them, and in the pear-tree at the corner of the garden a thrush began to sing.
13 The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.
14 A grasshopper began to chirrup by the wall, and like a blue thread a long thin dragon-fly floated past on its brown gauze wings.
15 He began to wonder whether we could ever make psychology so absolute a science that each little spring of life would be revealed to us.
16 And Lord Henry struck a light on a dainty silver case and began to smoke a cigarette with a self-conscious and satisfied air, as if he had summed up the world in a phrase.
17 There was a dreadful orchestra, presided over by a young Hebrew who sat at a cracked piano, that nearly drove me away, but at last the drop-scene was drawn up and the play began.
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