To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

"Have you finished?" "On the contrary, I have not even begun yet."

I started learning Chinese last week.

Food and drink were served in such profusion at the wedding that the bride and groom began to wonder if they should not have invited more guests.

Smiling cheerfully, the two began to walk off into their brilliant future.

We three sisters opened a coffee shop.

On the other hand, there seem to be those among young folk who, while touching on Buddhism, have started to think of it as a vital spiritual support.

I started to think I had behaved foolishly.

When writing a sentence, generally you start with a capital letter and finish with a period (.), an exclamation mark (!), or a question mark (?).

I took the opportunity of retirement to begin studying the tea ceremony.

Quiet! Everybody stay where they are, there will now be a possessions check.

The fireplace, lacking firewood, flames already starting to lose their vigour.

The sun had barely risen at the foot of the mountain when she set out alone up the slope.

In recent years, with a method called VLBI that uses quasar observations, and by GPS we have begun to understand the absolute movement of tectonic plates.

In the patient's body the pulse began beating again.

I hurriedly started searching in earnest.

If you want security in your old age, begin saving now.

A man has free choice to begin love, but not to end it.

Both nations entered into a war.

When the storm was over, we began to make preparations to leave the port.