For years, he had always been planning to paint a work of art, but had never yet begun it.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

Laura was Jewish. Later the Fermis decided to leave Italy, because the Fascist government had begun oppressing Jews.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

She joined a close friend, Zilpah Grant, who had begun another private school, Ipswich Female Seminary.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

House members had already begun a six-week holiday when the Senate approved the measure last week.

VOA: special.2010.08.12

And officials said the study had begun long before the latest debate on health reform.

VOA: special.2009.11.25

Bell had begun experimenting with electricity and sound when he was eighteen years old.

VOA: special.2010.05.14

By the time of her death in nineteen twelve, she had begun a revolution that led to the right of women to do responsible work for society.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

They had begun to leave the Union over the issue of slavery.

VOA: special.2009.07.16

It had begun to harm President Lyndon Johnson's popular and political support.

VOA: special.2009.08.30

Many of them had begun to paint pictures they called "abstract."

VOA: special.2011.03.13

When she entered the theater, the play had already begun.

VOA: special.2009.09.05

Three areas still had overfishing, but corrective measures have begun.

VOA: special.2009.09.08

A serious depression had begun during Grant's second term.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Her career as a successful artist had begun.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

Copernicus had begun a scientific revolution.

VOA: special.2011.06.01

World War One had begun by then.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

It said war had begun.

VOA: special.2009.02.26