Began
 
 
 
He began to run.
She began crying.
She began to sing.
The boy began to cry.
I began living by myself.
He began to learn English.
She began to like him right away.
It began to rain before I got home.
All of a sudden, she began to laugh.
After he finished supper, he began to read the novel.
I had hardly left home when it began to rain heavily.