Example sentences of "they started [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 2 | They started to talk about the ego , id and superego as if they were physical realities located in the body . |
| 3 | They started to disagree over the clothes Ace insisted on buying her until she was almost overcome with embarrassment . |
| 4 | They started to walk across the grass . |
| 5 | So any feature analyser would have to deal with context so therefore they started to look at the role of context and we 're gon na look at contextual effects later on , probably next week or the week after . |
| 6 | Before they started to work with the video all the teachers were shown the contract which was drawn up by Kate Kennett . |