Example sentences of "[adv] started [to-vb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had already started to look at houses — not any close inspection , just murmured approval as they had been driving , Glyn 's comments warming her . |
| 2 | I suppose that , as I myself had not started to smoke at that period of time , it was worse for me , just like garlic eaters . |
| 3 | We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early . |
| 4 | My nails have recently started to flake at the ends . |
| 5 | Patterson ( 1986 ) has recently started to look at the contribution siblings make to the development of aggressive behaviour . |