Example sentences of "[adv] start at [art] " in BNC.
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1 | You 'd better start at the beginning . ’ |
2 | I 'd better start at the beginning , and it 's a long story . ’ |
3 | ‘ I better start at the beginning for lack of anywhere else , ’ Marek continued . |
4 | ‘ Had n't you better start at the beginning , sir ? |
5 | What characterises these speaker-initiated insertion sequences , then , is that the London English part of the speaker 's turn is a sequence embedded in the turn but not part of the mainstream ; it does not necessarily start at a syntactic clause completion point ( for example ( 8 ) , where it begins after a subject pronoun ) and its purpose is to elicit information , or check on information to make it possible for the speaker to complete the current turn ( Sebba and Wootton 1984 : 4 ) . |
6 | Oh yes yes oh well yes for a rum and coffee yeah , and I 'm afraid it was very acceptable on a winter 's morning , but erm now we come , we 've come on that side of Road , we 'll now start at the top of Road again and come along as far as er what I call Street I believe it 's now where St Michael 's church is , and you come to Sammy the butchers . |
7 | ‘ We may as well start at the top , then . ’ |