Example sentences of "[noun prp] started [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ngo Van Loc started to slow the car , but to the surprise of the Americans Jacques Devraux motioned him to keep driving . |
| 2 | Ellen started to unwrap the food : a mound of ricotta , slices of cooked ham , olives in oil , half a loaf of bread . |
| 3 | Molly started to rebuild the fire . |
| 4 | In desperation , Ari started marking the days off on a chart , just so she could see the rime they had left on the road diminishing . |
| 5 | His accomplished team started them off but with-drew support when O'Rourke started promot-ing the soap . |
| 6 | He signalled to Yuan , and with the change in gravity he was at the entrance with his belt slung over one shoulder before Alexei started to cross the floor . |
| 7 | Alexander started to examine the effects that shortening and lengthening of his body had on his voice . |
| 8 | But the thing that fascinated me last night was the statistic about Gillette do you know they said when Gillette started When Gillette started doing the erm Gillette Cup , it cost them five thousand a year . |
| 9 | Only recently has British Telecom started modernising the equipment , introducing colour terminals for instance . |
| 10 | He climbed into the bucket and Endill started to turn the handle . |
| 11 | Sixty one per cent are over 45 , compared with 56 per cent in 1986 , when proprietor Conrad Black started to modernise the image . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a strength being part of an international group and I am glad Courtaulds started to run the activity on a European basis so early . |
| 13 | Burun started to clean the cuts on Suragai 's hands . |
| 14 | Brooke-Rose started writing the novel in 1964 , but she became blocked and eventually put it aside in order to write Such . |
| 15 | Oliver started gripping the flowers hard enough to snap their stems . |
| 16 | Shelley started sorting the patients ' cards into order , and wonderered why she felt a little hurt at the thought of Victoria coming and going at the Casa Madrid . |
| 17 | Sam started wielding the broom enthusiastically . |
| 18 | Defries started to close the airlock . |
| 19 | Outside Sigarup and Kalchu started to unpack the lukals , slitting open the stitching at the top with a knife and tipping out the maize to dry in the sun before they stored it away in wooden chests and cylindrical clay grain vats . |
| 20 | Just then Biff started clanging the iron triangle to summon them together . |
| 21 | Hosanna started to smell the debris where she had put it on the marble top of the kitchen dresser and she shouted at him so that he darted out into the yard . |
| 22 | Mr Chaudhry started to dress the Bosnian refugee . |
| 23 | R. A. Fisher started to solve the problem in 1930 with the straightforward observation that each of us gets about one-half of our genes from our mother and the other half from our father . |
| 24 | So Trumbull started moving the camera in and out , and stopped the lens down to a tiny aperture for maximum depth of field ( he had already been experimenting with zoom lenses for the cockpit readouts in other sequences ) . |
| 25 | Derek started watching the six o'clock news on television that evening in a distracted mood , only for his attention to be seized by mention of the name Abberley during the preamble to film of a press conference held earlier in the day at Newbury Police Station . |
| 26 | When she went to Yelton , Timothy started to visit the Community , furnishing it with funds for its work . |
| 27 | So at the beginning of 1990 , Mike Rex — on secondment from AECI — and chemical engineering student Joe Masih started charting the two — hourly process operator analyses and found a lot of variation . |
| 28 | Albert started reading The Weekly Advertiser for cheap furnished rooms . |
| 29 | Gina started scanning the documents , then after a few seconds she gasped , |
| 30 | When she was 15 Mandy started taking the pill . |