Example sentences of "start [v-ing] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Monday morning everybody starts posting data into the database through the application interface and Fred 's posting in data at fifteen percent V A T , everybody else is posting in the data at seventeen and a half percent V A T. So we 're looking at a two and a half percent margin . |
| 2 | But we definitely became aware of it when we started seeing graffiti saying ‘ Clapton Is God ’ in a lot of places — I 'm sure it was n't one guy painting it all over London . ’ |
| 3 | Stuermer 's early listening included Elvis Presley , The Beatles and Buddy Holly , but during his mid-teens he became more involved with jazz guitar : ‘ I started enjoying people like Joe Pass , Howard Roberts and Wes Montgomery , ’ he confided . |
| 4 | We started accumulating works of art and people just assumed I was in the business . |
| 5 | I have had no problem with them — nor did I when I originally starting keeping fish when I kept three that lived to a ripe old age . |
| 6 | With his inherent love of life , he started meeting people socially again , although he abstained from alcohol and cigarettes . |
| 7 | Erm the danger is I think when I first started meeting people , right , you know |
| 8 | When I started meeting people , even previous to the job I was in , right ? er you tend to get too too friendly and not keep it on a on a business basis like . |
| 9 | The first project started loving people in about 1984 . |
| 10 | ‘ Three years ago , pondkeeping became big business , and I started selling goldfish and a few small Koi , ’ said Ken . |
| 11 | She 's got to start paying people more money . |
| 12 | The development of PROFS ( 100% hands-on by 1986 ) certainly contributed to IBM 's ability to start moving people out of ‘ above branch ’ admin and support positions in 1987 . |
| 13 | The Home itself is the first place to start getting people active , and there are all kinds of things which can be done which only need a bit of imagination and common sense rather than expense . |
| 14 | You 're crap , I think I 'm gon na have to start asking people . |
| 15 | They were the ones who started charging people for glasses and surgical appliances , wigs , things that are necessary and actually help in the management and care of patients . |
| 16 | They 're the ones who started charging people . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh you mea because he started biting people ? ' |
| 18 | When you started entering data , most of the pages would be blank and the book would only gradually fill up . |
| 19 | And so they started putting people downstairs everywhere and shoving them in corners that nobody even . |
| 20 | Peter Cook says he started making people laugh in order to disarm bigger boys at school . |
| 21 | So we will have to start preparing people for the day when animals will be widely used . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We were crap for ages , ’ confesses Lucy , ‘ but we hung on in there , gradually improved and started pestering people for support slots . ’ |
| 23 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 24 | Until they sex out and start producing fry of their own we will still be able to make any positive decisions about just how easy or otherwise this species is . |
| 25 | What we tend to do we get bored after the first two thousand and we start writing people letters . |
| 26 | LARNE manager Gary Erwin issued an ultimatum to his players after yesterday 's defeat at Ballymena — ‘ start giving 100pc or you 're out ’ . |
| 27 | I think we should have started asking people a year ago . ’ |
| 28 | As pointed out : ‘ If you start asking staff about their problems , they will expect you to do something about them . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Once you start taking people from poor families you might well be tempted to concentrate just on them , and in the end you wo n't be taking anyone from the streets at all . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd heard they 'd started taking people on . |