Example sentences of "it at the start " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had at times , almost as if it were a comfort , at least something accustomed , run through the fruitless litany of remorse : I ought not to have tolerated his infidelities , I ought to have stopped it at the start , I have colluded with his depravity , it is all my fault . |
| 2 | It is Denethor 's insistence on defending this ( III , 89 ) that nearly kills Faramir , and all it does in practice is to obstruct the arrival of the Rohirrim ( III , 111 ) by which time it is already a ‘ ruin' , for all the ‘ labour ’ wasted on it at the start . |
| 3 | This may seem the predictable conclusion to a scenario involving , as unions and Opposition politicians indeed presented it at the start , the injection of a ‘ private sector hatchet man ’ at the top of a highly sensitive public sector organisation . |
| 4 | I am sure that the House will start to fill rapidly as I address it at the start of the second day of debate on the Bill . |
| 5 | They nearly blew it at the start of the second half too as Brighton closed in for the kill . |