Example sentences of "they started [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1966 , police had to evict anti-war demonstrators from the Berkeley campus , and , as student leaders called for a campus strike , they started singing the old student favourite ‘ Solidarity Forever ’ . |
| 2 | How long before they started harvesting the MID 's with Sweeper squads ? |
| 3 | Jobson said : ‘ If they started supporting the team we might win a few games . ’ |
| 4 | Last week they started breaking the wild three year olds and goodness , Raimundo and the grooms adored it , treating it like some macho game . |
| 5 | The old lady died and within weeks they 'd decided to get married ; they started furnishing the rooms over the shop and all was set for a wedding . ’ |
| 6 | Their mother and father have told them that it is about time they started helping a bit more at home . |
| 7 | In fact 12% developed it at puberty , 17% during pregnancy , 19% when they started taking the birth pill and 27% , at the onset of the menopause . |
| 8 | And then she came back er , just before lunchtime I think and then they tried to , they sat Kirsty and and Claire down , and they told them to make up and talk to each other and in the end they started having a fight ! |
| 9 | You know , they told me , and the they were on , and they were like they really expected them to just make up and they started having a fight ! |
| 10 | When a stuffed owl was presented to experienced blackbirds living in aviaries , they started mobbing the mounted bird . |
| 11 | That was during the war time , that was about nineteen forty one I should say , when they started doing the concrete roads . |
| 12 | And immediately they started raising the prices of the lunch clubs . |
| 13 | They started coming every week . |
| 14 | After the ‘ Talk to Your Daughter ’ album came out , people started getting interested and so they started making the guitar again and people started buying it ! ’ |
| 15 | ‘ When they started stripping the Duchess of Hamilton they started to find so many things that they virtually wished they had never started ! |
| 16 | The people for whom the message was phrased in this way might have recognised the irony — in a fertile country , they wanted to get a little bit more , so they started worshipping a fertility god , Baal ! |