Example sentences of "[pers pn] start off [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started off with a random set of guesses as to how to break the code , and then checked each guess to see how good it was at turning the garbled message into English . |
| 2 | I started off with the three men in the middle of the park Saturday , we changed it round because I think we needed an extra striker at the Wolves , and I did n't think we played that badly . |
| 3 | I start off with a Bloody Mary as this is breakfast in a sense , then cleanse the palate with a bottle of Pils . |
| 4 | that 's something else which you might find , a lot of the time in er literature about interaction with children , you might find that er where parents are asking their children to do something , like if they 're playing a game , you might find some You 'll find that mothers and fathers talk differently to sons and daughters er so you start off with a direct ac action like Put that one there , if they 're playing lego or something , straight prom Put that on there down to er Would n't it be a good idea to put that on there down to Could you put that on there or Let's put it on there . |
| 5 | When you go househunting with the Bristol and West , you start off with a big advantage . |
| 6 | First they are used to show a pause , between parts of a sentence , which makes it for example , when you start off with a subordinate clause , after I 'd cashed my Giro comma I went to the shops and bought some food , or , because of the derailment comma all the trains were running late . |
| 7 | Unless you start off with the right board , though , you 're going to make learning a lot of unnecessarily hard work . |
| 8 | And that means you start off with the atomic bits that make up the lightest gases — the sort you get in stars . |
| 9 | The other thing that 's annoying about that is it then forces you into a completely useless small conversation such as : is that so-and-so ? and they say ‘ yes ’ , and you then feel like , they say ‘ yes ’ , as much as to say ‘ Well , why did n't you know that anyway ’ , and then you feel like saying , ‘ Well why did n't you say so ! ’ and you start off on the wrong foot . |
| 10 | You start off in the dank dungeons and your aim is to work your way to the top . |
| 11 | We started off with a positive number here , and a positive number there , and we divided one positive number by another positive number . |
| 12 | We started off in the old days , just tuning the top string down to D. It 's funny , but we used to do that before we 'd tune the bottom ones down . |
| 13 | So we start off with the first one that you have , this C W , that stands for company worker . |
| 14 | We start off with the front cover sheet . |
| 15 | We start off with the same two words every time . |
| 16 | They regularly assert that the significance of an observed action is symbolic ( rather than functional ) and they start off with a basic assumption that emotions and attitudes are just as much observable characteristics as colours or structures . |
| 17 | It starts off with the prayer-framed sequence of events up to the point in the narrative when Christ is crowned with thorns and condemned to death , but in a more compressed form . |
| 18 | So if I wanted to find out erm Let's do that one with the the N H S , and this time I want to know how much it 's going to be It starts off at a hundred pounds . |
| 19 | At least it started off as a quick explanation , but almost without noticing , she was soon telling Antony everything she had felt or feared in the past week . |