Example sentences of "and started [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But fashion , as always , changed and the short skirt fell — literally — from favour and started skimming the ankles . |
| 2 | But fashion , as always , changed and the short skirt fell — literally — from favour and started skimming the ankles . |
| 3 | She stood there , leaning on the phone table , and started reading the names incised into the wood . |
| 4 | More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights . |
| 5 | Asked why Mr Clinton appeared to have stopped using the word ‘ sacrifice ’ and started using the word ‘ contribute ’ to describe what he would ask of Americans in his plan , Ms Myers said : ‘ The problem with the word sacrifice is that it implies nobody gets anything out of it . ’ |
| 6 | Instead of submitting his organisation to the will of party bureaucrats , he turned it into his own power-base and started bombarding the party with his own initiatives . |
| 7 | Not that it mattered because the woman whose dress she 'd soaked turned around and started shouting the place down . |
| 8 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 9 | The bang of the door woke him and he reached himself up on to the table and started sniffing the newly polished leather . |
| 10 | Dickon arrived , with his crow , two squirrels and the fox , and started pushing the wheelchair gently away from the house , and into the gardens . |
| 11 | Leeds fortunately got their act together and started passing the ball around and a couple of minutes later Forrester volleyed in from ten yards after good work on the right by Dave White . |
| 12 | ‘ If they stopped shouting ‘ Jobson out , Murphy out ’ and started supporting the team , we might end up winning a few games . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ When no-one was available to see him he went red in the face and started thumping the desk , ’ said Ann . |
| 14 | Tom turned his eyes from the paper and started singing the song from Don Giovanni that is always called the Champagne Aria . |
| 15 | Jerking the nobleman roughly into an upright sitting position , he relieved him of his gold chain and started pulling the rings off his fingers . |
| 16 | We sat that first evening on two carpenter 's benches — we did n't even have proper tables and chairs — and started mixing the album . |
| 17 | I finished the testing and started cleaning the sky , which is where I always begin . |
| 18 | Muffin galloped to the door and started undoing the bolts with her teeth . |
| 19 | He stopped outside the pub and started turning the handle . |
| 20 | Planned to be a criminologist after Oxford , you know , and started applying the craft to friends and acquaintances at Breakspear . |
| 21 | Some eels may then have discovered the richness of food to be found in estuaries and rivers and started spending the main part of their lives there . |
| 22 | Then they suddenly came along and started felling the lot . |