Example sentences of "had started [adv prt] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had started out in Cleveland , Ohio playing 3,000 people — he went back to Cleveland within two months and played to 20,000 people . |
| 2 | Two thousand miles to the east of St Petersburg , the boxcar was part of a long train that had started out in St Petersburg a week earlier and had gone along the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 3 | He was a man who had started out in his career simple and full of hope , but his life had been so marked by violent and terrible happenings that his character was now seamed and rocky like a mountain face which had been opened up by movements of the earth , then partly sealed by lava flows . |
| 4 | We had started off in grand style , rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns . |
| 5 | He had started off in a modest enough way as a schoolboy like so many others — but at a time when education had not yet become compulsory ; what he did have was both the brains and the parental support to turn his flair for learning to good effect . |