Example sentences of "had started with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , there always seemed to be a hard core of people who were determined to breathe new life into a tradition that had started with phenomenal success in 1892 under its first president , Billy Hutchinson , of Redcar . |
| 2 | It had started with fitzAlan battering at the wall of indifference she had erected between herself and the world , and now every little thing seemed to hinder its rebuilding . |
| 3 | It was a fortnight now since it had started with such a hullabaloo , but there had been no raids , and no bombs had been dropped ; the sirens went and people made for the shelters , but more and more half-heartedly , as days passed and nothing exciting happened . |
| 4 | It was run by a couple of brothers who had started with one large pub in North London and had built the company , by dint of aggressive take-over tactics and shrewd property dealing , to a sizeable enterprise with a turnover of nearly forty million pounds . |
| 5 | Mr Gatenby 's addiction had started with one phone call because , he said , he was unsettled , did not mix easily and lived on his own . |
| 6 | They had started with 235 gallons of fuel , enough for 5.22 hours of flying , but things were now getting critical . |
| 7 | There were a number of clues available to Robson : if West had still held the guarded queen of clubs he would almost certainly have kept and exited with his last spade ; if he had held both the king and queen of clubs he would have been equally likely to win the first club with the queen ; and , from what had happened so far , it looked as though West had started with more clubs than his partner . |
| 8 | Dunlop ( DUP ) started the election at Stage I fairly lowdown but was elected sixth in Stage Xl in front of Lindsay and Morrison ( both VUPP ) who had started with more votes than Dunlop . |