Example sentences of "started [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We started singing a carol . |
| 2 | She started eating a cream cake . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll ask no leading questions , as I remember how I loathed them when I first started seeing a lot of Tom . |
| 4 | But when that voice was stretched over an LP it started to wear a bit thin . |
| 5 | And yo when I look back an and er and think of even when I first started nursing a lot of the girls we used to get in , they thought if they kissed a man they were going to have a baby . |
| 6 | Would n't miss a meetin' , an' one day she started goin' a bit funny . |
| 7 | Their mother and father have told them that it is about time they started helping a bit more at home . |
| 8 | When it won the Pulitzer Prize in the US in April 1983 it started to gather a bit more grudging attention and the occasional baffled or withering review ( the London Sunday Times , for example , described it as ‘ drearily predictable ’ ) . |
| 9 | He usually started drawing a figure from a certain point and then worked outwards , as if his drawings worked from within to without ; but in addition they were also extremely beautiful drawings in their own right . |
| 10 | Of the seven or eight countries that secretly have nuclear weapons , or are close to having them , only one ( India ) started building a bomb because it was worried about one of the big five ( China ) . |
| 11 | While Jane the orphan was resting she started courting a Manchester boy . |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know why I started using a palette knife ; maybe because I wanted to mould the paint to show the other side of the mountain . |
| 13 | When I first started becoming a woman on playing on the beach and I ran home petrified . |
| 14 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 15 | He got up from his seat as quickly as his thick furs and old muscles would allow , kicked some slates and books out of his way across the glass floor and started inspecting a pillar a few metres away . |
| 16 | Other hands tightened my blindfold until it hurt and started fitting a cloth over my mouth . |
| 17 | Then the voice started to wobble a bit . |
| 18 | Endill sat beside him and he started turning a handle at the front of it . |
| 19 | Leeds fans started to look a bit more worried … they had 4–5 shots from the edge of the area … fortunately they are so crap not one crossed the line inside the penalty area ! |
| 20 | But things started going a bit wrong before she could start . |
| 21 | Just imagine if Deano started scoring a couple of goals and the defence tightened up just a fraction more . |
| 22 | I started to walk a way out of the main bedroom and I heard P C say words to the effect of get down and I turned round to see what was going on and the man was trying to roll over to get up or that 's what I thought , erm not kicking or or fighting or anything but just to me it looked as though he was going to get up and I went back and with my hands just pushed down onto him and said stay there , it will all be explained er and then walked away . |
| 23 | Seven years ago Norman decided their exploits needed to be remembered and started compiling a record of all former cadets who took part in the Anglo-American training operation . |
| 24 | ‘ We had been playing a lot of country and blues songs before we started to play a couple of Hendrix numbers in the set and it just caught on so we added more , ’ said Slim . |
| 25 | ‘ I started bowling a bit of medium pace but I stuck with the leg spin as well and I 'm glad I did . ’ |
| 26 | For a moment he thought that Terry was going to say something important , because his mouth started to form a word , but nothing came out . |
| 27 | It took about nine months before it started getting a grip of us really . |
| 28 | I think it probably bothered me later when we started getting a bit bigger . ’ |
| 29 | And because I kept on asking , my dad started getting a bit funny . |
| 30 | Early fertility treatments were mainly mechanical , like fallopian reconstruction , artificial insemination , concentrating sperm which had a low count and then , when things started getting a bit flashy , in vitro fertilisation . ’ |