Example sentences of "started [verb] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was never away off the island until er I started to work at Holland . |
| 2 | I first started to write at school and I 'd charge a few pence for each story — you should have seen what I was writing for the girls . |
| 3 | The defendant 's brother started shouting at Pc . |
| 4 | The girl started clawing at Maggie . |
| 5 | If you decided that you 're really only interested in long priced horses because you wanted win a large sum of money , so you only started looking at horses that were offered at fifty to one or longer odds than that , then if you look at the statistics then you 'll find that the rate of return on such bets is even lower than the rate of return that we 've quoted on football pools , but on the other hand if you look at horses which are offered , say , at odds-on or at very low odds , evens , two to one and things like that , then the rate of return is pretty close to a hundred per cent of your money . |
| 6 | Clients acquired a paternalistic interest in their stocks , started looking at profit figures and earnings per share , perhaps for the first time . |
| 7 | Nigel first started looking at bungee jumps in 1990 when he was asked to be an expert witness in an industrial tribunal concerning a bungee jump at a fairground . |
| 8 | CLUB SURFACES LTD ( ) were early pioneers who started looking at ways of developing non-turf pitches back in 1976 . |
| 9 | She started looking at ways of securing financial support other than grant-funding . |
| 10 | ‘ I started to look at things a bit differently after that , and it certainly seems to have worked for me . ’ |
| 11 | Marco started pulling at Tabitha 's arm again . |
| 12 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 13 | you see , like , I mean I started staying at home on Saturdays and , I do n't do nothing , if Tony comes home and says he wants to go out I get it ready then otherwise I just plan on staying home |
| 14 | In particular no heat came from 8 mm rods , one of which they started charging at Christmas and which was still being charged in March . |
| 15 | Details of the troop deployment were formulated by the Saudis and Dick Cheney , the US Defence Secretary , on Aug. 6 , and the next day Bush formally announced that King Fahd had requested that US ground forces and war-planes be dispatched to Saudi Arabia to deter Iraqi aggression ; US combat aircraft and troops started to land at Dharhan in eastern Saudi Arabia that day . |
| 16 | She suddenly started screeching at Bruno , so abruptly that Maxim felt a jab in his spine and knew he 'd come very close to being shot . |
| 17 | Then , as the players came thundering down the boards , she joined the stampede , trying to steal the ball and nearly bringing down the pony of a fat child with pigtails , whose mother promptly started yelling at Daisy . |
| 18 | Harry had tensed at the criticism , but Scarface laughed and the whole bar started roaring at Bull 's subtlety and wit . |
| 19 | After Children in Flight , parcels of food and clothing started arriving at Dovercourt . |
| 20 | He started betting at greyhound stadiums , then extended to pony racing at Northolt Park , and in 1934 opened a one-room office in Jermyn Street . |
| 21 | One such person was an African who started working at DPR . |
| 22 | The Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly ( Zeta ) started working at Harwell in August 1957 , just before the USSR launched the first Sputnik . |