Example sentences of "started [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We started slowly down the stairs . |
| 2 | He had put his anorak on again , no sign of the gun , no bulge as he climbed in and we started on up the mountain road , windscreen wipers slashing back and forth . |
| 3 | Building started piecemeal in the 18th century , and became too many to mention , but there is a history of the major banks bursting . ’ |
| 4 | The day which ended terribly at the presidential palace started badly at the same venue . |
| 5 | Each video started sufficiently before the junction to allow signs for the junction to be seen and lasted until the car was approximately 100 yards past the junction . |
| 6 | Shortly after that we came over the top of the pass and started down towards the coast . |
| 7 | Turning , she rushed to the stairs and started down to the ground floor . |
| 8 | In the morning , I slept through the pigeons , but around 8.30 a loud banging started down in the nave like they might have been building a scaffold or something . |
| 9 | The passageway outside was still reverberating from the crash when he started in on the door of the next apartment . |
| 10 | We took Roydale and Fringe from the lads and when Tremayne had driven off and positioned himself on his hillock we started together up the all-weather gallop , going the fastest I 'd been ever . |
| 11 | And as the Western media talks about a 3rd World War starting in the Gulf , millions of people all over the world know that the Third World War started long before the battle in the Gulf . |
| 12 | It started finally at the third attempt , and Sabine was almost weeping as she threw it at the hill . |
| 13 | Darwin introduced a new element into the equation because he started not from the fossil record but from field studies , which forced him to consider the real-life pressures acting upon species in the course of geological time . |
| 14 | We started off down the hill towards the police station ; the culprit , as we saw him , leading the four gringos . |
| 15 | He went outside , shutting the large doors silently and started off down the concrete road . |
| 16 | Alfred Hedgehog climbed up the bank of the canal and started off down the trail . |
| 17 | When her legs had stopped shaking sufficiently , she started off down the path again . |
| 18 | Without further ado , he started off towards the school buildings . |
| 19 | I went out into Main Street and started off for the pier . |
| 20 | Madge was attended by six little Burmese bridesmaids , who as soon as she arrived started off up the long aisle , and she followed with the kind friend at whose house she had spent the previous two nights and who ‘ gave her away ’ . |
| 21 | She flushed scarlet , hastily collected as much as she could carry and started off up the cliff path . |
| 22 | The programmes started off as the ‘ Education by Radio ’ series broadcast by the Roman Catholic station San Rafael . |
| 23 | Back in January Dallas performed what started off as the demolition and ended up in the annihilation of the Bills ' hopes of making it third time lucky at Superbowl . |
| 24 | Charles started off into the gloom . |
| 25 | So I started off with the idea that there 's this little baby in the cradle , he 's completely in the dark and the dark is something really frightening . |
| 26 | Gyggle started off with the most sophisticated of these , the symbol and colour cards , but was soon reduced to getting me to try and guess — and a guess is all I could make — which of three paper cups had a ping-pong ball under it . |
| 27 | But leaving that aside i i it started off with the , the Co-op in Scotland , and also Safeways . |
| 28 | Well we the E E C started off with the water filtrations and air products and then they got tied up with an American outfit doing fuel savers , magnets for your car . |
| 29 | Which is a bloody good thing , really that I started off with the tape , hands |
| 30 | ‘ It started off with the helmet law and it 's progressed from there , ’ he said . |