Example sentences of "started [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out that the best people , like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin , started singing in gospel choirs not at music lessons . |
| 2 | WHEN CCG first started catering for Abbey National in Milton Keynes , the requirement was to provide a counter service lunch to about 700 staff in one office , along with executive and conference dining facilities . |
| 3 | ‘ But obviously you ca n't have the confidence unless you keep winning , and I have n't been winning since April when I started struggling with injury . ’ |
| 4 | But the more the Duchess of Teck received the more she spent , and shopkeepers , who had sent round goods on a royal promise to pay later , started pressing for payment now . |
| 5 | Other drivers described how the Metro overtook a caravan and then started weaving from side to side . |
| 6 | I kept this dark secret for 15 years — but when it started happening in front of the children , I knew I had to do something about it . |
| 7 | It 's hard to believe that he started painting in World War Two and is still painting today . |
| 8 | 13.16 : Started meeting with Deputy Head and Class Teacher who has since apologised . |
| 9 | She repotted every plant in the house and started listening to opera . |
| 10 | As the war proceeded , however , several started operating by night and with all the lights blacked out . |
| 11 | He started shouting for help and about ten or fifteen minutes later , two chaps arrived and a couple of torches shone down on my father at the bottom . |
| 12 | While the others started looking for land , he slid back onto his gun . |
| 13 | It was only as we came in to Maidstone and I started looking for Hospital signs that I began to suffer the nervous Whirling Pits way down in my stomach . |
| 14 | At the end of last year Hong Kong 's fledgling Securities and Futures Commission started looking into share purchases by Connaught Investors , part of the Jardine empire . |
| 15 | Clients acquired a paternalistic interest in their stocks , started looking at profit figures and earnings per share , perhaps for the first time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I started looking in Cage and Aviary magazine after Sue Yen — the lady I 'd bought Barny from — told me about it . |
| 18 | It is time we stopped talking of despair and started living in hope . |
| 19 | And it was n't until we started analysing for zinc that we realized what the problem was . |
| 20 | Is n't it time you started paying by Switch ? |
| 21 | SHARES in holiday groups Airtours and Owners Abroad surged as newly confident Brits shook off recession blues and started poring over travel brochures . |
| 22 | I , even Nick , Nick said two years ago things started going down hill The best paid jobs these days , say what you like , do n't like , is either in local government or something like that . |
| 23 | At first the streets were empty , then shops began to open and people started going to work . |
| 24 | Previously , in the eighteenth and seventeenth centuries , a man himself could dress and show how wealthy he was , and when man started going to work he had to wear a respectable , responsible suit ; he had to put across the image of honesty , of , you know , I 'm , I 'm a respectable man , I 'm decent , I 'm down to earth . |
| 25 | But one major turning point came when she started going to carpentry evening classes and found she had real talent for do-it-yourself . |
| 26 | Why Mr never came , because , he came , he started going to school , I heard this at recorders , he did n't , he did n't get up till late cos he did n't hear it , he he was driving to school and he started a little , little but he went home . |
| 27 | Started going to night school . |
| 28 | Yes , we spent quite a lot of time alone together , started going to bed and all that , and yes we were sensible enough to know that even when you 're falling in love you should n't live entirely in one another 's pockets . |
| 29 | In December 1982 Jim 's family started squatting in council housing and were referred to the social work department by the housing department . |
| 30 | He started racing in motorcycle scrambling at the age of 10 . |