Example sentences of "started [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I moved into the small museum , a male chorus started singing over the sound system : Glory , glory , it 's a hell of a way to die … |
| 2 | Ulysse and Brutus , both low-ranking males , soon moved in and started eating with the dominant females , who showed no aggression towards them . |
| 3 | Baird started cooking at The Ritz on Piccadilly , London , under Michael Quinn in 1982 . |
| 4 | In 1990 the commercial success of the Wonderstuff and Ned 's Atomic Dustbin started drawing in the disaffected . |
| 5 | So he started walking along the road out of town . |
| 6 | When I was ready , I started walking into the shallow water away from Blefuscu . |
| 7 | But when I started walking across the table to the farmer , his youngest son , a boy of about ten , picked me up by the legs . |
| 8 | The shepherd started walking towards the malthouse , and Boldwood followed him , holding the letter . |
| 9 | The next day we returned to the Rovacchia with more food for the boys , but as we started walking towards the embankment we heard a woman shouting at us : ‘ Where is Anna ? |
| 10 | Then she started laughing at the top of her voice . |
| 11 | Now our houses backed on to each other , with only the party wall between , so she just picked up the poker from the fender and started banging on the wall so that the plaster showered a cloud of dust in the room . |
| 12 | That 's when a lot of the girls started banging on the door , screaming and shouting . |
| 13 | Andrew added : ‘ She smelled smoke through the letterbox and naturally panicked and started banging on the door and shouting . |
| 14 | We started climbing towards the mess when , at 9.35 , the alarm went again . |
| 15 | In 1885 he started climbing in the Lake District , where his name is perpetuated in Slingsby 's pinnacle and Slingsby 's chimney on Scafell . |
| 16 | The manoeuvre was almost complete when the car started weaving across the road . |
| 17 | ‘ When you arrived in casualty last night you were covered with blood and they started hunting for the wounds and getting the blood transfusion supplies ready . |
| 18 | The man rattled off some instructions to Franco who retreated to the end of the bar and started hunting through the bottles on a particularly high shelf . |
| 19 | Naturally both sides got down and our men started swearing at the Germans , when all at once a brave German got on to his parapet and shouted ‘ We are very sorry about that ; we hope no one was hurt . |
| 20 | Mr McTear , a telecommunications worker and former 60-a-day smoker , is suing for an unspecified sum of damages , arguing that when he started smoking in the 1960s there were no health warnings on packets and that by the time they appeared he was addicted . |
| 21 | Meanwhile thousands of Sinhalese youths responded to radio appeals and started enlisting in the Army . |
| 22 | Very hurriedly he started searching through the unopened mail . |
| 23 | I left the main group and started searching on the first floor at the west side of the house . |
| 24 | I started searching around the shower area as I had planned earlier and immediately heard a signal indicating a quarter-sized coin , 3in down . |
| 25 | This unsettled all aircrew before they even started training at the Operational Training Unit . |
| 26 | Jeff started training for the marathon in October last year , and was running 50 miles a week when he suffered a hip injury . |
| 27 | Erm I went to , as a private nurse , I started training in the North Middlesex then I did children 's training in the Children 's Aid Society . |
| 28 | Her mother sat up suddenly and started shouting through the tears . |
| 29 | He drew level with Marius and myself and started shouting about the English and how they were always the first to desert ; how he , Corporal Auriega , with four years ' Legion service , who had endured shelling in Beirut and the heat and flies of Chad , had finally had enough . |
| 30 | One day just below their balcony a man had got out of his car and gone to the car in front and opened that car 's door and started shouting at the man inside , and then the car behind had started hooting and others had joined in . |