Example sentences of "started [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lights of Lochgilphead swung into view ahead , just as rain started to spot the windscreen . |
| 2 | Several heads were raised , and one or two swivelled in the direction of the doors ; the usher saw this , and started to hustle the army man away . |
| 3 | She appeared to have forgotten about my not going to the funeral but that was before she started to lose the steps to the attic , so to speak , so it just meant that she chose to not mention it . |
| 4 | She inspected her bare feet and started to paint the toe-nails . |
| 5 | When I search a farmland site I always keep careful records , and looking back to my notes I started to search the areas where there had been the greatest concentration of finds . |
| 6 | He could hear vehicles moving along the road , dropping storm-troopers off at regular intervals as they started to search the forest . |
| 7 | Burun ran up the stairs and started to search the rooms . |
| 8 | In its place was now a dark ground , into which he started to gouge the outline of a figure . |
| 9 | He started to mouth the words ‘ I 'll bring you a choc bar , ’ but before he was halfway through this soundless sentence his wife 's face levelled up towards him . |
| 10 | ‘ I think that 's when American methods started to be applied and the whole atmosphere became less smooth , less gentlemanly ; a wave of toughness started to hit the City . |
| 11 | When the man eventually got home that day he told the assembled villagers of our meeting , and my warning , and said that after he had watched me go round a bend in the road a hundred yards away he started to light the cigarette I had given him . |
| 12 | She started to gather the syringe packets together . |
| 13 | ‘ You started to see the bodies as inanimate objects which you had to move . |
| 14 | I thought the man was crazy really but in 1966 I did develop an interest and started to attend the services … |
| 15 | When his physical rehabilitation could be reduced to a maintenance level of about one session per fortnight , he started to attend the City University where the City Dysphasic Group organized special programmes in communication skills for adults who had suffered head injuries or strokes . |
| 16 | Ellen started to unwrap the food : a mound of ricotta , slices of cooked ham , olives in oil , half a loaf of bread . |
| 17 | Jazz was streamlined and beautiful and started to attract the girls ; he was the purest athlete of them all , but the more fluent he became at running and swimming , the more he lost confidence with the riding . |
| 18 | She started to work the cream into the skin around her eyes , staring straight ahead at her reflection as she did it . |
| 19 | You — ’ His voice disappeared , and I had to put the phone away from my ear again as he started to hammer the handset against the walls of the call-box . |
| 20 | [ 2 ] He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long-gone pride and he put it against the fish 's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side , his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff , and started to pass the boat , long , deep , wide , silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water . |
| 21 | She started to pull the jersey over her head . |
| 22 | She started to grate the cheese . |
| 23 | Unions also started to accept the kind of deals that are commonplace today . |
| 24 | Hosanna started to smell the debris where she had put it on the marble top of the kitchen dresser and she shouted at him so that he darted out into the yard . |
| 25 | When , in 1989 , we started to explore the involvement of this mechanism in passive avoidance learning , there had already been a lot of speculation in the molecular neurobiology literature about whether it would be possible to show that c-fos and c-jun were specifically activated during memory formation ; but no-one had yet done the key , unequivocal experiment . |
| 26 | Liz Headleand stared at the scene with a marked lack of dismay , as Kate Armstrong knelt down and started to dust the earth off Giles , looking up to ask anyone who might be interested about the little blobs of white polystyrene that always seem to come mixed with bulb fibre : ‘ What is this stuff ? ’ asked Kate , ‘ I 've often wondered , ’ as she proceeded to re-pot a hyacinth with one hand while stroking Giles 's shoulder with the other . |
| 27 | We were giggling at each other 's pictures and I started to remember the amount of fun we used to have together . |
| 28 | But there was no semblance of a fluke about the result — it was the fastest Gold Cup ever run — and as Norton 's Coin made the long walk past the stands to the winner 's enclosure he started to receive the reception he deserved . |
| 29 | In doing this , the government effectively started to destroy the republic from within . |
| 30 | Benedict made no reply to this , but , calling to the dog , who was hovering near by , he started to lead the way out of the thicket to the road . |