Example sentences of "started [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when that voice was stretched over an LP it started to wear a bit thin . |
| 2 | When it won the Pulitzer Prize in the US in April 1983 it started to gather a bit more grudging attention and the occasional baffled or withering review ( the London Sunday Times , for example , described it as ‘ drearily predictable ’ ) . |
| 3 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 4 | Then the voice started to wobble a bit . |
| 5 | Leeds fans started to look a bit more worried … they had 4–5 shots from the edge of the area … fortunately they are so crap not one crossed the line inside the penalty area ! |
| 6 | I started to walk a way out of the main bedroom and I heard P C say words to the effect of get down and I turned round to see what was going on and the man was trying to roll over to get up or that 's what I thought , erm not kicking or or fighting or anything but just to me it looked as though he was going to get up and I went back and with my hands just pushed down onto him and said stay there , it will all be explained er and then walked away . |
| 7 | ‘ We had been playing a lot of country and blues songs before we started to play a couple of Hendrix numbers in the set and it just caught on so we added more , ’ said Slim . |
| 8 | For a moment he thought that Terry was going to say something important , because his mouth started to form a word , but nothing came out . |
| 9 | In the middle of a French lesson I was taking , she stood on her desk and started to do a strip . |
| 10 | When my children attempted to drag me into the Cumberland Pencil Museum in Keswick I started to devise a list of silly museums — corn plasters of the world , Peruvian nose flutes , or some such other daft idea . |
| 11 | As Carolyn started to read a look of absorption came over the child 's face , and her thumb slotted into her mouth . |
| 12 | He was close to tears when he started to read a statement in which he opened his heart as never before . |
| 13 | But , as he pulled out her chair and let his fingers skim as if by accident across her shoulders , red lights started to flash a warning . |
| 14 | In 1948 a group of volunteers from the village started to build a village hall . |
| 15 | With the bricks she had unearthed she started to build a path around the perimeter of the garden . |
| 16 | As his confidence grew we carefully started to build a player able to play for the others . |
| 17 | Tony set up his tripod in a snow drift and started to contemplate a shot , so we left him to it and visited the town 's Polar Museum . |
| 18 | While working on the catapult Endill started to keep a diary . |
| 19 | Although Paul usually forgot his dreams on waking in the morning , he began to remember his dreams and started to keep a diary of what he had dreamt . |
| 20 | They must have felt the need for a farmer 's almanac and so started to keep a tally of days , which they recorded with special symbols . |
| 21 | When I first started to smoke a cigarette , I felt ill but I kept on because everyone else was doing it , but with sniffing glue when I first tried it I enjoyed it , it 's something I did enjoy , that 's the reason I started anyway . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ See , I think the machines started to get a hold of me when I was a lad . |
| 23 | This was where Mrs Grace started to get a bit coy . |
| 24 | Anyway , Swindon started to get a bit more of the ball … |
| 25 | Then he started to get a bit violent , but not excessive . |
| 26 | Then I started to get a feeling that the Lord was going to move me from my present job . |
| 27 | It was n't until she was put back on a different oral antibiotic — these work directly on the inflamed cells in the spots — that she started to notice a change . |
| 28 | First of all , though , my words must have stuck because it started to blow a bit during the round , about 20 miles-per-hour I 'd say , but Tony shot a 73 , which was a fair score . |
| 29 | So intrigued did Charlie become by these seemingly endless selling opportunities that he started to take a tram up to the West End on a Sunday morning just to see for himself . |
| 30 | Not , well , when the children were born , the grandchildren , we started to take a lot more but we do n't take quite as many now . |