Example sentences of "started [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we drove back we started to plan for the return to Backnong in 1993 . |
| 2 | As he shrieked through his loudspeaker , the Sturmabteilungen started to stream through the crowd , their red shirts now on full display , hitting out at all who stood before them . |
| 3 | Almost suffocating myself with a minimum breathing aperture on account of the midges , I also started to condense inside the bag . |
| 4 | By the 19th century , European domination of the world meant that vast numbers of cultural and natural objects started to flow into the new museums of Europe . |
| 5 | It was not until well after the war began that Iraq started to diversify in the direction of France , with the Mirage and Super Etendard , both capable of delivering the much-discussed Exocet air/surface ( AS ) missile . |
| 6 | The attack came as pressure also started to mount on the chairman of the BBC governors , Marmaduke Hussey , the man who appointed Mr Birt as director general of the BBC and agreed his tax-avoiding freelance contract . |
| 7 | And as I started to go for the third man , I heard the sound of police whistles , and then two policemen arrived with the woman , and the third thug ran for it . |
| 8 | As soon as she started to go through the bundle of letters , all Moran 's attention was fixed on the sorting . |
| 9 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |
| 10 | The High Court in Glasgow heard that as the car started to go over the top of the steps , one of the youths pushing it shouted : ‘ There 's somebody down there . ’ |
| 11 | The constable started to go round the car , examining it minutely occasionally glancing up at the WPC to confirm the impression he was making . |
| 12 | ‘ Let's have a word with Roxie , ’ Coffin started to stroll towards the car . |
| 13 | Henry started to slide down the wall . |
| 14 | It stepped through the door and the tentacles started to slide along the walls towards her . |
| 15 | Now fantastic rumours started to circulate to the effect that the Virgin of Fatima might appear again — her last apparition had been in Portugal on 13 October 1927 . |
| 16 | Nikos started to come into the room , stopped and withdrew unobserved . |
| 17 | She moved violently in her sleep — and started to come to the surface of that sleep , just as , outside the hotel , there was a sudden screech of tyres on tarmac as brakes were slammed on . |
| 18 | However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes . |
| 19 | As Jake started to come round the desk towards her , she turned away , averting her eyes . |
| 20 | The two children started to scream from the bedroom beside her . |
| 21 | I started to worry about the curfew . |
| 22 | The notion of a Single Of The Week started to creep into the NME about 1974 and has now become a staple part of our weekly rock diet . |
| 23 | But she continued , her laughter growing until her body started to shake with the force of it . |
| 24 | She gently rocked the chair to and fro as she started to work on the head of a unicorn in white embroidery cotton . |
| 25 | Understanding that their design needed some improvements , Bell started to work on the basic airframe as GE started to improve the powerplant . |
| 26 | You started to work on the insides you know the got er th you varnished and sandpapered the insides of wardrobes , that 's where you started . |
| 27 | The whole thing was designed to smoke out double agents , to make sure you had n't gone over and started to work for the other side . |
| 28 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 29 | Before they started to work with the video all the teachers were shown the contract which was drawn up by Kate Kennett . |
| 30 | Here Forgive 'N Forget made a mistake and handed the initiative to Wayward Lad , but he was very tired and started to wander to the left towards the rails . |