Example sentences of "[pron] start [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But we need someone to start pressing some buttons now — my only interest is to secure the long-term success of something which I believe is a very good event . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Owen always seemed to have an enormous amount of mail at Stratford and would come straight from the stage door to the green room , clutching a handful of letters which he would clasp to his body in a special way which I had n't realised he did until I started drawing this picture and could n't work out what to do with the arms . |
| 3 | ‘ When I started taking those wickets last summer , I began did begin to think I had a chance of representing my country but , to be truthful , I did n't think it could be more than the England A side . |
| 4 | Bush had been inaugurated while I was in Australia , and when I came home , I started getting all the bizarre ideas that maybe I 'd had enough of tennis . |
| 5 | It was very uncomfortable until firstly I started getting some of the programmes I had commissioned back , and secondly I saw on screen that some of them were going to be among the first successes of the Channel . |
| 6 | They had n't come in yet so I started getting some food ready and tried to make up my mind what to tell Rick . |
| 7 | Then after that , when I started writing more songs , people were saying ‘ Oh , that song of yours sounds like so-and-so , ’ which made me dig back to find out what they were talking about , back to music like The Beach Boys , The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , The Velvet Underground , Jimi Hendrix , Neil Young . |
| 8 | The there 's there 's there 's an interesting way involved in my mind when I started writing this in this changed format from last year . |
| 9 | ‘ For me it 's been exactly the opposite ; I 've never been healthier — and I 'm much more religious than when I started doing this . |
| 10 | So I started doing this on a sexual basis . |
| 11 | ‘ I started working many years ago , I can not remember how many , certainly over 15 . |
| 12 | then I started working more and more and more |
| 13 | I started blaming that for the headaches . |
| 14 | I felt a lot of anger , but there was nothing I could do with it ; then it faded , until I started making some connections with feminism at the beginning of the seventies . |
| 15 | So I started making some calls of my own . |
| 16 | It was only after he went into hospital that I started spending much time with him , because we knew his illness would run a rapid course . |
| 17 | I started keeping any post connected with finance away from him , and myself dealt with the usual household accounts such as the telephone and electricity , because even they sent him into a frenzy of checking and referring back to previous demands , an attitude completely alien to his normal temperament . |
| 18 | Then I started putting all my spare time in my arm … |
| 19 | If I start listing all the factors which I would like my friend to have , I would be here until next year ! |
| 20 | Whereas if I start doing all the crazy embellishments instead , everyone is going to have to react . |
| 21 | I mean if I start doing that |
| 22 | What time did I start doing this , er , tape ? |
| 23 | ‘ And Quatermass Queen , the one with the tentacle-arms and snakes in her hair , she starts strangling this monster , the fiery-eyed one that 's just speared the Muscly Monk with his laser-beam fingertips … ’ |
| 24 | Rather than risk not having the perfect shade she started buying those little sample containers and trying them out on a wall . |
| 25 | She started doing that funny face when we had her last time ! |
| 26 | And so he 's the one who started doing this — I do n't know if you remember Rolling Stone during that period he started getting slight , not really new wave , but we used some of the constructivist thing of breaking pages somewhat and pushing things on angles or erm My favourite was his Bob Dylan spread which actually I did , but it was based on what he was trying to get me to do , where everything read left to right and everything was , you know , point sizes lined up and everything was on a column grid , but it was , when you looked at it you had to , you know , like focus on it . |
| 27 | You are n't the same person since you started taking those things , Clare . |
| 28 | What , you 've only had them since you started taking those tablets ? |
| 29 | And how old were you when you started doing that ? |
| 30 | do you think it 'd be a good idea if you started doing some revising I went oh yeah I 'll have a think about it |