Example sentences of "they started " in BNC.
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| 1 | They started by clearing the tables and arranging the wooden chairs on the fixed padded seats around the wall . |
| 2 | By the time they started ‘ I Guess it Does n't Matter Anymore ’ they were onto the last saucepan and the table was covered with clean , dry things . |
| 3 | Shocked , they started up , but they made no attempt to cover their nakedness . |
| 4 | They started the week at 336p . |
| 5 | They started by taking action that diminished goverment receipts . |
| 6 | They started by working on a property while they were carrying on other employment , and then turning that property into hotel accommodation . |
| 7 | They started to run meetings in the house for the wives of the clergy , where Ramsey talked theology to them and mixed it with a lot of humour . |
| 8 | Act guiltily and they 'll judge you guilty As they started to follow him down the street he got more and more worried He broke into a run . |
| 9 | Phoebe lifted her to her feet and they started towards the door . |
| 10 | They started the ugly dance again . |
| 11 | They started to eat different food , see different clothes and furniture in the shops and different houses and their perspective widened . |
| 12 | The two girls were quiet for a long time after the door closed ; then suddenly , unaccountably , they started to push one another , boisterously mimicking Moran : ‘ God , O God , what did I do to deserve such a crowd ? |
| 13 | At the end of the long road Reynolds ' was the first house they had to pass and they started to cringe into themselves behind Moran even before they got to the little hedge of privet above the whitewashed stones . |
| 14 | He and Tony got on well : they started arguing over whether it was better to have two bits of black pudding rather than two sausages in the terminal café , and when that battle was over they started another about who was going to have the window seat on the plane . |
| 15 | He and Tony got on well : they started arguing over whether it was better to have two bits of black pudding rather than two sausages in the terminal café , and when that battle was over they started another about who was going to have the window seat on the plane . |
| 16 | When my uncle got married , they started treating my Kaki ( aunt ) badly . |
| 17 | They started from the front row on Sunday , Senna having produced his usual stunning lap to take pole , Prost following through in the Ferrari with a lap notable for its customary smoothness and precision . |
| 18 | They started with the kitchen . |
| 19 | They poured money into British films without doing anything to ensure the production boom they started would develop roots . |
| 20 | They started off together hitting stones around the beaches of northern Spain with old sticks . |
| 21 | Rayner can not resist the British crow that they started downhill at Montana , Switzerland , in 1911 ; or that the Wengen Swiss are everlastingly grateful to the Downhill Only Club ( otherwise , not too literately , the DHO ) for teaching them how to race and how to lose . |
| 22 | They started it all . |
| 23 | Shostakovich summed up his colleague 's fatal misconception : ‘ He came to Moscow to teach them and they started teaching him . ’ |
| 24 | Investors say both have improved their services since they started to face serious competition . |
| 25 | Then they started walking . |
| 26 | It 's a slow old business , putting everybody in the country they started from . |
| 27 | They started to give him more advice . |
| 28 | They started the hip hop thing but they 're just not getting any recognition from it ’ |
| 29 | Bored with straight DJing ( as Chuck and Looney Tunes ) , they started recording , intending to build their own original dub plates . |
| 30 | They started the Scottish skatewear company Poizone Designs . |