Example sentences of "started [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've also recently purchased an effects processor ( BOSS SE50 ) and as most of the patches for the guitar were boring , I started experimenting with some of my own . |
| 2 | We wrote these extraordinary shows , and then I just put on a dinner-jacket , started singing and gave them up . ’ |
| 3 | I 've lived in Miami since I was two years old but when Emilio and I started singing professionally , back in the late Seventies , we sang only in Spanish . |
| 4 | As I moved into the small museum , a male chorus started singing over the sound system : Glory , glory , it 's a hell of a way to die … |
| 5 | Someone started singing ‘ Oranges and Lemons ’ , and everybody joined in . |
| 6 | Someone started singing ‘ God Save the King ’ and soon everybody was joining in , thousands of strong hearts and lungs , shipyard workers , foundry men , train drivers , some still on strike , were swept away by the tide of emotion . |
| 7 | In December 1966 , police had to evict anti-war demonstrators from the Berkeley campus , and , as student leaders called for a campus strike , they started singing the old student favourite ‘ Solidarity Forever ’ . |
| 8 | But the moment I started singing again , I caught another trout . |
| 9 | Many of the musicians were unused to working with dancers and once when the band was out of tempo , the Girls started singing as they danced to get the music synchronized . |
| 10 | Then Kalchu , the only one who knew the words to the Indian song , started singing . |
| 11 | Adam started singing ‘ Flittermus , ottermus ’ to the tune of the Austrian Hymn . |
| 12 | A few months later Rob was playing this bassline and richard , prancing about with the microphone , started singing ‘ I 'm too sexy … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Sara finally gave the game away when she sat in front of her make-up mirror and started singing her own version of that song from Oklahoma ! — ‘ I 've got the dad in the morning and the son at night … ‘ . ’ |
| 14 | He started singing then and they accompanied him . |
| 15 | Tom turned his eyes from the paper and started singing the song from Don Giovanni that is always called the Champagne Aria . |
| 16 | During the " 14 — " 18 war , I started singing " Eternal Father strong to save " at the end of my prayers and Basil got very tired of it and asked Mother to stop me , but this she felt unable to do . |
| 17 | Suddenly the robin flew to a tree near Mary and started singing to her . |
| 18 | We started singing a carol . |
| 19 | She started singing love songs , but found they were not enough to express her feelings . |
| 20 | So the group of milkers started singing , to encourage the cows to give more . |
| 21 | He points out that the best people , like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin , started singing in gospel choirs not at music lessons . |
| 22 | Young men from all over the world started singing the Internationale , all in their own languages . |
| 23 | how you got started singing ? |
| 24 | How I got started singing ? |
| 25 | And it was really er I think it was really the pantomimes that I started singing |
| 26 | All the trucks and cars started crashing into one another , too . |
| 27 | Then it was as if trees started crashing down and roots tearing out of the ground . |
| 28 | On this day : King 's College , London , was opened , 1831 ; Charles Nessler first used a permanent waving machine on a woman 's hair , 1905 ; Britain 's tallest building , the Post Office Tower in London , opened , 1965 ; Britain 's first legal commercial radio station , LBC , started transmitting , 1973 . |
| 29 | Once he started transmitting he could n't help using all that C.B slang , even in an emergency . |
| 30 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |