Example sentences of "[conj] he started [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found a place for a year in the household of a wealthy London merchant where he started to translate the New Testament ; it became clear , however , that there was no possibility of printing it in England , so in 1524 he left for Germany , never to return . |
| 2 | Is it not time that he started backing the British car industry in the way that the Germans support theirs ? |
| 3 | The artist became so angry that he started to slash the canvas . |
| 4 | The enormity of what had gone wrong struck him afresh and he started kicking the door and yelling again , but this time nobody answered , not even the snoring drunks . |
| 5 | And he started thumping the sand and wailing at the seagulls — real Play for Today stuff — and an elderly couple who were listening to a radio behind a wind-break looked quite alarmed . |
| 6 | And then I 'd I 'd had enough and then he started messing about and he started pushing the boxes down through my strapper then , course that messed the strapper up ! |
| 7 | For the first time Jenking was becoming worried , and he started to check the compass frequently and ordered leadsmen in to the chains to take soundings . |
| 8 | For a brief period Peron was besotted with Tank until he started decimating the Argentine 's supply of test pilots . |
| 9 | Since he started selling the devices Mr Tudor says he has been inundated with orders . |
| 10 | It was five minutes before he stopped yelling , before he started to absorb the terrible pain that burnt through his flesh . |
| 11 | ‘ After Anthony caught the cod he returned to the car park because his car was blocking somebody in , ’ explained a colleague at Sizewell B. ‘ One of his mates then stuffed the watch down the cod 's throat with a stick — I can imagine Anthony 's surprise when he started to fillet the fish back home . |
| 12 | As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " . |
| 13 | When he started attending the centre , he was still unable to speak , read or write , but his understanding of language was returning . |
| 14 | Hārkini and Lāla Bahādur were lolling happily against Sigarup 's knees , chattering incoherently as he started to unpack the basket . |
| 15 | A great cheer went up as he started hitting the ball around , the merest tap sending it miles across a field as brown as Raimundo 's goatskin apron . |
| 16 | She realized as he started to load the projector that he probably did n't have many people to talk to . |
| 17 | As soon as he started to tear the paper off I had a wild desire to snatch it back , rush out and buy him a record-player ; it seemed such a ludicrously inadequate present after all he 'd done for me . |
| 18 | You — ’ His voice disappeared , and I had to put the phone away from my ear again as he started to hammer the handset against the walls of the call-box . |