Example sentences of "[modal v] start [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After that I suppose I 'll start training for another marathon , but I 've never been good at looking to the future . |
| 2 | I 'll start I 'll start paying from this week anyway . |
| 3 | I feel really as if I ought to start flying through this awful mess ! |
| 4 | The plant , situated some 50 km from Hong Kong , would start operating in 1993 , rather than 1992 . |
| 5 | Any minute now , Andrew would start talking in disparaging tones about the habits of ‘ young people ’ , a favourite topic of his since reaching the age of forty . |
| 6 | The Bruce field ( BP : 37% ) will start producing in 1993 and will soon provide almost 10% of the UK 's gas needs . |
| 7 | Japan 's Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) will start spending in 1983 $70 million on a seven year project to develop ‘ learning robots ’ for sea-bed and space exploration , nuclear research and power-plant maintenance as well as aids for the old and handicapped . |
| 8 | So next year French and Belgian radio will start broadcasting on these frequencies . |
| 9 | I imagine that shortly after Bill and Ricky have arrived , the other guests will start coming in thick and fast . |
| 10 | He may start sitting like this in preparation for moving into the supine lying position ( on his back ) or , more rarely , into the prone lying position on his stomach . |
| 11 | Er when there 's already an abusive sort of dynamic going on erm y'know other people who are more similar in age can can can get can start participating in that . |
| 12 | Sorry , twenty four percent , twenty four percent body weight erm about a quarter in other words when , when a young woman 's body is about one quarter fat , she can start menstruating for obvious reasons . |