Example sentences of "started [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Bolton kept her in a pen where , despite remaining in a very frightened state , the little beast recovered and started eating small amounts of hay . |
| 2 | Their displacement , says Helen , has caused a crisis in dental health because people started eating refined foods and sweets , rather than their traditional Tibetan roast barley flour and dried yak meat . |
| 3 | We did not exactly quarrel , but we started unloading pent-up resentments and frustrations . |
| 4 | She found him nice and easy to talk to , and they soon started seeing each other regularly . |
| 5 | How the action group started remain unclear . |
| 6 | They started to wear that blank face all us Easterners are so good at assuming when we are uneasy . |
| 7 | Then we all started demanding cheap food and the first thing to be sacrificed , along with the freedom of a chicken to scratch for worms , was flavour . |
| 8 | But he lost his place when Kenny Dalglish started to invest millions in the club and until last week was on loan at nearby Preston . |
| 9 | However , in 1989 things started to go all wrong as she developed a hook in the very week before she went to the English at Burnham and Berrow Much of the season , by her high standards , was bitterly disappointing but , by dint of " plugging away " , she began to rediscover her form during the week of the English Intermediate won by Lora Fairclough . |
| 10 | Gina 's face started to go red , |
| 11 | I do n't get red , I 've never have done I , its only sort of over the past sort of half year , and I do n't know why , they never started , started to go red |
| 12 | But because in Hollywood you 're only as good as your last movie , things started to go sour for Dreyfuss after starring in The Big Fix , a big flop . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's where it started to go sour . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , no one could claim that it was a united Cabinet and this was made worse as the everyday issues of government started to go wrong . |
| 15 | His bid started to go wrong at the 12th hole and spluttered out at the 17th , the Road Hole , where many an aspiration had been snuffed out in the past . |
| 16 | ‘ With the arrival of these new people , things started to go wrong . |
| 17 | He ran his own small business , but then about five or six years ago it all started to go wrong . |
| 18 | Things started to go wrong when Stuart became increasingly dissatisfied at work . |
| 19 | As things started to go wrong , perhaps inevitably the partners began to question the lack of synergy between the two main practices in the work they were doing . |
| 20 | But suddenly it all started to go wrong for him . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyway , ’ she said , ‘ we went over to Corsica for the marriage and that 's when things started to go wrong . |
| 22 | Things started to go wrong from the moment Dexter got up . |
| 23 | Suddenly , things started to go wrong in my mind . |
| 24 | It was when he reached the ground floor and was only a few paces from the door leading to the basement that things started to go wrong . |
| 25 | But then things started to go wrong . |
| 26 | The day performed beautifully for them , right through to the evening , and then things started to go wrong . |
| 27 | But as the race got underway at Abu Dhabi , things started to go wrong . |
| 28 | Things started to go wrong after just 16 minutes when Steve Norris raced through and lobbed the ball over the heads for the first goal … |
| 29 | Half of the way through the book when things started to go wrong Ralph realised that Piggy did have some valuable points . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . |