Example sentences of "started [v-ing] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Glasgow is no exception , except , unlike other cities , once they started building these concrete jungles they forgot to stop . |
| 8 | fight to the last man They started firing first . |
| 9 | Since the women 's movement started bringing all the lesbians out , anyone with a bit of presence gets accused of it . |
| 10 | It used to be did n't it ? ( general assent ) But not no more , since they started bringing coloured families in . |
| 11 | He had given it up for his very inferior car when he started courting Big Brenda out of the Biology lab — Biological Brenda , as Preston called her , who gave them lessons on sex , and no doubt Sam as well . |
| 12 | The San Francisco Examiner , which is a paper I did , I started using digital photography for local news coverage . |
| 13 | No I remember from what I can remember anyway when I first started using negative numbers it was on a graph . |
| 14 | It was very confusing , key words , when we started using key words and when we asked because something was n't there , and we consulted the script , we were still cutting words out , but , at , the script was definite , but sort of like , two of them well they had doubts , and like we started cutting words out , and then like , the words that were out . |
| 15 | I started using one hand and it was ages before I learnt to use two . |
| 16 | So in December 1 ‘ 990 Bethan started using another lotion , applying it twice daily . |
| 17 | Is it not about time we started using different grounds for finals instead of Windsor or the Oval ? |
| 18 | Shortly afterwards the lady herself started using this latter phrase . |
| 19 | Mr Young started knitting 10 years ago . |
| 20 | I remember screaming and my scream breaking into ecstatic laughter and relief as the bear , instead of eating Charlot , started walking splay-footed in imitation of him , then went back into the wood . |
| 21 | The communist party considered art an appropriate promotional weapon to communicate with the outside world and started patronising certain artists . |
| 22 | Tracy and Ian Ballard started keeping these fierce creatures three years ago . |
| 23 | I started keeping any post connected with finance away from him , and myself dealt with the usual household accounts such as the telephone and electricity , because even they sent him into a frenzy of checking and referring back to previous demands , an attitude completely alien to his normal temperament . |
| 24 | The company has refused to explain why its auditors started becoming suspicious only a few months ago and why the dealership was lent $425m as recently as December . |
| 25 | there was four of us and we started bidding and somebody in the crowd started bidding four thousand . |
| 26 | Er the r the steering committee consisted of eight members , one form each constituency , and we started meeting last November . |
| 27 | The 6ft 5in children 's presenter featured in the gossip columns when he started dating Welsh beauty Catherine Zeta Jones , star of The Darling Buds of May . |
| 28 | He is claiming that Imperial Tobacco failed to issue warnings about the health hazards when he started smoking 30 years ago . |
| 29 | ‘ I STARTED smoking 40 cigarettes every day , but I do n't finish 40 . |
| 30 | ‘ I started boxing last November and I really like it . |