Example sentences of "started [v-ing] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | Shortly afterwards the lady herself started using this latter phrase . |
| 3 | The there 's there 's there 's an interesting way involved in my mind when I started writing this in this changed format from last year . |
| 4 | it 's to , to a certain extent you start writing the essay and then once you start writing it you suddenly realize what you want to say , I mean he started writing this erm and he , he 's not quite sure I th I think , you know , where , where it 's all leading to . |
| 5 | ‘ Well you know , the new Fender pickups , since they started remaking this guitar , are actually really good . |
| 6 | anyway dad I well you started fixing this did n't you , on Christmas day ? |
| 7 | ‘ For me it 's been exactly the opposite ; I 've never been healthier — and I 'm much more religious than when I started doing this . |
| 8 | So I started doing this on a sexual basis . |
| 9 | I mean I spoke to Ken before he started doing this exercise , and I 'm worried |
| 10 | ‘ In 1975 , when we started doing this , all my competition were saying it could n't be done . |
| 11 | ‘ In 1975 , when we started doing this , all my competition were saying it could n't be done . |
| 12 | And so he 's the one who started doing this — I do n't know if you remember Rolling Stone during that period he started getting slight , not really new wave , but we used some of the constructivist thing of breaking pages somewhat and pushing things on angles or erm My favourite was his Bob Dylan spread which actually I did , but it was based on what he was trying to get me to do , where everything read left to right and everything was , you know , point sizes lined up and everything was on a column grid , but it was , when you looked at it you had to , you know , like focus on it . |
| 13 | Once Mr Hooper started managing this group , it got a name for itself — ‘ Black and Blue ’ . |
| 14 | The horses started arriving this morning … the Irish were first in … they 're supporters are pouring in all week … |
| 15 | TV viewers , astute ones , will notice when Norman first hoves on to the screen that his swing is very upright , which is how he started playing this game . |