Example sentences of "they started [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then paid tribute to the Alresford Society , pointing out that when they started pushing for environmental improvements in the 1970s , it was before conservation had come into fashion . |
| 2 | And one of the people I 'd taken an order from , they started pushing . |
| 3 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
| 4 | It is then , that in order to survive , they started creating their own rigid patterns . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , they were not immune to public pressure nor to the machinations of some of their fellow councillors and critics , and the realisation that their policy was not as flexible 85 they had hoped , they started to liberalise it both in its written form and its application to particular cases . |
| 6 | Glasgow is no exception , except , unlike other cities , once they started building these concrete jungles they forgot to stop . |
| 7 | And er so times were still hard , it was n't until they , let's say until thirty ei thirty eight , that the depression finished in the coal field , when they started building up from then . |
| 8 | Well that 's where they started building boats at . |
| 9 | Judging from December , they , they started to lie , and they lied us again and again . |
| 10 | When they started to let us out of the house we were able to rummage amongst the appalling pile of rubbish strewn around the University campus nearby . |
| 11 | In December 1966 , police had to evict anti-war demonstrators from the Berkeley campus , and , as student leaders called for a campus strike , they started singing the old student favourite ‘ Solidarity Forever ’ . |
| 12 | One afternoon the Dodger and Charley Bates were at home and they started telling Oliver about their lives as thieves . |
| 13 | Slowly , they started to talk , except for Willie who only listened . |
| 14 | They started to talk about the ego , id and superego as if they were physical realities located in the body . |
| 15 | erm Because the loggers have been , as I said earlier , logging 24 hours around the clock , and they 're supposed to be logging over a 70 year cycle , and they 're not because the companies have only got three year licenses , and basically the indigenous people have just had enough , so they started to block the logging roads . |
| 16 | After a day or so , they started to inspect the half-buried ¾″ plastic pipes I had provided as caves . |
| 17 | They started to wear that blank face all us Easterners are so good at assuming when we are uneasy . |
| 18 | Walked towards them and they started to go back , flock away . |
| 19 | So they started getting drunk together , and writing songs together . |
| 20 | Now I had to do something about Mary-Claude 's family , because after Emerson 's broadcast , they started getting calls as well . |
| 21 | She 's had a lot of ups and downs , Christmas , New Year 's Eve night Rudy and I went to a party , Pam 's daughter 's party , it 's her eighteenth and at quarter to twelve when they started getting ready to ring the chimes in , at midnight Wendy said I ca n't stay Joy I 'm gon na have to go I said oh alright then , I said I see you alright , are you alright ? |
| 22 | Oh yes , they were a bit pleased but straight away they started getting , you know Alex was getting tired so we were getting can I get it out , can I get this out , can I get that and it were half open and I was frightened of losing the bits so I gave him one and he said no he did n't want that one he wanted the other one , so I give him another one and then I nearly gave him a clout . |
| 23 | So I think when they started getting all this |
| 24 | However more recently they they started to do things sort of separately in including a separate training . |
| 25 | At last finding someone to move so their love did n't have to be separated they started to do things which the middle-aged woman in the tweed suit would not have approved of , luckily for her she had dismounted earlier . |
| 26 | It was this potential distortion of competition that was in particular invoked by the Community institutions when they started to enact environmental and consumer protection legislation during the 1970s . |
| 27 | Then on December 31 , right before they started ringing in the new tax year , executive vice president Ron Lachman wrote out a cheque to Systemhouse buying back the piece of Interactive that had originally been the most famous part of the old Lachman Associates ( UX No 220 ) . |
| 28 | They started ringing up London recruitment agencies , such as Cambridge Appointments , asking if there were any sharedealing jobs around . |
| 29 | They started ringing and writing from March offering titbits such as : ‘ Would you do a U-turn in a rally car dressed as Margaret T ? ’ |
| 30 | They started to disagree over the clothes Ace insisted on buying her until she was almost overcome with embarrassment . |