Example sentences of "[modal v] start [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor are the prospects , even for Galway , as bad as they appear at the moment : workers reportedly wept openly in the Digital canteen when told their jobs were being phased out over the next 12 months , but the fear that most of the subcontractors that served DEC will have to close as well is not likely to be realised : where a company has a good relationship with a subcontractor , there are good reasons for maintaining that relationship even after a plant closes , and work should start flowing across the Irish Sea all the way to Galway from Scotland . |
| 2 | All went fine , and we were very chuffed and thrilled , until the producer of the show started to say , ‘ Well , of course , you acted with belted raincoats and the berets and it 's all very sweet , but maybe we could start to take off the belted raincoat , and leave perhaps just the fishnet tights … . ’ |
| 3 | Repeating numbers would quickly get the artistes in trim and once the show was on they would start rehearsing for the main summer production and perform at the same time . |
| 4 | People would hardly be seated when she would start to run through the various points , hands waving in explanation , face live with enthusiasm . |
| 5 | If DOS fails to match the first word of your input to its list of internal commands , it will start looking on the hard disk for a COM , EXE or BAT file with that name . |
| 6 | The first of the 850 former concentration camp prisoners and their families will start arriving from the war-torn former Yugoslav republic within days . |
| 7 | He is frightened that when he gets into the corridor he will start crying like the twelve-year-old boy . |
| 8 | When you 're hitting the main chord tones pretty hard and you 've got the other scale tones as passing notes then you can start going for the other chromatic tones . |