Example sentences of "start [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , the powerful speaker of the Iranian parliament , ‘ The Americans started contacting us through scores of channels begging us to help them in the Lebanon ; through Japan , our neighbouring countries like Pakistan , our embassies , the United Nations and numerous arms brokers . ’ |
| 2 | Once the Proving picture is obtained then enough is known about the remedy to start using it in practice . |
| 3 | Sort of when I first started using it at work |
| 4 | I started nagging him about money , about not having a proper job and no guts to get one … |
| 5 | And like I started doing it , I 'll read it out in English I started writing it in French came to a word I did n't know and thought ah leave it ! |
| 6 | Tiepolo no less , before the artist had commanded the fortune of the present day , but still a great deal of money , even twenty years ago , when Brückner renovated the old mansion and started filling it with treasures . |
| 7 | Atlantic Richfield Co. says that its new petrol is as clean as methanol , and that it would be ready to start selling it in California by 1996 . |
| 8 | I started doing it with pot , breaking a little bit , squashing it on the foil and smoking it as though I was having a chase . |
| 9 | ( After the war , when Collingwood was discovered by the younger generation , and found to be highly readable and stimulating , the situation was totally different , and the aging linguistic philosophers were obliged to start reading him in self-defence . ) |
| 10 | doctors they started putting me on anti-depressants , tranquilizers , sleeping pills erm , and you know , they were , their whole manner was just absolutely terrible ! |
| 11 | Like the Council of Trent in the sixteenth century , nobody quite knew what all its decrees meant until they started putting them into practice , and a lot of them , and I suspect a lot of Vatican Twos , need to be interpreted . |
| 12 | I had to start introducing her to people and places outside the home environment . |
| 13 | Well I 've recently seen that they 've started selling it in Sainsbury 's again . |
| 14 | That was what he 'd thought of every morning since he 'd first started feeding them with Mrs Wright 's grain . |
| 15 | " Eight they start getting us to bed . " |
| 16 | Well they 've started giving them in schools , you 've got your tab you 're y aim , it 's like in that piece of card with one one to ten on |
| 17 | Well , yes they do overwhelm you until you start associating them with services that are provided by that finance with the people whose lives are affected by them , and erm you break them down and obviously all councillors , I think , have areas of special interest and so you become much more familiar with particular areas of the Council 's expenditure erm rather than necessarily being very , very precisely informed about every single area . |
| 18 | I have an intractable presentiment that I will soon start seeing them in Tod 's dream . |
| 19 | How could Bob suddenly start explaining it to John , to Gareth Holmroyd , to the Editor ? |
| 20 | SunExpress , the company 's catalogue operation , will start moving it in July . |
| 21 | SunExpress , the company 's catalogue operation , will start moving it in July . |
| 22 | Why , I mean it might not be worth anything , I mean , you know , it 's a value , you ca n't , you ca n't start influencing them about money to early , because it 's the value benefit of that that they 're really looking at . |