Example sentences of "start [v-ing] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if he starts coming the old soldier she can bung him out . |
| 2 | Oh he adores her , oh yes he wants her back , and I said , she said , I , you see , I know him , I said there 's a lot to be said for a chap that you know inside , know his ways and know how to cope with them , but I said never ever put yourself at his mercy , I 'm marrying him , and the house will be hers , you see , when there properly divorced it 'll be in her name so if he starts coming the old soldier , she can bung him out . |
| 3 | He returns to the same circumstances as before , to associate with the same peer group , and starts behaving the same way as before . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | They had boosted the strength of the signal they were bouncing off the troposphere and started transmitting the pre-coded programme that would override the telemetric signals being sent from Bacton to the offshore gas platforms . |
| 6 | The aim is to have made sufficient progress with these aspects for work on the 1994/5 Budget to start using the new basis of organisation at the end of this calendar year . |
| 7 | Ironically , Cadillac also started building the same engines soon after Leland started Lincoln . |
| 8 | When a stuffed owl was presented to experienced blackbirds living in aviaries , they started mobbing the mounted bird . |
| 9 | However , thanks to the efforts of Fred , Bob and a host of well-wishers , they have since been equipped with all the basics they need to start rebuilding the civilised kind of lifestyle they are obviously used to . |
| 10 | She may have misheard the word as dictated , but it 's much more likely that as she started writing the first syllable , she almost automatically shifted the word across to one she knows ( and can spell ! coffee causes problems , usually ) . |
| 11 | You started writing the new album , ‘ Secret Story ’ , a long time ago . |
| 12 | My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area . |
| 13 | In addition to this is the need to start expanding the mental horizons and to take interest in the endless intellectual sphere . |
| 14 | During the afternoon , it announced that it would auction a new stock later in the month , providing an expected further £2 billion to £3 billion , to start funding the public sector borrowing requirement , which is forecast at £28 billion for this year . |
| 15 | Heather Mallender started asking the same sort of questions you 're asking — and look what happened to her . |
| 16 | Some eels may then have discovered the richness of food to be found in estuaries and rivers and started spending the main part of their lives there . |
| 17 | Her family is convinced Mandy 's weight problems started when she started taking the contraceptive pill at 14 after the Rolling Stone seduced her in a Paris hotel.They stayed silent for eight years but were angered this week by 56-year-old Bill 's decision to go public . |
| 18 | ‘ Mother , I asked you to take him to a cricket match , not to start hacking the poor chap 's rosebushes to pieces . ’ |
| 19 | Albert started reading The Weekly Advertiser for cheap furnished rooms . |
| 20 | McAllister spelled out what 's needed to start plugging the 11-point gap between themselves and leaders Norwich . |
| 21 | He said Novell was interested in exploring the possibility of offering links to all operating systems and Apple wanted to start penetrating the corporate environment ; it was up to Apple whether to take the project to the next step . |
| 22 | LOOKING back , Offshore Europe 93 may be remembered as the event at which the oil industry and its contractors started playing the same tune . |
| 23 | We will have to start organising the grand raffle and Christmas dance . |
| 24 | Most of them will be supplied by USL 's local partners , it says , who are supposed to start shipping the first batch of user-ready code in February , seemingly an aggressive schedule . |
| 25 | As the company grew , smaller clone-makers , also building to IBM 's software standard , started trying the same tactics on Compaq itself . |
| 26 | The new arrivals are steered into jobs , usually pretty menial , and told , under threat , to start repaying the huge debt that they contracted under the misapprehension that instant wealth would be theirs once they arrived . |
| 27 | Er , we did it erm , er just after 1919 when er , er we started backing the white Russians and erm , before we write off erm everything the Communist er Government of er Russia has done over the last seventy years as being evil , what I think we 've got to be aware of is that we may once more be unleashing the forces of nationalism , which in 1914 , and I think of going up er in the period in the thirties very much lead to erm two world wars , and er I 'd like to know more about er some of the forces the so called democratic forces that are backing erm Mr Yeltsin . |
| 28 | Is it not time that he started backing the British car industry in the way that the Germans support theirs ? |
| 29 | And once you got started typing the main part of the letter , you were alright then ? |
| 30 | - People start using the curious phrase ‘ Indian Summer ’ if the sun stays out for more than 10 minutes at a time . |