Example sentences of "start [v-ing] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When you arrived in casualty last night you were covered with blood and they started hunting for the wounds and getting the blood transfusion supplies ready . |
| 2 | One of the most obvious places to start looking for the existence or not of inequality between different social groups is the amount of income that people earn , since money is so important in our society . |
| 3 | But if she had to start looking for the owner of the Bentley who , she guessed , was probably somewhere in the hotel , she did n't have a hope of making it in time . |
| 4 | Jeff started training for the marathon in October last year , and was running 50 miles a week when he suffered a hip injury . |
| 5 | We started looking for the hole in the long summer holidays . |
| 6 | Ever since I gave up my job and started waiting for the film to happen , I too have felt like a gap in between things . |
| 7 | and finally next Tuesday the country 's top dogs … are in Oxford to start racing for the Pall Mall trophy … its the richest prize of the year … at the Cowley Stadium … the final 's on March the twentieth |
| 8 | He started studying for the degree with in 1986 . |
| 9 | The Arab states stepped up their pressure on the Soviet Union to halt emigration in late February after reports appeared in the Israeli press alleging that a high-ranking absorption official had told a committee on immigration to start preparing for the arrival of 230,000 Soviet Jews in 1990 , a massive increase on earlier estimates . |
| 10 | After all , Mozart was only five when he started composing for the piano and look what happened to him . |
| 11 | Importantly , it also gave Simon Draper a chance to start planning for the future . |
| 12 | I 'd never even heard of Killerton until I started working for the Trust , but when I was at Drogo I used to come across here fairly regularly because of the regional office being here and because I was just interested . |
| 13 | Two years later he had started writing for the Criterion , since he wished to fashion for himself a career as a man of letters . |
| 14 | Before you start looking for the file , you know what the file name is . |
| 15 | Well you start going for the paper and seeing how you like walking right under the ! |
| 16 | So right , you get the water meter in , you then start paying for the water , you get a bill between hundred and seventy to two hundred quid a year . |
| 17 | so we start paying for the mortgage when the contracts are exchanged ? |
| 18 | OSF which is said to have already started coding for the GAIA specification , has slated the middle of next year to deliver the first snapshots of the specification . |
| 19 | You 've learned there 's no hope with one-night standers , so simply say thanks for the meal , but no thanks when they start asking for the afters . |
| 20 | The twenties had not quite started roaring for the Clydesiders . |
| 21 | Sarah 's arms and legs were getting thinner every day , and the rag mat she 'd started making for the hearth became too heavy to have on her lap . |
| 22 | ‘ After London , I 'll go to train for a while in Boulder in the United States and start preparing for the Olympics . ’ |
| 23 | He supposed he had better start reading for the Bar , quick and easy . |
| 24 | The court decided that victims of art thefts should be protected against the usual requirement in civil cases that the owner must make some effort to recover stolen goods within three years ; it ruled that the clock does not start ticking for the statute of limitations until the victim locates the stolen artworks and asks for their return . |