Example sentences of "start [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that , if the tail of your model starts to swing towards the left , then the gyro must apply a correction which will make the tail move to the right . |
| 2 | The mouse blastocyst starts to implant in the uterus on the 5th day of gestation . |
| 3 | A fog starts to fall on the road to San Francisco , and the fans disperse . |
| 4 | A man only starts to worry about the virginity of his bride or the virtue of his wife when he wants to breed an heir . |
| 5 | As this Monday dawns and the debris of St Valentine 's Day starts to fade in the nation 's flower-vases and chocolate-boxes , some of us are waking up and wondering where we are , that almost-forgotten sensation of the wild-oats years . |
| 6 | Where the road starts to bear to the right , a surfaced road , with ‘ No Entry ’ signs , turns off to the left . |
| 7 | The sea worsens , the waves rising in height , and to add to the misery a sleety rain starts to emerge from the wind . |
| 8 | This starts to run from the date of delivery of the relevant return of allotments to the Registrar , which must be within one month of each allotment . |
| 9 | time starts to run from the date on which a reasonable person in the position of the plaintiff would have realised he had suffered damage in the form of the acquisition of a defective house . |
| 10 | If you follow the instructions for later Series 11 and Series III and fill the box until oil starts to spill from the filler , then it is three inches too full unless you have the small level bung out . |
| 11 | What sets this theme apart is the way Britten harps on it once it has emerged and uses it , in a number of variants , to build up the pressure on Grimes until he starts to break under the strain . |
| 12 | Once sand starts to move on the foreshore , which it does by the process of saltation , it will tend to be trapped by shingle patches , by piles of drifted debris , or by tufts of a coarse grass , Agropyron junceiforme . |
| 13 | Outside the breeding season they are infrequent inland , and the local breeding stock starts to return to the coast in late June . |
| 14 | They go round and round , and begin to vibrate frighteningly , so that the whole washing-machine starts to tramp across the kitchen floor , in a growing flood of hot soapy water … |
| 15 | The writing on a carton of orange juice may tell you that it contains a certain amount of vitamin C — but did you know that the vitamin C content starts to decrease from the moment the carton is opened ? |
| 16 | As we drove back we started to plan for the return to Backnong in 1993 . |
| 17 | Although I 'm starting to cope with the idea that the rape was n't my fault , I ca n't get rid of the feeling that something about my appearance singled me out . |
| 18 | It 's alright us starting to go along the road of closures , but some of us have been here through it a lot , little bit longer than others and I think we have got to watch what we 're doing . |
| 19 | As he shrieked through his loudspeaker , the Sturmabteilungen started to stream through the crowd , their red shirts now on full display , hitting out at all who stood before them . |
| 20 | The High 's guitar sound is gradually thickening up from their mod-ish debut LP , and they 're starting to sound like the Atom bloody Seed . |
| 21 | Almost suffocating myself with a minimum breathing aperture on account of the midges , I also started to condense inside the bag . |
| 22 | It was not until well after the war began that Iraq started to diversify in the direction of France , with the Mirage and Super Etendard , both capable of delivering the much-discussed Exocet air/surface ( AS ) missile . |
| 23 | The attack came as pressure also started to mount on the chairman of the BBC governors , Marmaduke Hussey , the man who appointed Mr Birt as director general of the BBC and agreed his tax-avoiding freelance contract . |
| 24 | As soon as she started to go through the bundle of letters , all Moran 's attention was fixed on the sorting . |
| 25 | But as I left my car and started to go into the house it was then that I realised I was falling under the spell of this Englishwoman who had been such a delightful and charming companion that day . ’ |
| 26 | The High Court in Glasgow heard that as the car started to go over the top of the steps , one of the youths pushing it shouted : ‘ There 's somebody down there . ’ |
| 27 | The constable started to go round the car , examining it minutely occasionally glancing up at the WPC to confirm the impression he was making . |
| 28 | I also understood , from little hints dropped here and there , that he wanted to get out of the country while his music was starting to impinge on the public . |
| 29 | ‘ Let's have a word with Roxie , ’ Coffin started to stroll towards the car . |
| 30 | Henry started to slide down the wall . |