Example sentences of "and start [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And every now and again he probably gets a shade nervous at keeping cash under the floor-boards or wherever he puts it , and starts spreading the load . ’ |
| 2 | Once he has succeeded , the female enters the nest site and starts to build the nest . |
| 3 | Lepine turns around and starts spraying the students in the front rows with gunfire . |
| 4 | At first Murdoch followed the Thomson path : no-nonsense colonial boy muscles into sleepy British business and starts raising the dust . |
| 5 | In the last two or three months before they leave office , they have an excellent opportunity to mend some of their ways and to start to take the construction sector seriously . |
| 6 | ‘ That is what makes them different from other student movements , since they work with the oppressed and underprivileged , making them more aware of their role and situation in society and helping them to realise the need to organise themselves and to start doing the work by themselves . ’ |
| 7 | RADIO is undergoing a huge surge in popularity and starting to close the gap with television , a report said today . |
| 8 | The crowd was still there , but someone in uniform was pushing his way through and starting to harangue the singer . |
| 9 | CAN you imagine a situation at a cemetery — the funeral procession arriving , formally attired people getting out of cars at a marked spot , but some of these well-dressed mourners removing their jackets , rolling up sleeves , unloading picks and spades from the boot and starting to dig the grave ; possibly with the professionals cum gardeners watching from a distance and gloating at the mess these amateurs are making ? |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't give any answers as to why we were beaten , but I felt we were turning the corner and starting to play the Liverpool way again . |
| 11 | But fashion , as always , changed and the short skirt fell — literally — from favour and started skimming the ankles . |
| 12 | But fashion , as always , changed and the short skirt fell — literally — from favour and started skimming the ankles . |
| 13 | She stood there , leaning on the phone table , and started reading the names incised into the wood . |
| 14 | She inspected her bare feet and started to paint the toe-nails . |
| 15 | More recently Lou has cleaned up his act and started setting the world to rights . |
| 16 | Her voice was firm and dismissive , and as she saw the beginnings of surprise on his face at her rejection she moved swiftly into her room and started to close the door . |
| 17 | Asked why Mr Clinton appeared to have stopped using the word ‘ sacrifice ’ and started using the word ‘ contribute ’ to describe what he would ask of Americans in his plan , Ms Myers said : ‘ The problem with the word sacrifice is that it implies nobody gets anything out of it . ’ |
| 18 | Liz Headleand stared at the scene with a marked lack of dismay , as Kate Armstrong knelt down and started to dust the earth off Giles , looking up to ask anyone who might be interested about the little blobs of white polystyrene that always seem to come mixed with bulb fibre : ‘ What is this stuff ? ’ asked Kate , ‘ I 've often wondered , ’ as she proceeded to re-pot a hyacinth with one hand while stroking Giles 's shoulder with the other . |
| 19 | Instead of submitting his organisation to the will of party bureaucrats , he turned it into his own power-base and started bombarding the party with his own initiatives . |
| 20 | I thought the man was crazy really but in 1966 I did develop an interest and started to attend the services … |
| 21 | Burun ran up the stairs and started to search the rooms . |
| 22 | Not that it mattered because the woman whose dress she 'd soaked turned around and started shouting the place down . |
| 23 | So I pulled to the side and I had n't changed a tyre for a long time , but I got the jack out of the back and started to jack the car up , and while I was doing it , these two ladies went , ‘ Ah , it 's Sting ’ . |
| 24 | Several heads were raised , and one or two swivelled in the direction of the doors ; the usher saw this , and started to hustle the army man away . |
| 25 | One day the woodwork teacher had a heart attack right in front of our eyes as one of the lads put another kid 's prick in a vice and started to turn the handle . |
| 26 | Asked again to pay for it , he opened the can and started to drink the lager . |
| 27 | She knelt down by Luch and started to drink the soup . |
| 28 | Dickon arrived , with his crow , two squirrels and the fox , and started pushing the wheelchair gently away from the house , and into the gardens . |
| 29 | Ell had smartened herself up and started to harangue the android about his apparent surrender to fate . |
| 30 | Leeds fortunately got their act together and started passing the ball around and a couple of minutes later Forrester volleyed in from ten yards after good work on the right by Dave White . |