Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] started [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were giggling at each other 's pictures and I started to remember the amount of fun we used to have together . |
| 2 | Without close-ups and action replays , I 'm afraid it seemed an awfully slow game and I started counting the number of people in the crowd wearing red , and longing for the little athletic wagtail who kept hopping onto the electronic line bleeper to hop back again . |
| 3 | They went into the kitchen and I started to tidy the room , gathering the plates from here and there and scattering the remains of the food on the window ledge . |
| 4 | ‘ That bookshop experience really helped when we set up Headline and I started running the UK sales force . |
| 5 | ‘ We took her out to a local restaurant for a celebration dinner , ’ Mike says , ‘ and she started to take the mickey out of Diana , imitating the way she nods her head when she speaks . |
| 6 | the whole place was gon na come to a halt if anybody fired a flash gun and furiously Fred grabbed the royal people and I grabbed the Finns and we started reorganising the present so they could take place under the enormous great windows that there are in and nobody had said at any time a flash gun will stop the machines . |
| 7 | The elevated highways over the Louisiana swamplands were needle straight , and we started to snap the speed limit , just a little . |
| 8 | It 's called the Tripyer Shield and it 's a local amateur thing Eccles and District and to win it it 's like winning the F A Cup and this G M B team that we started we lost about three or four matches and we started losing the players , so when you do n't lock the doors and you 'd end up with about seven players and you 'd think is it worth bothering ? |
| 9 | The traffic lights were green and they started to cross the road . |
| 10 | The enormity of what had gone wrong struck him afresh and he started kicking the door and yelling again , but this time nobody answered , not even the snoring drunks . |
| 11 | And he started thumping the sand and wailing at the seagulls — real Play for Today stuff — and an elderly couple who were listening to a radio behind a wind-break looked quite alarmed . |
| 12 | And then I 'd I 'd had enough and then he started messing about and he started pushing the boxes down through my strapper then , course that messed the strapper up ! |
| 13 | For the first time Jenking was becoming worried , and he started to check the compass frequently and ordered leadsmen in to the chains to take soundings . |
| 14 | I do n't know what possessed me to do so but I started twitching the squid like I would have done a deadbait piking when suddenly the rod thumped over ! |