Example sentences of "start [to-vb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It usually starts to improve at ten weeks and clears up completely by the 14th week . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ The ball suddenly started to swing at 90 mph after tea . |
| 3 | Gwendolen started to scream at this hard-heartedness , but suddenly stopped again as Auguste rose to come to her aid . |
| 4 | They all started to look at each other rather furtively . |
| 5 | And then I started to understand at some deep level that it is not only the dream-world one desires but the world one imagines . |
| 6 | The log file for my GIMMS job tells me that the job reached the head of the batch queue and started to execute at 48 minutes and 56 seconds after 5 o'clock p.m. on Monday , January 4th , 1988 and ended at 49 minutes and 15 seconds past the same hour on that day . |
| 7 | Started to smoke at eight . |
| 8 | If he hurried he could easily cycle to the barrow , make a thorough search , and be back in his bed before the household started to stir at 7 . |
| 9 | We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early . |
| 10 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 11 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 12 | Now what I want to do in this lecture is to finish off the er introductory part of my , of my remarks and take us up to the point where beginning at twelve o'clock the real part , the real er core of this course begins when we start to look at social theory . |
| 13 | I suppose that , as I myself had not started to smoke at that period of time , it was worse for me , just like garlic eaters . |
| 14 | If they start to moan at long , boring nights of inactivity , the bottom could quickly fall out of a tour that in cricketing terms has all the ingredients of being a huge success . |
| 15 | Improved facilities for cyclists have started to happen at local level , largely because Lothian Region now has a 3-person cycle team , the existence of which was fought for , long and hard over many years . |
| 16 | In comparison , our ears start to hurt at 150 decibels . |
| 17 | The neighbours thought him very odd , because he would start to carve at two or three in the morning when he came home . |