Example sentences of "start [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | could n't tell you but er these cars turned up erm , there were n't no hearse and off they went and er course when I went up the garden to get some washing in Claire came up and er anyway she said er about Mr and I said well I assume it was him , I saw Mrs and she starts on about this dog barking out in the garden again ! |
| 2 | It starts off at zero voltage at |
| 3 | 4 to 5 is relatively easy and if someone starts off at 5 they do n't need any persuading at all ( attempts to persuade them may irritate them so much that they start to move to the left ! ) . |
| 4 | It starts off at some value here and it goes down until eventually when it 's done a certain number of miles the car 's worth nothing . |
| 5 | It then starts off on another ‘ rodent-run ’ , watching to see if it is followed . |
| 6 | It starts off with that . |
| 7 | It 's part of an education philosophy which I must remind erm which I must remind you starts off with local financial management of schools within the Education Service erm prior to local financial management County Hall was big brother . |
| 8 | Newcastle upon Tyne , a city of 273 000 people and regional capital of the north east , starts off with several advantages for community care . |
| 9 | Material which starts out at regional may also go on to be used on the national networks . |
| 10 | Suppose a system starts out in one of the small number of ordered states . |
| 11 | Then you started on with that high-handed act , and I felt a tremendous urge to tame your proud spirit , hear your soft whimpering sighs as I buried myself in you . |
| 12 | er er you were going , you were going well with the , the pension you , you wanted him and your diagram was good and he was going for it but directly you showed him the diagram then you started on about this er |
| 13 | I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ? |
| 14 | And Simon Phillips , when he heard the bagpipes , started in on this Highland drumming thing ! ’ |
| 15 | Well I think she could be right about it starting off as that , I do n't know . |
| 16 | And we got to there from starting off with fifty pounds between a hundred and fifty of them which was quite hard to handle but by making it smaller this is called cancelling fraction when you take really we 're dividing this side we say , well we 've got ten on the top and ten on , ten times five on the top ten times fifteen on the bottom . |
| 17 | In the strike , are we starting off with this stuff ? |
| 18 | Yeah , well we 're starting off round first , we have a drink in |
| 19 | These were widely ( though never universally ) held to be demonstrable by appeal either to direct awareness or intuition , or , more often , by indirect argument starting off from ordinary human experience of ourselves and the world around us . |
| 20 | At the market he started off down one of the narrow , clothes-thick alleyways , but we pulled him back and shielded him from the warren of stalls . |
| 21 | ‘ In those days it was a pound made , a pound spent , ’ says Philip , whose proud boast is that he started off without any outside financial backing . |
| 22 | Five five twelfths cos we started off with six twelfths take one twelfth away start off with six pigs and take one pig away got five pigs . |
| 23 | A half A half good and then you 'd have but we started off with nine twelfths so we 'd have three other twelfths and three twelfths is the same as ? |
| 24 | If neither Herbert Wilcox , Michael Balcon nor Victor Saville started off with much in the way of imaginative flair , they did at least know what was required to build successful enterprises . |
| 25 | We started off with five thousand six hundred and ninety one pounds last year this year we 've ended up with four thousand seven hundred and eighty eight pounds . |
| 26 | ALTHOUGH YOU would n't think it if you watched it , TV-AM , the commercial breakfast television station , started off with grand plans to offer viewers a little science with their cornflakes . |
| 27 | How many twelfths would you have left if you started off with four twelfths then you took away three twelfths ? |
| 28 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |
| 29 | They started off with two BMW dealerships , then in 1982 made a £3m bid for Derby-based Lea Foundries . |
| 30 | The prizegiving which took place at Apsley House , by kind permission of the Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum , and the duke of Wellington , started off with two speeches : firstly Vicomte Bernard de la Giraudière , who welcomed the prizewinners and other guests . |