Example sentences of "start [v-ing] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I started nagging him about money , about not having a proper job and no guts to get one … |
| 2 | ( After the war , when Collingwood was discovered by the younger generation , and found to be highly readable and stimulating , the situation was totally different , and the aging linguistic philosophers were obliged to start reading him in self-defence . ) |
| 3 | She started towing him towards the back room . |
| 4 | In 1965 , his friend Roman Polanski started telling him about a beautiful French girl that ‘ I would be mad for . |
| 5 | And when Benn started hitting him with those big shots in the 11th , the textbook should have gone out of the window for the animal instinct to take over but he did n't have it the way I had against Benn and Michael Watson , unfortunately . |
| 6 | He remembered one time he 'd walked up here , in May , after she had started seeing him in the afternoons and going for long walks along the canal-side . |
| 7 | When you 're bored bored at other times , let's put it that way if he starts doing any bio-chemistry at all start as , start asking him about the proper names of the systematic names of things and you watch him bristle ! |
| 8 | The patient had first become aware of the symptoms six weeks after a hakim had started treating him for atopic eczema . |
| 9 | And the first step is to stop treating him like a tube of toothpaste — something you can squeeze the contents out of whenever it suits you — and start appreciating him for the easy-going patient guy he obviously is . |
| 10 | He was afraid she might see him sticking out and start taking him for granted or make unwomanly advances . |