Example sentences of "and started [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry crossed the road , passed through an ancient arched gateway and started up the drive towards the school . |
| 2 | Conroy folded his cap into his pocket and started up the stairs , then pressed against the wall as footsteps clattered down and round the turn came Freddy Pepper himself , big ears and horn-rims that were his trademark , in tennis togs above which his ruddy make-up glowed . |
| 3 | He called a gay ‘ I 'm back ’ in the direction of the lounge and started up the stairs . |
| 4 | They were all sitting on the stone terrace at the back of the house when she opened the garden gate and started up the path . |
| 5 | The stream in the bottom of the valley was spanned by a narrow bridge , and she squeezed the car across it , and started up the hill on the other side . |
| 6 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 7 | After they had cleared Ushant and started across the Bay of Lyons , the wind veered a point and freshened to a small gale . |
| 8 | For a tick of eternity , his sapphire eyes seemed to burn through her , and then he said something to the woman , touched her lightly on the arm , and started across the room . |
| 9 | Reaching the railway fence she climbed over and started across the tracks . |
| 10 | He swung his legs off the bed , grinning broadly , and started for the door . |
| 11 | The two men stared each other out before Peter gave a sudden exclamation halfway between anger and defeat , and started for the door . |
| 12 | She turned and started for the door . |
| 13 | Maxim put the camera down picked up a poker from the hearth and started for the stairway . |
| 14 | Leonora contemplated argument , abandoned it , and , without taking the hand , got up and started for the stairs on leaden feet , full of foreboding about the night ahead . |
| 15 | She swung away from him and started to the car . |
| 16 | He packed his hammers and notebook away in his bag again and started on the journey back to Fablan Fawr . |
| 17 | He joined the Durham force in 1956 and started on the beat in Darlington before being promoted through the ranks to reach his present status in 1989 . |
| 18 | I am deeply grateful to my parents for the fact that until I was twelve years old and started at the grammar school , I was completely unaware of class distinctions . |
| 19 | He grabbed her arm and started towards the lights of the comer . |
| 20 | Jinny went bright red and started towards the door so fast that Keith did not catch her up until she was outside on the path . |
| 21 | ‘ I knew it , ’ screamed the innkeeper , and started towards the door . |
| 22 | When he saw this he was further enraged and started towards the seer with an axe . |
| 23 | I left the station and started down the road to Harwich town . |
| 24 | Asik was hungary and tired , his knees were sore and he wanted to go to sleep but he got up slowly and started down the road . |
| 25 | He turned from Estabrook and started down the hill . |
| 26 | An hour and a half later , her script checked , she placed it in Miss Coldharbour 's in-tray and started down the stairs towards a late lunch . |
| 27 | She walked up a gravel drive crowded with large cars , past an old-fashioned wooden pavilion and two clay tennis courts , ignored the adult game going on in front of her and started around the boundary to the second and much smaller game in the far corner . |
| 28 | Faye hugged the navy blue , subtly patterned silk and started in the direction of the bedroom . |