Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [prep] the start " in BNC.
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| 1 | But manufacturers can sometimes move the goal posts to suit their own ends — or perhaps they were oblivious to them from the start . |
| 2 | When I postulated that the environmentalists might have a case , they were horrified that I of all people should express such a view , when it had been clear to them from the start that I was different from the others ( my sisters ) . |
| 3 | Members of TI will promote ‘ standards of conduct ’ , though they will not have to keep to them from the start . |
| 4 | Calling them " temporary workers " merely made their situation clear to them from the start of their employment . |
| 5 | Where he found the energy — Anyway , this poor child , only nineteen she was ( he should 've been ashamed of himself and him a man of forty ) — if she 'd only come to me at the start ! |
| 6 | The lack of even a hint of that attitude in Runcorn , combined with his remarkable equability , endeared him to me from the start . |
| 7 | Certainly the paradoxical view of ugliness as a special kind of beauty appealed to him from the start . |
| 8 | She has three spells dealt to her at the start of the battle in the usual way as described in Warhammer Battle Magic . |