Example sentences of "started [to-vb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , you know , if , if , if I 'd have put , when we , when we started to talk at the beginning of this term we had at the beginning a general discussion about what are we gon na put in land reform , if I 'd have come along to s to you and I 'd said well I think we should do this |
| 2 | When they had gone , Maisie started to pick at the grass with her fingers . |
| 3 | However , she still had not been fed and so she started to paw at the fence again . |
| 4 | So any feature analyser would have to deal with context so therefore they started to look at the role of context and we 're gon na look at contextual effects later on , probably next week or the week after . |
| 5 | It was then we found out who oc , who was the occupant of that flat then we started to look at the connection between and . |
| 6 | He stopped , and there was a pause , and then someone started to clap at the back of the studio , and George , who had been sitting with his chin on his chest , impassively listening , looked up . |
| 7 | The cuttings to take now are semi-hardwood or semi-ripe cuttings : young shoots that have grown this year and started to harden at the base . |