Example sentences of "and [pron] start " in BNC.

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1 it seems to me that often , especially with this committee er start at half ten we get to about half twelve and everyone starts shuffling and think of their lunch and often not so much recently , but in , in , in , over the last five years there have been issues I think it almost left you on because it was so close to lunch , er and people did n't then want to have to break for an hour , hour and a half and then come back , whereas if you start at two fifteen erm I think it 's easier to go on till half four , five seems to be to go to this psychological one o'clock barrier , seems to er upset people greatly agitation and er their argument is th th that er that in the afternoon
2 Then the cards were swapped around and everyone started again .
3 Shopworker Marian Clarke , 27 , of Hornsey , said : ‘ You could tell from the warning that it was real and everyone started to run and the police were shooing people away from the buildings .
4 He wrote an article and everyone started asking for our cheeses .
5 He went away and I started to look down at my hands again .
6 They went into the kitchen and I started to tidy the room , gathering the plates from here and there and scattering the remains of the food on the window ledge .
7 ‘ My father retired when I was 10 years old and I started in 1980 . ’
8 I 've lived in Miami since I was two years old but when Emilio and I started singing professionally , back in the late Seventies , we sang only in Spanish .
9 I decided when I was 11 and I started doing drama at school , when I came over from New Zealand , that I wanted to be an actress . ’
10 With coughing , he opened his eyes and began groaning which was at least some sign of progress , and I started looking about to see how we were going to get out of what appeared to be uncomfortably like a prison .
11 ‘ I had never heard of the area when I met a teacher from there in 1973 but we became friends and I started to visit .
12 I was told it was 2.30 and I started home without blushing .
13 D. A. I used to be on an adjoining beat in Cressington Park and I started at the park gates at one side of the road and there was a policeman on the other side of the road — you would n't cross the road to talk to him … you were n't allowed to talk to the public — that was gossiping , idling your time , failing to work your beat — three charges straight away and soon as the sergeant reported you .
14 So Marcella and I started writing loads more .
15 After the initial strangeness had worn off , routine took over and I started to get used to meteorological work and enjoy it .
16 My husband Peter and I started our collection when we were expecting our first child in 1945 .
17 Yet the play did good business , especially with schools , and I started to relax on stage , and to enjoy acting .
18 Then Ron and I started taking James to Sunday School at the Community Church .
19 I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink .
20 Then I figured I 'd better try the same approach on guitar , so I put a really high nut on this old Gibson Melody Maker and I started using bottleneck on it .
21 ‘ Gabriel used to sing a bit and Mike Rutherford and I started to write together .
22 They said they did , and I started a climbing Rate 1 back to 500 feet onto 030 for the live run .
23 ‘ I went to sit in the library to wait for Mummy and I started to cry . ’
24 ‘ I jumped out of my seat , my headphones flew off and I started giving her mouth-to-mouth .
25 An Indian shawl went around my shoulders and I started toward the door .
26 Nearby in Coire an Lochain , Brian Davison and I started up Daddy Longlegs and finished up Ventricle for a very hard route called Big Daddy ( VI ) .
27 We really hit it off and I started working almost exclusively with her because we had found our own special form of communication called in ‘ Tinglish ’ ( a crazy mix of Thai and English ) .
28 ‘ When we won , we were unbelievably excited , we all ran outside and I started screaming ‘ I 'm going to be like Arthur ( Ashe ) .
29 So I went through this process and I started to read my thoughts generally , not to be too much one way or the other .
30 ‘ Three years ago , pondkeeping became big business , and I started selling goldfish and a few small Koi , ’ said Ken .
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