Example sentences of "i have started [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yeah definitely see I 've started doing a newsletter for |
| 2 | In fact I 'd started caddying a long time before that , carrying golf-bags instead of delivering papers or milk for pocket-money . |
| 3 | well we had in the bank , we had calor gas lamps and when the power cut came we had to have the calor gas lamps on , and er , at night you 'd get home and you knew what area was going off at what time and you used to have to rush round , I remember once , it was going off about six and it went off early , it went off about five instead , and I 'd started cooking the tea , luckily got a gas cooker and this was at Abbott Road , it started |
| 4 | I 'd started locking my shirts in a desk drawer every night , except that now I 'd lost the key with all my Ben Shermans in there . |
| 5 | Well , I 'd started going down the nick . |
| 6 | I decided to approach the Mental Health Unit and once I 'd started visiting there , I found I could work every hour of every day . |
| 7 | Er anyway as I say er I realized when I 'd started talking er that I was digging a bigger and bigger hole for myself so I er I climbed out of it and and made an exit . |
| 8 | I had started knowing nothing about houses , nothing about building , precious little about planning , and I ended up — although I say it myself — pretty well informed . |
| 9 | We had gotten to that section of the tune where it was obvious that we had played enough for the outro and I decided , off the top of my head , to start playing a song that I had started writing earlier in the week . |
| 10 | For it was with Mme Deloche that I discussed the little book I had started putting together in Paris : Cooking with Difficulty . |
| 11 | By the time I had started unpacking once more in one more Nissen hut , I was feeling really low . |
| 12 | ‘ Another thing is that I 've started trying to play real tunes , real melodies — straight from the heart , really trying to commit myself . |
| 13 | I feel a lot better though about my exams since I 've started revising |
| 14 | Right , I want to pick up on I 've started looking at your tests , the history of language ones and I 've actually marked only the section where you actually re-wrote the er , early modern English extract , and I want to pick up on that instantly , and talk about that and the ways you you , the way you can go around , no I 'm not gon na give you that . |
| 15 | I 've started thinking about you between times . |
| 16 | ‘ But things are so not now I 've started thinking more commercially . ’ |
| 17 | I 've started reading your column in the Sunday Express but that wo n't satisfy my insatiable appetite for your peerless wit . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've started furnishing it … |
| 19 | Now I 've started using coconut fibre which is a peat substitute . |
| 20 | ‘ No way am I worth that sort of money , and it 's annoying because I 've started getting begging letters . |
| 21 | No , you 'll have to clean it , I 've started taking the stuff off |
| 22 | and they did n't do anything for me , so anyhow I 've started taking two , they have helped a bit |
| 23 | I always take our numbers , do the number on my age on the it never wins , so I 've started taking another one |
| 24 | I 've started drinking camomile tea on occasion |
| 25 | As I 've started writing to ya now , I might as well ask you some stuff that I 've been dying to ask for ages . |
| 26 | Erm I 've started writing off , we 've drafted a letter to write off to different colleges and sort of I 'll write off before I do my exams . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've started collecting Gibsons : all the guitars I wanted when I was a guitarist . |
| 28 | LEFT The red-tailed buzzard that I 've started training recently , eating the leg of a rabbit . |
| 29 | Oh I know I 've started accumulating again . |
| 30 | ‘ I used to be very much of a guitar-turned-bass player , ’ he admits , ‘ although this past year I 've started listening to bass players properly . |