Example sentences of "and he started " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he saw me running he thought he must be late , and he started to run , too . |
| 2 | I struggled to get him into bed and he started to do deep breathing exercises , which he knows I ca n't stand when I 'm trying to get to sleep . |
| 3 | He had been lightly campaigned as a two-year-old but had shown himself a three-year-old of the highest class by his two facile Goodwood victories , and he started a 7–4 chance at Doncaster . |
| 4 | Endill sat beside him and he started turning a handle at the front of it . |
| 5 | After that , Herbert sent John to Cape Town to stay with the Wrights during school holidays , and he started to learn to carve puppets properly . |
| 6 | The enormity of what had gone wrong struck him afresh and he started kicking the door and yelling again , but this time nobody answered , not even the snoring drunks . |
| 7 | He 'd got a small garden fork and he started taking out rough bits of grass from the edge of the drive . |
| 8 | His mother protested , and he started to cry . |
| 9 | Then he got to a point where he wanted to expand his horizons and he started making music that was far more experimental . |
| 10 | The knot looked crooked in the mirror and he started again , concentrating . |
| 11 | And he started playing through some of the songs from my club repertoire , answering my enquiring look with , ‘ I worked with you a couple of years back , in East Dean Working Men 's Club . ’ |
| 12 | One little rejection , the first suggestion of a problem , and he started to go to pieces , blame everyone except himself . |
| 13 | She tried sitting with her thighs apart in an effort to provide more of a lap , but was not surprised when Harry 's face began to pucker and he started to cry . |
| 14 | He said , ‘ I 'd love to do it ’ , and the next week I brought him over and introduced him to the cast and he started . |
| 15 | ‘ Sharpe was only about 15 yards away when I moved towards him and he started running , ’ PC Pounder told magistrates at Hebburn , Tyne and Wear . |
| 16 | Only in bed could he find any ease , and he started to spend most of his time there . |
| 17 | Angalo touched this panel thing and it just moved aside and then we were inside and there was an elevator thing and then we were in this great big room with a seat and Angalo sat down and all these lights came on and he started pressing buttons and moving things ! ’ |
| 18 | Not surprisingly , the rebellious streak in his nature surfaced , and he started to behave with studied rudeness . |
| 19 | Help with management skills , communication skills and language games improved their relationship and he started to make good progress in his language and his general behaviour . |
| 20 | Somebody gave him a brush and paints one time and he started in and got it better than any of them , oh my word he did . |
| 21 | He had a great appreciation of their visual appeal and he started the whole revolution of using photographs on their own merit and not merely to fill up space . ’ |
| 22 | And he started thumping the sand and wailing at the seagulls — real Play for Today stuff — and an elderly couple who were listening to a radio behind a wind-break looked quite alarmed . |
| 23 | His eyes slid slyly sideways at Carrie and he started to giggle . |
| 24 | That 's when Major , who was on the photo , he was Major in the army of nineteen fourteen eighteen M C Major M C , military cross well he took charge and er a chap off the shop floor , well he was an old contemptible of the nineteen fourteen to eighteen war , name of Bert he was made Sergeant because he was only one who had got any military experience , and he started with us on the shop floor in doing foot drill . |
| 25 | ‘ We should be getting back , ’ said Preston , and he started the car . |
| 26 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 27 | Some of the older blokes , they come out , and they started fighting as well ! ( laughter ) One bloke come down from the flats with just a pair of trousers and a vest on and he started having a go ! |
| 28 | After a few minutes , his breathing quickened and he started making noises that might have come from a monkey-house at feeding time . |
| 29 | McLaren felt they could work together , and he started raising money on another project , to be entitled The Great Rock ‘ n ’ Roll Swindle — a documentary history of how McLaren and the Sex Pistols had taken the record industry for a ride . |
| 30 | His heart seemed to be beating too hard , and he started to test his twenty-twenty eyesight by leaping with alternate eyes closed . |