Example sentences of "and [pron] started " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the cards were swapped around and everyone started again . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He wrote an article and everyone started asking for our cheeses . |
| 4 | He went away and I started to look down at my hands again . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ My father retired when I was 10 years old and I started in 1980 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | I was told it was 2.30 and I started home without blushing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So Marcella and I started writing loads more . |
| 14 | After the initial strangeness had worn off , routine took over and I started to get used to meteorological work and enjoy it . |
| 15 | My husband Peter and I started our collection when we were expecting our first child in 1945 . |
| 16 | Yet the play did good business , especially with schools , and I started to relax on stage , and to enjoy acting . |
| 17 | Then Ron and I started taking James to Sunday School at the Community Church . |
| 18 | I was about fifteen ; I made my first record and I started playing in nightclubs and I had my first drink . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Gabriel used to sing a bit and Mike Rutherford and I started to write together . |
| 21 | They said they did , and I started a climbing Rate 1 back to 500 feet onto 030 for the live run . |
| 22 | ‘ I went to sit in the library to wait for Mummy and I started to cry . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I jumped out of my seat , my headphones flew off and I started giving her mouth-to-mouth . |
| 24 | An Indian shawl went around my shoulders and I started toward the door . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ When we won , we were unbelievably excited , we all ran outside and I started screaming ‘ I 'm going to be like Arthur ( Ashe ) . |
| 28 | So I went through this process and I started to read my thoughts generally , not to be too much one way or the other . |
| 29 | ‘ Three years ago , pondkeeping became big business , and I started selling goldfish and a few small Koi , ’ said Ken . |
| 30 | One night I was working late and I started to need to jerk off . |