Example sentences of "but [conj] [pron] started [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But once he started descending , it was a different matter entirely . |
| 2 | People complain about City prices and Leicester University class lists , but if we started printing all these digits even our most faithful readers would complain . |
| 3 | But if he started talking Buddhism at them , they may well have taken fright . ’ |
| 4 | Everything 's hunky-dory and I never hope I ever knock this , I do n't know whether Susan wants to hear this but since we started doing |
| 5 | At first they asked me if I wanted my mum to go out but I said No , but when they started asking me all those sorts of questions they asked me again and I said Yes . |
| 6 | Like when we 're doing geography , we do n't seem to be working , but when we started revising we ended up in two years with seven books , which is goodness knows how much compared with chemistry or a subject like that . |
| 7 | I kept this dark secret for 15 years — but when it started happening in front of the children , I knew I had to do something about it . |
| 8 | But when I started walking across the table to the farmer , his youngest son , a boy of about ten , picked me up by the legs . |
| 9 | ‘ This one wanted to do my work , but when he started telling me that personally he was against all pet shops and would like to see them closed we did n't exactly see eye to eye . |
| 10 | He was so overwhelmed and flattered that he could not argue , but when he started working on the ballet he found that the music ( an orchestrated version of Schubert 's four-handed piano pieces ) ‘ said nothing to me ’ . |
| 11 | The next day we returned to the Rovacchia with more food for the boys , but as we started walking towards the embankment we heard a woman shouting at us : ‘ Where is Anna ? |