Example sentences of "start [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will have to wait until he starts drawing his pension before getting yours , if you are his ‘ dependant ’ . |
| 2 | . When he starts bringing his bench and stuff down here Barry and I 'm gon na . |
| 3 | Claudia starts to clean his wounds with mercurochrome , but Tepilit stops her . |
| 4 | In my book the only time a manager should consider resigning is when he starts believing his own programme notes . |
| 5 | It is at this point that he starts selling his clients out of as much stock as possible , so as to release their capital for the investment propositions he will offer them in his next post . |
| 6 | Then he starts to loop his hair into an elastic band first thing every morning . |
| 7 | We 're on Sixth Avenue , puffing on a prosaic perfecto and minding our own business — when John turns down Twenty-Second Street , breaks into a run , and starts loosening his pants … |
| 8 | If the male starts to build his nest in a community tank , he will attack any fish which comes close . |
| 9 | He starts to pat his pockets , etc . ) |
| 10 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 11 | Gordon , who has already noted the novel view of Langdale spread beneath us , starts exhuming his camera from his sack . |
| 12 | He reaches in the bag and starts to throw his bread upon the waters . |
| 13 | The best Manchester bit is when he talks about still being with his wife — he looks dead guilty and starts feeling his nose in a very shifty manner indeed . |
| 14 | But he lay quite dead to her and only made an irritated noise and shoved her when she started stroking his arm , for he had got what he wanted . |
| 15 | He whirled round , stood in a kind of ape-like crouch and started to swing his arms in front of him . |
| 16 | Or else , possibly , the thallium was starting to affect his brain . |
| 17 | During the tour , Stout remembers that Charman and Gedge told Solowka to cut down on his drinking because it was starting to affect his playing . |
| 18 | She seemed so sanguine that he started to enjoy his leave and they all three went off to see Mona in Jermyn Street , who greeted them with her usual generous hospitality , very little of which was at her or their expense , but who had not seen Charles since his transformation from 2nd Lieutenant to Guardsman . |
| 19 | With a meekness that made her feel mean , he knelt down on the floor and started to gather his cuttings together . |
| 20 | She simply stayed where she was and where , four hours later , Brian found her just before starting to see his afternoon 's patients four floors below . |
| 21 | After a brief spell with BRM he started manufacturing his own Formula One car but with little success . |
| 22 | One day I was walking down Bedford Street in Belfast city centre and this bloke pulled over in his car and started tooting his horn . |
| 23 | The bairn started bringing his milk back up all the time when he was just a few days old . |
| 24 | It was always a bad sign when the client started using his own medicine . |
| 25 | As voice mails tend to be pretty large files , I do n't think Gav would be too happy if we started using his listserver for singing telegrams , but the odd voice mail between us might be fun . |
| 26 | Oh yes , ‘ Roland ’ — that is how we always knew him , and I was mightily confused when he started signing his Christmas cards ‘ Jim ’ ! |
| 27 | It seems everyone is waiting for Strach to have 2 quiet games in order to start ending his career . |
| 28 | " A gift … " he began and them hurried on as Patrick started to shake his head . |
| 29 | Joseph started to shake his head — when the club struck him full in the mouth . |
| 30 | He started to shake his head . |