Example sentences of "started [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleanor started hinting at an affair . |
| 2 | Baird started cooking at The Ritz on Piccadilly , London , under Michael Quinn in 1982 . |
| 3 | Then she started laughing at the top of her voice . |
| 4 | Naturally both sides got down and our men started swearing at the Germans , when all at once a brave German got on to his parapet and shouted ‘ We are very sorry about that ; we hope no one was hurt . |
| 5 | But , you know , if , if , if I 'd have put , when we , when we started to talk at the beginning of this term we had at the beginning a general discussion about what are we gon na put in land reform , if I 'd have come along to s to you and I 'd said well I think we should do this |
| 6 | This unsettled all aircrew before they even started training at the Operational Training Unit . |
| 7 | When they had gone , Maisie started to pick at the grass with her fingers . |
| 8 | One day just below their balcony a man had got out of his car and gone to the car in front and opened that car 's door and started shouting at the man inside , and then the car behind had started hooting and others had joined in . |
| 9 | Because you know they came up , they were full of the joys of spring , looking around , chatting to their friends and then they r started looking at the stepping stone . |
| 10 | Standard started looking at the possibilities of EAP back in 1990 when the financial industry was going through a period of great change . |
| 11 | He then started frothing at the mouth and had a fit . |
| 12 | From 1795 to 1800 he was apprenticed to his uncle Samuel [ q.v. ] , during which time in 1797 he started exhibiting at the Royal Academy , and in the beginnings of his career he was indebted in different ways to both Samuel and his other architect uncle , James [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | However , she still had not been fed and so she started to paw at the fence again . |
| 14 | It was then we found out who oc , who was the occupant of that flat then we started to look at the connection between and . |
| 15 | So any feature analyser would have to deal with context so therefore they started to look at the role of context and we 're gon na look at contextual effects later on , probably next week or the week after . |
| 16 | Doug Green was asked about taking part in the INSET course soon after he started teaching at the school . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the graph on page 44 shows that homelessness has become an ever-increasing feature of the Tory years , Homelessness began to hit home in a big way when the property-owning democracy started suffering at the hands of the repo-man . |
| 18 | He stopped , and there was a pause , and then someone started to clap at the back of the studio , and George , who had been sitting with his chin on his chest , impassively listening , looked up . |
| 19 | CLO patients who did smoke started to smoke at a slightly later age , smoked for fewer years , and accumulated fewer pack years of smoking than the severe reflux oesophagitis group . |
| 20 | The cuttings to take now are semi-hardwood or semi-ripe cuttings : young shoots that have grown this year and started to harden at the base . |
| 21 | He started gawking at the people in the stands when he came into the stretch . |
| 22 | She looked at Mairi , who happened to glance over and catch her eye ; and the woman howled and started to moan at the very sight of the wee lass . |
| 23 | On one flight from England , carrying some of our personal possessions , bells started ringing at the Customs Desk — and my carving knife was temporarily confiscated in case I attempted to hijack the plane ! |
| 24 | Karen , who started skating at the age of six , has received grants from the borough council 's Community Chest . |
| 25 | ‘ They reckoned without a DK with a death wish , ’ he roared , and started jabbing at the controls . |
| 26 | I started lecturing at a college of higher education in 1978 but returned to research and soft money in 1980 as soon as my husband had left . |
| 27 | I know it sounds crackers but we preferred it , " said one of the pit brow lasses who started working at the pit when she was fourteen and finished when the women 's work was abolished after nationalisation . |