Example sentences of "i started " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 2 | Two years since I started on the big glass . |
| 3 | I knew once I started that there would be no going back . |
| 4 | I told her she was the first person to see it since I started work on it . |
| 5 | All of a sudden I started to laugh . |
| 6 | About three weeks after I started looking , I came upon an advertisement for a receptionist to work at a local authority office building , not too far from my new home . |
| 7 | I started to read newspapers and magazines more , and , for just about the first time in my life , I began to take an interest in current affairs . |
| 8 | I started the day after the interview . |
| 9 | I made my way up to the lobby with those final two words of hers ringing around inside my head , and all sorts of other doctor phrases started to enter my mind — people calling me Doctor Streeter , popular songs with the word doctor in them — and then all of a sudden I started to cry . |
| 10 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 11 | He went away and I started to look down at my hands again . |
| 12 | The shift was in fact half over by the time I started and I was n't really able to do much of any value . |
| 13 | Up in London , I started to sort out various logistical problems . |
| 14 | I started on my way to the West End . |
| 15 | I started to wander again , in and out of second-hand bookshops , and then into an amusement arcade . |
| 16 | I started to think about my childhood again , about my parents and my sister . |
| 17 | I started to feel drowsy . |
| 18 | ‘ It would probably be best if I started from square one , ’ the contact opened the proceedings by saying . |
| 19 | In any case , once I got more and more into the swing of writing , I started to spend more time at home doing that . |
| 20 | Come on , sweetie , what if I started getting it on with one of my baby dykes , what would you feel ? |
| 21 | I started to sip my coffee . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I started getting confused halfway through , but I was determined not to ask anyone else I did n't want another negative response to spoil the childlike happiness that the policeman 's courtesy had brought to my otherwise unrewarding day . |
| 24 | Being a regular to the attractions of the Continent and its sunnier climes , I started by skimming through and picking out a few of the relatively recent crags that I have visited , such as Ceuse & Oppede le Vieux : they are in — fine . |
| 25 | I started organising puppy parties for my clients a few months back , using a good dog trainer to co-ordinate the parties and a local church hall as the venue . |
| 26 | ‘ I saw problems coming for the breed and in 1984 I started a training club for Dobermanns and , more specifically , for their owners , ’ Graham said . |
| 27 | ‘ My father retired when I was 10 years old and I started in 1980 . ’ |
| 28 | The grammar schools once provided the necessary culture of learning , as well as specific instruction , for students from under privileged homes , as we see in Judith Grossman 's Her Own Terms , or Anthony Burgess 's autobiographical recollection of reading English at Manchester University in the late thirties ( some twenty years before I started teaching there myself ) . |
| 29 | ‘ The day my husband left was the day I started Gerson in earnest . |
| 30 | I started breathing hard some $15m before that . ’ |