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If you start to do something, you do something that you were not doing before and you continue doing it.
John then unlocked the front door and I started to follow him up the stairs.
It was 1956 when Susanna started the work on the garden.
She started cleaning the kitchen.
After several starts, she read the report properly.
When something starts, or if someone starts it, it takes place from a particular time.
The fire is thought to have started in an upstairs room.
The Great War started in August of that year.
Trains start at 11.00 and an hourly service will operate until 16.00.
All of the passengers started the day with a swim.
...1918, four years after the start of the Great War.
She demanded to know why she had not been told from the start.
If you start by doing something, or if you start with something, you do that thing first in a series of actions.
I started by asking about day-care centers.
He started with a good holiday in Key West, Florida.
You use start to say what someone's first job was. For example, if their first job was that of a factory worker, you can say that they started as a factory worker.
Betty started as a shipping clerk at the clothes factory.
Grace Robertson started as a photographer with Picture Post in 1947.
Mr. Dambar had started off as an assistant to Mrs. Spear's husband.
When someone starts something such as a new business, they create it or cause it to begin.
He has started a health centre and is looking for staff.
Now is probably as good a time as any to start a business.
The cost of starting up a day care center for children ranges from $150,000 to $300,000.
He said what a good idea it would be to start a community magazine up.
If you start an engine, car, or machine, or if it starts, it begins to work.
He started the car, which hummed smoothly.
We were just passing one of the parking bays when a car's engine started.
He waited until they went inside the building before starting up the car and driving off.
Put the key in the ignition and turn it to start the car up.
The engine of the seaplane started up.
If you start, your body suddenly moves slightly as a result of surprise or fear .
She put the bottle on the table, banging it down hard. He started at the sound.
Rachel started forward on the sofa.–'You mean you've arrested Pete?'
Sylvia woke with a start.
He gave a start of surprise and astonishment.
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