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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
start .
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Well, when four boys get caught doing something they're not sure they're supposed to be doing, they don't know what to do or what to say, and sometimes they start talking right away to explain _why_ they are doing what they're doing -- which is what _we_ started to do -- that is we _started_ to, but all of us talking at once didn't make sense, so we stopped.
Shenanigans at Sugar Creek Paul Hutchens
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The Negro farmer started behind, started in debt.
VIII. Of the Quest of the Golden Fleece. William Edward Burghardt 1903
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Then after that, as the label started consolidating, Herb and Jerry left and everything kind of changed.
Mike Ragogna: Chatting With Cobra Starship's Ryland Blackinton, Plus Jimmy Jam and Jason Reeves, and The Real Tuesday Weld Video Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2011
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So then the label started growing, what acts came on board?
Mike Ragogna: Fueled By Ramen's First Fifteen Years: A Conversation With Label Co-Founder John Janick, Plus FBR Band Tributes Mike Ragogna 2011
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So then the label started growing, what acts came on board?
Mike Ragogna: Fueled By Ramen's First Fifteen Years: A Conversation With Label Co-Founder John Janick, Plus FBR Band Tributes Mike Ragogna 2011
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Then after that, as the label started consolidating, Herb and Jerry left and everything kind of changed.
Mike Ragogna: Chatting With Cobra Starship's Ryland Blackinton, Plus Jimmy Jam and Jason Reeves, and The Real Tuesday Weld Video Exclusive Mike Ragogna 2011
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No one, though, had explained to him the need to apply for a scholarship, and a few weeks before the term started he found himself with a letter of admission but no money to pay the school fees or even to get to Johannesburg.
No Place Left to Bury the Dead Nicole Itano 2007
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For Erhart, Sivarajah and Carol LeDoux who won a special election in 2010 and is finishing a term started by her late husband, Scott LeDoux, this was going to be an election year anyway, with or without redistricting.
www.startribune.com 2012
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The label started in New York and they have a history of putting out a lot of the downtown, avant-garde musicians.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mike Ragogna 2012
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The election is being held to fill the remaining 14 months on the term started by Democrat Joe Manchin, who resigned to become a U.S. senator last year.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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