I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a computer starts up/boots up
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My computer takes ages to start up in the morning.
a starting point
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The following recipes are a good starting point for making your own bread.
auspicious start/beginning
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Saccani’s excellent recording is an auspicious start to what promises to be a distinguished musical career.
begin/start a journey
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He began the journey home across London.
begin/start construction
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Developers are planning to begin construction on a new housing project.
begin/start out on/start a career
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Jacobson started his banking career in 1990.
begin/start out on/start a career
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Jacobson started his banking career in 1990.
begin/start proceedings ( also institute proceedings formal )
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They threatened to begin legal proceedings against him.
begin/start to laugh
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He suddenly began to laugh.
doomed from the start
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The plan was doomed from the start .
do/start/finish a PhD
false start
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After several false starts, the concert finally began.
from start to finish (= from the beginning until the end )
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The day was a disaster from start to finish .
give sb/get/have a head start
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Give your children a head start by sending them to nursery school.
got off to a flying start
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The appeal has got off to a flying start , with over £200,000 raised in the first week.
head start
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Give your children a head start by sending them to nursery school.
inauspicious start
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an inauspicious start
it starts raining/it starts to rain
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It had started to rain again.
it starts raining/it starts to rain
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It had started to rain again.
make a fresh start
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I hope Jim and I can get back together and make a fresh start .
negotiations start
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Peace negotiations started last week.
prices start from £200/$300 etc
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Ticket prices start from £39.00.
rocky start
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Rangers got off to a rocky start this season.
set up/start up in business
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The bank gave me a loan to help me set up in business.
set up/start/form a company
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Two years later he started his own software company.
signal the start/beginning/end of sth
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the lengthening days that signal the end of winter
standing start
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The runners set off from a standing start .
start a collection
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I think I might start a stamp collection.
start a fight
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They started a fight in the crowded bar.
start a fire
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The fire may have been started by a cigarette.
start a friendship
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Their friendship started after they met at a conference.
start a group
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Ben and some friends started a rock group at school.
start a trend
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The young started a trend toward living in the downtown area.
start afresh
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He moved to America to start afresh .
start at the beginning (= start a story or activity at the first part )
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Just start at the beginning and tell us exactly what happened.
start school
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Children in Britain start school when they are five.
start the day (= do something at the beginning of a day )
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You should start the day with a good breakfast.
start university ( also enter university formal )
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Some people take a year off before they start university.
start up/boot up a computer (= make it start working )
start work
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He started work as a trainee accountant.
start/begin a relationship
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She is in no hurry to start another relationship.
start/begin to cry
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She suddenly started to cry.
start/cause an argument
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He was deliberately trying to start an argument.
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Money often causes arguments.
started at the bottom (= in a low position in a company )
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Higgins had started at the bottom and worked his way up to become managing director.
started snowing
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It started snowing around five.
start/finish your homework
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You're not going out until you've finished your homework.
start...from scratch
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We had to start again from scratch .
starting blocks
starting gate
starting line-up (= the players who begin the game )
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This was his first match in the starting line-up .
starting line
starting point
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The article provides a starting point for discussion.
starting price
starting salary (= the salary someone gets when they start a job )
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The starting salary for a hotel manager is $26,400.
start/light a fire
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It was too damp to light a fire.
start/set up a business
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When you’re starting a business, you have to work longer hours.
switch on/turn on/start an engine
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I fastened my seat belt and turned on the engine.
the beginning/start of a chapter
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His character is introduced at the beginning of the first chapter.
the beginning/start of term
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The beginning of term was only two days away.
the beginning/start of the year
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They moved here at the beginning of last year.
unpromising start
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Sales improved after an unpromising start .
work starts/begins
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Work had already started on the bridge when the error was spotted.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
again
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An enthusiastic committee is vital as the work goes on throughout the year, starting again as soon as one event is over.
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She Could start again and not lose much.
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So top up when you can, rather than stripping off old varnish and starting again .
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Each time he begins with a deferential tone, she disconnects the call and makes him start again .
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He sometimes fantasized about emigrating, starting again in Hollywood where his looks and talent might be better appreciated.
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He had stopped guessing a long time ago, and he decided not to start again now.
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So you'd better borrow another gram and start again .
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Once it was stopped they preferred it not to start again .
already
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Mr Wilson said Nerco had already started disposing of the gold and silver operations.
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If you already started the document and saved it on the disk, recall it for editing or addition.
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She had already started to retreat into eating when she felt upset.
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But the trend that I see for the next decade has already started .
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Two people living near the pit had written to the council expressing concern the changes had already started .
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But dealers are already starting to run low on a handful of more popular models.
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Similar trials have already started in Britain, where the vaccine was developed, and early results show no complications.
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He had already started to turn into his driveway, but now he paused.
off
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We were determined not to start off with a mortgage round our necks if we could possibly avoid it.
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It had started off a clear February day.
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No audience wants to start off with blunders.
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Crisp and dry, the wine starts off slowly but builds to an impressive finish.
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We had started off in grand style, rattling right round the station plaza with a great tooting of horns.
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It started off fantastic, with the warmest welcome anyone could imagine from Yuri and Yuri.
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After making his plans for the safekeeping of funds in several banks he started off on his travels once again.
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I started off by drawing the twigs and winter buds that I collected yesterday.
out
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I sent my luggage on by train and after lunch, I started out on foot.
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They had started out with 700 gallons of fuel.
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As a consequence, the government starts out with a legitimacy based on the will of the people.
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The adaptive technologies that cOmputers bring us started Out as huge, conspicuous, and centralized.
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After all, they started out from the same nest of opportunities as the rats who are now fatter.
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After starting out in vaudeville shows, Burns rose to fame with his wife in radio and television programs.
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I hadn't been in a very good mood when I started out on this journey.
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I always start out with one or two pieces I really want to play.
■ NOUN
business
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You're just starting your farming business .
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But there are other inexpensive ways to get started in business too.
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Like how he started his business empire, where the money came from.
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Another person I knew started a retail business , selling electrical goods, in a small rented shop.
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Should I go out on my own and start a business , or would the insecurity be unbearable?
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The average time to start a business is fIve years.
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The company has produced nearly 100 models and 500,000 units since Norman Mordaunt and Rodney Short started the business back in 1967.
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Would starting my own business help me resolve these questions? 5.
engine
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To avoid this and also to facilitate starting , engines are set to run about fifteen percent rich on the ground.
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He started the engine again and they climbed for several hundred yards without lights.
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Then I started the engine and drove back to where I had seen the Pan-Am Norte sign.
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Then the driver started the engine , and off they went.
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He started the engine as gently and quietly as possible.
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Sherman started the engine up again.
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She started up the engine and drove swiftly away.
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The weary town crew, unable to start the frozen diesel engines of their snowplows, were the only other customers.
fire
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Open fires should always have the chimney regularly swept, otherwise the build up of soot can start a chimney fire.
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Robles has confessed to starting seven fires since Aug. 1, authorities said.
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He hands me a billy and suggests I get some snow for water and a few twigs to start the fire .
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The family regrouped outdoors, after preventing the dazed Kong from starting a fire in the kitchen stove.
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Over at the engang they are starting their fires into life.
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Finally, we started re-turning fire , and at that point, the mech unit finally got there.
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They went indoors to find Donald splitting wood to start the fire .
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We were walking parallel with a tree line and started taking fire .
price
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There is no frontage included but prices start at £145,000 for a two bed flat.
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The list price starts at £3,945.
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Still video camera prices start from £500.
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Parsytec plans to release an entire family of character recognition systems with prices starting at £15,000.
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It's designed to protect and soothe even the most sensitive male skins and prices start at £2.45.
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It should be here early next year, with prices starting around £20,000.
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And with prices starting at under £40, they're cheaper than the latest Reeboks or Nikes.
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Now that it has a published price list it can start to take orders.
scratch
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As she explained, it was not easy to start from scratch .
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Once more, Machanguana is starting from scratch .
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It would be arrogant foolishness to ignore that experience and to start from scratch designing a stringing by ear.
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The trainees work hard, but they must start from scratch .
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So, in one sense I was not starting entirely from scratch .
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You start either from scratch or by modifying an existing module, changing colors, shapes and movement.
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The only way to design tastefully was to start from scratch , he had said.
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Some analysts believe Westinghouse decided to make a deal because it realized the difficulty of starting new channels from scratch .
season
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This season hadn't started any better with reversals already suffered at Arsenal and Liverpool.
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In the Dodgers' third and final intrasquad game of the season , Valdes started and pitched two innings.
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But soon the season would start again and the rich harvest of the oysters would be ready for dredging.
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The lockout was lifted months ago, and still the season started late.
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It has been almost a month since the team was officially introduced to the media and three weeks since the season started .
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All clubs received a letter warning them against organising practice or trial matches before the season officially starts on 1st September.
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I just told him he better bet back here before football season starts next August.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flying start
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David Currie gave Barnsley a flying start, scoring after 31 seconds, and Andy Rammell added their second.
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However, you also need to give yourself a flying start by stimulating the circulation through massage and natural herbal extracts.
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It's given them a flying start ahead of their Japenese competitors, who until now were the traditional market leaders in electronics.
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Racers, once the top team in Britain, will want a flying start to the season to reassert themselves.
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That nagging thought deepened as the captain came in first, and gave the innings a flying start.
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The appeal got off to a flying start at the weekend when the group held a jumble sale and raffle.
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Video-Taped report follows Voice over Despite missing 7 first team regulars Gloucester got off to a flying start.
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Well, it seems we have a flying start.
a fresh start
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Around six years ago, she departed for California to make a fresh start.
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Bankruptcy proceedings free you from overwhelming debts so that you can make a fresh start, subject to restrictions.
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Every week is a fresh start.
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It gives you a fresh start.
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It was spring, and he was making a fresh start.
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She decided to travel back to this country and make a fresh start.
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The prisoners welfare group Nacro, says every prisoner leaving jail should be given at least the basics to make a fresh start.
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Then make a fresh start on a more efficient brand of government activism for the future.
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What we need, it argues, is a fresh start.
an early start
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After an early start we were soon out of the city and climbing.
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Dennis excused himself, saying he had to make an early start the following morning.
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Everything must be ready for an early start tomorrow.
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Good judgement of conditions, an early start and a fast, efficient ascent are essential to avoid such torrid descent.
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Have you got an early start?
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Or get an early start on that long weekend commute, then catch up from home.
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Surely an early start on atoms and molecules must somehow be brought about.
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We had an earlier start than I expected and now we are taking more time to turn the corner.
be in at the beginning/start (of sth)
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But Effie Bawn was in at the start.
in/by fits and starts
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Electoral reform is moving ahead in fits and starts.
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Although change often unfolds in fits and starts, organisations can learn to improve.
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But civilization was approaching in fits and starts.
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But his proposals for electoral reform, now moving ahead in fits and starts, contain no such provision.
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He spoke in fits and starts.
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It has continued in fits and starts ever since.
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The conversation is awkward, moving in fits and starts.
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This means the machine tends to go forward in fits and starts, sometimes quite quickly but at other times embarrassingly slowly.
set/start/keep the ball rolling
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Ali MacGraw set the ball rolling with Love Story.
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And laughter is infectious ... so a little bit of effort on the small screen could start the ball rolling.
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Does that make a difference, or did he and others just start the ball rolling?
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He will keep the ball rolling.
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Her words started the ball rolling.
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To start the ball rolling, the government was asked to contribute £1 million.
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Volume 2 deals with general idioms e.g. keep the ball rolling, the proof of the pudding.
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Wolves play a similar style, and at times one yearned for some one to set the ball rolling ... literally.
start/begin anew
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Los Angeles was regarded as the place to begin life anew .
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And then silence again and the whole sequence begins anew .
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If nothing else, the legal clock on the case will likely start anew when it returns to the trial court.
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She was fresher now, more confident; confident enough to scrap the entire chapter and begin anew .
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The reaction would start anew , but this time with no way to remove its heat.
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The sun floods in, young plants shoot upwards and the struggle starts anew as the winners block light from their inferiors.
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We should at least be able to start anew with some element of hope.
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When this landmass begins to warm up that section of the mantle, the cycle begins anew .
start/get off on the wrong/right foot
start/stop the clock
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The clock is stopped when a player runs out of bounds with the ball.
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If you are bled totally dry and white, they will simply stop the clock .
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Some expend tremendous energy desperately trying to stop the clock .
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You start the clock , paint the glue, fit the pieces, block the cramps.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A 'safe neighbourhood' campaign has been started by local residents.
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A group of women in the neighborhood have started an investment club.
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Adding acid to the test tube starts a chemical process which leads to the formation of crystals.
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Halfway through the performance, she started to feel a little faint.
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Have you started that book yet?
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I'm starting a new job next week.
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I've just started learning German.
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Investigators still aren't sure what started the fire.
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It is thought that the avalanche was started by a small rock-fall on the higher slopes.
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It sounds like an exciting job. When do you start ?
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It was getting dark so we started looking for a place to stay the night.
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Outside, it was starting to rain.
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The police have already started an investigation.
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The referee couldn't start the game because there were fans on the field.
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We'll have to start early if we want to get to Grandma's by lunchtime.
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We can't start until Carol gets here.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A.. We are going to start a trade paperback line in the spring of 1997.
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He could not argue that, if he was not allowed to start his new job, he would starve.
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I started my descent about a mile away and a thousand feet high.
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I think I was about nineteen when I started taking drugs.
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It was starting to sound very familiar.
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The 1.85-mile track would be lined by five grandstands with a capacity for 150,000, and racing would start in 1995.
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We have decided to start with the basics.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
bad
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In the difficult job of getting through one's life happily, she had made a bad start .
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The bold event got off to a bad start .
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From that bad start , many little rotten apples grew.
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It was the worst start in the history of sports.
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In an area with no obstetric service there is logic in this, but babies get the worst start in life.
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Three successive defeats, the latest at Stirling, mean Hawick's worst League start .
early
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Dennis excused himself, saying he had to make an early start the following morning.
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After an early start we were soon out of the city and climbing.
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Or get an early start on that long weekend commute, then catch up from home.
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He tells the driver that tomorrow will require an even earlier start .
flying
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However, you also need to give yourself a flying start by stimulating the circulation through massage and natural herbal extracts.
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Racers, once the top team in Britain, will want a flying start to the season to reassert themselves.
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David Currie gave Barnsley a flying start , scoring after 31 seconds, and Andy Rammell added their second.
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But this year it was Cairngorm, further east, which got off to the flying start .
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The appeal got off to a flying start at the weekend when the group held a jumble sale and raffle.
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It's given them a flying start ahead of their Japenese competitors, who until now were the traditional market leaders in electronics.
fresh
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The prisoners welfare group Nacro, says every prisoner leaving jail should be given at least the basics to make a fresh start .
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He talked about fresh air and fresh starts .
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Bankruptcy proceedings free you from overwhelming debts so that you can make a fresh start , subject to restrictions.
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It was spring, and he was making a fresh start .
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Yet we hanker after wider experience and a fresh start .
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It gives you a fresh start .
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Why not make a completely fresh start some place else?
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Then make a fresh start on a more efficient brand of government activism for the future.
good
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He'd made a good start but now he was faltering, and the focus of attention was drifting slowly away from him.
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The Bears had better start grabbing on to something, anything, as the outlook on the season suddenly turned very grim.
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But it wasn't a good start in the lessons of love, and left me very arid in such matters.
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McFaul is among the analysts who said Yeltsin made a good start with the Chechnya peace plan.
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You've got off to a good start , Deirdra, so keep writing - and reading!
new
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A new start , far away from Hugh, in this novel but secure haven.
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If you had the additional capital to go all-out for a new start I'd say it was almost a certainty.
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The tribal order remained stable while its members experienced a new start .
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That's what making a new start is all about.
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But it was a new start .
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The Lord told him plainly that entering the Kingdom demanded a new start .
rocky
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A fuel shortage got the holiday season off to a rocky start , and promises to cause further problems this month.
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Despite this happy event, the marriage seemingly got off to a rocky start .
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The rocky start was caused by traders who thought they detected a whiff of inflation in the air.
shaky
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He converted nine in a row at one point, after a shaky start .
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We took them, after a shaky start , to the cleaners.
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Their work together got off to a shaky start .
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In that context, 22-year-old Faulkner said the shaky start to coeducation at the Citadel was little wonder.
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After a shaky start , the president now gets a better than 50 percent approval rating in opinion polls here.
slow
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After a slow start John Campbell managed to raise a further £90 for the Fund.
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But the council got off to a painfully slow start .
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But Mercury is making a slow start .
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He has had a very slow start this season, though.
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Garah, who split a pastern last year, overcame a slow start to win the Stetchworth Maiden Stakes.
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And the work got off to a very slow start .
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The picture is one of a slow start followed by years of sustained rapid growth.
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In spite of this painfully slow start , today he is a millionaire.
■ NOUN
line
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At least that's what I was telling myself at the start line of the Bury 20.
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For obvious reasons, laser beams or submerged fluorescent wires can not be used to mark the start line .
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As I clicked my stopwatch at the start line it began to rain.
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Until the armoured regiment had crossed its start line , the armoured infantry would pause momentarily in forward holding areas.
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As the group moved at best speed towards the start line , evidence of the recent tank battle littered the area.
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The race begins with all riders on the start line waiting behind a backwards falling start gate.
point
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As it's circular there's a choice of start points including the main towns on the route -.
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Between the loch and your start point at Caldons campsite you need to follow a short section of the Water of Trool.
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Spitfire restorations to airworthy status have notoriously exceeded initial estimates of timing and cost, irrespective of start point condition.
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You can change this start point if required.
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The storm abates a bit, and there is no problem in reaching our start point .
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Go left here, along the valley floor before turning left again to return to your start point over the high moors.
■ VERB
give
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However, you also need to give yourself a flying start by stimulating the circulation through massage and natural herbal extracts.
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So give her a head start .
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Belasco gave DeMille his start in the theater.
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Our comprehensive range of services has been developed to make sure that your business is given the best possible start .
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Keith Tower was given his first start of the season and played a season-high 26 minutes.
make
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I should have mentioned that Joe Lawley and Graham Lloyd have already made a start with tree clearance.
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Necessary jobs are helping to clear up the smaller branches and making a start on repointing the bridge itself.
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We have made quite a start , under the seal of the Citizen's Charter.
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And it's obvious that he's made a start with the clunch pit murder; but that isn't noted either.
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Of course, these ideas are just a few ways of making a beautiful start at Allied.
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He's made a good start , now comes the big push.
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Barwick had earlier made a spectacular start to this day, opening up with three straight birdies.
mark
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For me their arrival marks the start of summer.
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At the foot of the park a rainbow of balloons marks the start of the parade.
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For obvious reasons, laser beams or submerged fluorescent wires can not be used to mark the start line.
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It also marked the start of a full-court press on the federal government.
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Tuesday, a groundbreaking ceremony at the bridge will mark the start of the first $ 35 million phase of the project.
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We are marking the start of the new-look soccer season with a super full-colour wallchart, featuring all 22 teams.
signal
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This signalled the start of the victory celebrations as Randalstown swamped the Victorians circle.
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I love the sweet bell that ends the round, and hate its sour, doomsday note when it signals the start .
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They use intonational cues to signal the start of a new paragraph.
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In fact, it is the greed that serves to signal the start of his entrepreneurship.
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An eerie blast on a horn signalled the start of the ceremony and the crowd became silent.
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Then when ready, they push a button to signal the start of their 40 shots that make up the first round.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a flying start
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David Currie gave Barnsley a flying start, scoring after 31 seconds, and Andy Rammell added their second.
▪
However, you also need to give yourself a flying start by stimulating the circulation through massage and natural herbal extracts.
▪
It's given them a flying start ahead of their Japenese competitors, who until now were the traditional market leaders in electronics.
▪
Racers, once the top team in Britain, will want a flying start to the season to reassert themselves.
▪
That nagging thought deepened as the captain came in first, and gave the innings a flying start.
▪
The appeal got off to a flying start at the weekend when the group held a jumble sale and raffle.
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Video-Taped report follows Voice over Despite missing 7 first team regulars Gloucester got off to a flying start.
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Well, it seems we have a flying start.
a fresh start
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Around six years ago, she departed for California to make a fresh start.
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Bankruptcy proceedings free you from overwhelming debts so that you can make a fresh start, subject to restrictions.
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Every week is a fresh start.
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It gives you a fresh start.
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It was spring, and he was making a fresh start.
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She decided to travel back to this country and make a fresh start.
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The prisoners welfare group Nacro, says every prisoner leaving jail should be given at least the basics to make a fresh start.
▪
Then make a fresh start on a more efficient brand of government activism for the future.
▪
What we need, it argues, is a fresh start.
an early start
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After an early start we were soon out of the city and climbing.
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Dennis excused himself, saying he had to make an early start the following morning.
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Everything must be ready for an early start tomorrow.
▪
Good judgement of conditions, an early start and a fast, efficient ascent are essential to avoid such torrid descent.
▪
Have you got an early start?
▪
Or get an early start on that long weekend commute, then catch up from home.
▪
Surely an early start on atoms and molecules must somehow be brought about.
▪
We had an earlier start than I expected and now we are taking more time to turn the corner.
be in at the beginning/start (of sth)
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But Effie Bawn was in at the start.
bring sb up short/with a start
get off to a good/bad etc start
in/by fits and starts
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Electoral reform is moving ahead in fits and starts.
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Although change often unfolds in fits and starts, organisations can learn to improve.
▪
But civilization was approaching in fits and starts.
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But his proposals for electoral reform, now moving ahead in fits and starts, contain no such provision.
▪
He spoke in fits and starts.
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It has continued in fits and starts ever since.
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The conversation is awkward, moving in fits and starts.
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This means the machine tends to go forward in fits and starts, sometimes quite quickly but at other times embarrassingly slowly.
set/start/keep the ball rolling
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Ali MacGraw set the ball rolling with Love Story.
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And laughter is infectious ... so a little bit of effort on the small screen could start the ball rolling.
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Does that make a difference, or did he and others just start the ball rolling?
▪
He will keep the ball rolling.
▪
Her words started the ball rolling.
▪
To start the ball rolling, the government was asked to contribute £1 million.
▪
Volume 2 deals with general idioms e.g. keep the ball rolling, the proof of the pudding.
▪
Wolves play a similar style, and at times one yearned for some one to set the ball rolling ... literally.
start/begin anew
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Los Angeles was regarded as the place to begin life anew .
▪
And then silence again and the whole sequence begins anew .
▪
If nothing else, the legal clock on the case will likely start anew when it returns to the trial court.
▪
She was fresher now, more confident; confident enough to scrap the entire chapter and begin anew .
▪
The reaction would start anew , but this time with no way to remove its heat.
▪
The sun floods in, young plants shoot upwards and the struggle starts anew as the winners block light from their inferiors.
▪
We should at least be able to start anew with some element of hope.
▪
When this landmass begins to warm up that section of the mantle, the cycle begins anew .
start/get off on the wrong/right foot
start/stop the clock
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The clock is stopped when a player runs out of bounds with the ball.
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If you are bled totally dry and white, they will simply stop the clock .
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Some expend tremendous energy desperately trying to stop the clock .
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You start the clock , paint the glue, fit the pieces, block the cramps.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A pint of vodka at eight o'clock in the morning was not a good start to the day.
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If we get off to a good start this season, I think the team has a real chance to win the championship.
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The runners are now lining up for the start of the race.
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They had an exotic meal to celebrate the start of the Chinese New Year.
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Tomorrow marks the start of the presidential election campaign.
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We want to give our kids the best possible start in life.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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From that bad start , many little rotten apples grew.
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From the start , the physical setting was an essential part of the Black Mountain experience.
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He's allowed just five goals in his last four starts.
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Only in 1993-94 did San Jose manage to survive a bad start .
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There are also no ligatures to confuse the start of the letter as there are in other letter positions.
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When we reached the start after a nervous descent there were no fewer than seven climbers ahead of us.