Sentence examples for had started to prepare from inspiring English sources

"To be honest, we had started to prepare ourselves for playing against a different opposition because the likelihood was that we would face Northern Ireland.

It went on for some minutes, ice spilling onto the carpet from the otherwise empty glass Candice had started to prepare.

The State Department of Emergency Management and Homeland Security has started to prepare an evacuation plan for the state.

She had only completed a few months there when, having started to prepare the family dinner, she suffered a massive brain haemorrhage.

The insurgency remains at the top of the Bush administration's agenda here, and American officials have started to prepare for Mr. Musharraf's eventual exit.

Many jai alai players have started to prepare for other careers, jobs that offer contracts that last longer than six months.

"We have started to prepare ourselves mentally for the Cup of Nations," said Namibia coach Bernard Kaanjuka.

Work has started to prepare the site of Britain's biggest prison, which is to be built in Wrexham.

Women expecting neither high demands nor low control at work during their working day have a lower saliva cortisol level half an hour after awakening (perhaps when they have started to prepare themselves mentally for the upcoming conditions).

In other words, Quentin had started to physically prepare for his death.

At the time of the escape, Kunstler had just started to prepare her appeal.