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Discover LudwigThe phrase "promptly started to" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to indicate that someone began an action quickly or without delay. Example: "After receiving the approval, she promptly started to work on the project."
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He promptly started to fall asleep in the cab.
Then Couples, with only half a point to his name in this whole Ryder Cup, promptly started to hit fairways again, and carried on holing putts.
His colleagues, seeing his swagger and mindful of his tendency to talk a good game, gave him the match ball with the signatures of each of those who helped him score his first European hat trick, and then promptly started to tease the center forward about the bagful of chances he squandered Saturday.
Count Mihály Károlyi, chairman of the Budapest National Council, had been appointed prime minister of Hungary by his king, the Austrian emperor Charles, on October 31 but had promptly started to dissociate his country from Austria partly in the vain hope of obtaining a separate Hungarian armistice.
Unstable, and under the pull of gravity, the sides of this depression promptly started to collapse inwards.
A French doctor injected calf's blood into a madman, who promptly started to sweat and vomit and produce urine the colour of chimney soot.
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One day, her wish comes true, as Mitsuha appears to awaken in Tokyo in the body of teenager Taki, a diffidently attractive young man who promptly starts to explore his "feminine side".
Ann also gives Mark brownies to bring to Leslie, which he promptly starts to eat himself.
If the patient experienced a probable OBI reactivation (see the diagnostic criteria below), Lamivudine therapy was promptly started at the standard dosage.
Massasoit kept Tisquantum under what was essentially house arrest until the Pilgrims showed up and promptly started starving to death.
On the night of November 9 , 1989 a government spokesman named Schabowski went on TV to preview the new policy but bungled the message, accidentally conveying that everyone was free to pass through checkpoints without any approval--and that they could do so "immediately". Hardly believing their ears, thousands of East Germans promptly started streaming to checkpoints.
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