Sentence examples for the shelling started from inspiring English sources

"The shelling started around 3pm," said Abu Jaffour.

"Our television showed how the shelling started, the incursion of Georgian forces, and so on," Zolotarev, who helped draft Russia's national-security doctrine in the nineteen-nineties, said.

It was early on Tuesday evening, and Aijaz Abdulaha had returned from a day in his fields in this valley surrounded by towering mountains when the shelling started.

"The tally that we have received from various activists in Homs since the shelling started at six this morning is 50, mostly civilians," Catherine al-Talli of the Syrian National Council told Reuters.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — It seemed promising until the shelling started: under a brief cease-fire, 200 civilians were preparing to evacuate on Wednesday from a rebel-held town near Damascus that the government has blockaded for months.

"When the shelling started more than half of the people in the house were killed," he said from al-Ahli hospital in Gaza City, where he was recovering from leg wounds.

But in the end, when the shelling starts, you don't get to choose, you just run to the closest basement.

Once the shelling starts, however, Barker falls back on stereotyped images — a screaming horse straight out of "Guernica"; boarded-up buildings "like black teeth in a smile".

The niece of one of the dead men showed the blood stains on the wooden floor where she said her uncle, Idriz Ajdari, 51, and his wife, Hirijete, were eating when the shells started falling.

He had been sent out to get sausages from the butchers when the shells started falling.

"I had just finished my lunch when the shells started to land," said Private Kun, one of about a hundred soldiers lounging in the temple complex between battles.