Sentence examples for we started acquiring from inspiring English sources

"When we started acquiring these places, Penny Pritzker challenged me" to invent a memorable name for the company, said Mr. Nesbitt, who came up with the Parking Spot.

We started acquiring data by placing a group of high-resolution sensors on specially designed mobile plates (the land streamer) along a line or set of the lines with sensor spacing Δg being constant or variable (increasing with offset distance from source).

And then when we started acquiring grocery stores, cigarettes came, just the whole culture of the grocery store.

Already we'd picked out names -- Phineas and Beatrix -- and we'd started painting the nursery walls, started acquiring baby furniture and impossibly tiny, animal-themed pajamas.

So I started acquiring equipment.

Before long, I started acquiring yearbooks.

When Gottlieb started acquiring buildings in the 1960s, the city was slouching toward bankruptcy.

The Gazans, until now a faceless group, started acquiring the generic title of "terrorists" among Israelis.

It was during this period, says photographer Christina Theisen, that she started acquiring tattoos.

Mr. Stephens started acquiring shares of Citizens in August 1999, at about $12.

But then A.T.M. cards started acquiring Visa or MasterCard logos, allowing users to "debit" their bank accounts for purchases.