Sentence examples of "se pone" in Spanish with translation "start"

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El bebé se puso a llorar. The baby started to cry.
Se puso a llover a cántaros. It started to rain in torrents.
Cuando me vio, se puso a correr. When he saw me, he started running.
Tom se puso a gritar como una quinceañera. Tom started screaming like a 15 years old girl.
En cuanto llegamos al lago nos pusimos a nadar. As soon as we got to the lake, we started swimming.
Cuando Mary vio a Tom desnudo, se puso a reír. When Mary saw Tom naked she started laughing.
Toda la audiencia se puso de pie y comenzó a aplaudir. The whole audience got up and started to applaud.
Le mandé un correo electrónico a una vieja amiga mía. No hemos estado en contacto durante bastante tiempo, ya que la última vez que nos vimos fue hace más de dos años y desde entonces no hemos vuelto a ponernos en contacto. Todavía no me ha respondido. Me estoy empezando a poner ansioso. I sent an email to an old friend of mine. We haven't kept in touch for awhile, being that the last time we met was over two years ago and haven't contacted each other since. There's no reply from her yet. I'm starting to get anxious.
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