empezar

Era el invierno de 1989 y recién empezábamos la universidad.	It was the winter of 1989, and we had recently started university.
La verdad está dicha, nos empezábamos a sentir solos.	Truth be told, we were starting to feel lonely.
¿Recuerdas las conversaciones que solíamos tener cuando empezábamos a salir?	Remember the conversations we used to have when we were dating?
Pero los acontecimientos iban rápidos, y apenas empezábamos a existir.	But events moved quickly and we had hardly started to exist.
Nosotros empezábamos a vivir recién a las cuatro de la mañana.	We were beginning to live only at four in the morning.
Había pasado tanto que empezábamos a temer que no volverías.	It's been so long, we began to fear you would not return.
Como grupo, empezábamos a tener problemas.	As a group we were starting to have problems.
Había pasado tanto que empezábamos a temer que no volverías.	It's been so long and we began to fear you would not return.
Cuando quería hacer una pausa, empezábamos a hablar.	When we wanted a break, we'd just start talking.
No, sabíamos que empezábamos a perderte.	No, we could tell we were starting to lose you.
Pensé que empezábamos a estarlo y entonces el...	I think we were gonna start to be and then he...
No hubiésemos hecho eso cuando empezábamos.	We wouldn't have done that when we started out.
Así empezábamos el año, comiendo el oshiruko y el ozoni.	Thus, we began the new year in this manner, eating oshiruko and ozoni.
Nos desnudábamos y empezábamos a hacer el amor.	We'd get undressed and start making love.
¿Recuerdas el caso en el que trabajamos juntos cuando empezábamos?	Do you remember that case we worked on together when we first started out?
Pensaba que hoy empezábamos con un chiste.	Thought we'd open up with a joke today.
Justo cuando nos empezábamos a conocer.	Just when we were getting to know each other.
Cuando empezábamos llegaron personas de Venezuela, todos contrarios al régimen de Chávez.	When we started, some people arrived from Venezuela, all opposed to Chávez regime.
Ahora que empezábamos a llevarnos bien.	Right when we had started to get along very well...
Creí que empezábamos a las 10:00.	I thought we started at 10:00.