Example sentences of "[pron] had been running " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't run against Ben that year and I was confident of beating Carl and him , because of the way I had been running . |
| 2 | When , in 1975 , PNG won its independence from Australia ( which had been running the place since 1949 ) , Bougainville formally became part of the new country . |
| 3 | Such a strategy underpinned the demonstration project which had been running since 1977 in Eindhoven and Rijswijk . |
| 4 | With the same conversion , bus route 64 which had been running between West Croydon and Addington , was extended from Croydon to Tooting , supplementing route 220 . |
| 5 | For a start there were the Trumper 's advertisements on TV — a whole series of them , which had been running for years . |
| 6 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 7 | EC Education Ministers agreed on Dec. 14 , 1989 , at a meeting in Brussels to extend the Erasmus programme of inter-university exchanges , which had been running since 1988 , for a further five years from 1990 to 1994 . |
| 8 | As the shop door closed behind her , Miss Belle , speaking breathlessly as if she had been running , said , ‘ We 've been on the look-out for you . |
| 9 | Now wide awake , and breathing as if she had been running , she put her hand up to her brow and knew that the cold wetness she felt was sweat not blood . |
| 10 | Her lips were parted and her breath was coming in quick gasps as though she had been running , the breasts , looking naked under the light silk wrap , rising and falling . |
| 11 | She knew , although she did not know for quite how long , she had been running aimlessly . |
| 12 | She felt as though she had been running forever . |
| 13 | She was breathing hard as if she had been running . |
| 14 | She felt quite weak and breathless , as though she had been running . |
| 15 | Also at the conference were two Australian ex-professional sprinters , John Dinan and Chris Perry , who had been running some fast times during the Antipodean summer . |
| 16 | Lotus Development Corp has lured Cognos Inc president Jeffrey Papows over to its side to run its Notes Division as vice-president , a newly created post reporting to John Landry and June Rokoff who head the company 's development programme ; meanwhile Unix veteran Larry Crume , who had been running Lotus 's mobile computing interests , has been re-assigned to run the cc:Mail line . |
| 17 | His younger brother Fitz , who had been running on the ground , now took over Kendo 's role and chased the monkeys further , while Kendo followed on the ground , along with Macho , Ulysse , Brutus and several females . |
| 18 | It was not Selden , who had been running away from that hill . |
| 19 | The Employment Department took the view that the TEC wrongly paid money to employers who had been running their own training schemes outside the Youth Training orbit ; this enabled the TEC to meet its government-imposed target of training weeks . |
| 20 | Before she had come here , she had had her life sorted out and everything had been running smoothly . |
| 21 | These 42ft vehicles were sleeping saloons and , after they had been running some little time , some ordinary coaches 34ft in length , carried on six wheels , were built ; these had a total wheel base of 22ft , or 11 ft between centres . |
| 22 | He had been sending in listings , even reports , on the gigs they had been running in Birmingham . |
| 23 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 24 | It had been running at more than 90 per cent capacity through the peak season , and weathered the lean winter months to show a profit of more than £250,000 . |
| 25 | It had been running on unheard for some time , in any case . |
| 26 | He had been running in international events since the Olympics of 1932 . ’ |
| 27 | He had been running , running as hard as he could to break his record for the five miles . |
| 28 | When he woke , sweating and exhausted , with his heart thudding as though he had been running , it was properly morning . |
| 29 | But it was more than a shock when Julian admitted to Peter that he had been running up huge debts with their bank . |
| 30 | IF he had been running a 100 metre sprint final , little Louis Stevens could n't have scampered any faster yesterday . |