Example sentences of "[vb past] running [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Even if the couple got to the city before war began , it was unlikely that they would get out before the trains stopped running to the Channel ports . |
| 2 | Some of the guinea pigs stopped running for a week after a competitive marathon , while a second group jogged lightly for about 30 minutes every day the week after the race . |
| 3 | He practised running on the spot . |
| 4 | Salt said as Jess came running into the kitchen . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ I heard a click and then a shot and one of our cats , Fluffy , came running into the garden . |
| 6 | It was well past her bedtime , but little Nichola came running into the living room where her mum and dad were sitting . |
| 7 | And yet it may still be true that he came within minutes of Jerome 's flight , found the man only stunned , stooped close and knew him , for then knowing was possible , and killed him , and only then took thought how to escape suspicion , and came running into the town , to me . ’ |
| 8 | It was a nice touch when she came running along the embankment , late , fresh from her lover 's embraces . ’ |
| 9 | An hour or so later Owen was working peacefully in his office when the door slammed at the end of the building and feet came running along the corridor . |
| 10 | Philip came running down the stairs . |
| 11 | Will 's sister , Joan , opened the door , and then Will came running down the stairs . |
| 12 | One morning , Azmaveth came running down the corridor outside Lucien 's room to intercept him before he went to his practice . |
| 13 | She came running down the stairs . |
| 14 | Other nomes came running across the quarry floor , with Nisodemus in the lead , and piled up in a crowd around the gate . |
| 15 | It seemed a simple system when I got to know it , but wondered what it was all about , with chaps standing in different places and shouting and bawling where they wanted this waggon that was being pushed off , as he came running without the train they diverted it into siding , you see , sorting out a train . |
| 16 | Joe came running through the plastic curtains waving a slip of paper and a handful of notes . |
| 17 | She was talking to Prue in the wardrobe — it was Geoffrey 's turn to call the half hour , when Bunny came running up the stairs . |
| 18 | James came running up the stairs as she came out of the office . |
| 19 | The second man , who was tall and lean , came running from the glade in which the car was parked . |
| 20 | Sarah came running from the parlour , her face colourless . |
| 21 | A boy sitting on a wall fell off backwards and came running round the end of the wall a moment later saying , ‘ What have I missed ? |
| 22 | Charley came running round the corner . |
| 23 | He began running at the end of 91/92 season to get fit for the next season and things snowballed from there . |
| 24 | The Marines did n't wait to be told twice , but simply began running for the door , firing as they went . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , no , ’ he said aloud and started running down the street , looking for the car . |
| 26 | And he pushed past her and opened the door and started running down the street towards the War Memorial Square and Ebenezer Chapel . |
| 27 | As he did not look where he was going , the car 's near-side wheels started running along the grass . |
| 28 | We rushed out of the building and started running along the street , hardly knowing where we were or where we were going , until we felt we had put enough distance between us and the reception . |
| 29 | Holmes started running over the moor , and I followed him . |
| 30 | It was in Los Angeles in 1914 that some bright car owner first started running up the main street , picking up passengers waiting for trams and charging them a ‘ jitney ’ — 5 cents . |