Example sentences of "he had [be] running " in BNC.

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1 He had been running in international events since the Olympics of 1932 . ’
2 He had been running , running as hard as he could to break his record for the five miles .
3 When he woke , sweating and exhausted , with his heart thudding as though he had been running , it was properly morning .
4 But it was more than a shock when Julian admitted to Peter that he had been running up huge debts with their bank .
5 IF he had been running a 100 metre sprint final , little Louis Stevens could n't have scampered any faster yesterday .
6 It was as if he had been running a high temperature or tripped out of his head on acid .
7 He had been running his own freelance investment fund with a few billion yen in assets .
8 But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy .
9 One instant he had been running flat out , the next he had stopped , whipped round to face them , and dropped into a defensive crouch .
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