Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been run " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She knew , although she did not know for quite how long , she had been running aimlessly . |
| 6 | She felt as though she had been running forever . |
| 7 | She was breathing hard as if she had been running . |
| 8 | She felt quite weak and breathless , as though she had been running . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had been sending in listings , even reports , on the gigs they had been running in Birmingham . |
| 11 | Since their mother 's death it had been run by Maggie , with bits of help from Mona and Sheila . |
| 12 | It had been run nose-first into the boat house where it lay like a huge , sleek beast in an undersized pen , the deep V of the forward end tucked under the gallery on which the three of them were standing . |
| 13 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 14 | Most of this made its way to the government , so that by February 1797 it had been run down to less than a sixth of this level . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It had been running on unheard for some time , in any case . |
| 18 | Fagin had told Oliver how ungrateful he had been to run away . |
| 19 | He had been running in international events since the Olympics of 1932 . ’ |
| 20 | He had been running , running as hard as he could to break his record for the five miles . |
| 21 | When he woke , sweating and exhausted , with his heart thudding as though he had been running , it was properly morning . |
| 22 | But it was more than a shock when Julian admitted to Peter that he had been running up huge debts with their bank . |
| 23 | IF he had been running a 100 metre sprint final , little Louis Stevens could n't have scampered any faster yesterday . |
| 24 | It was as if he had been running a high temperature or tripped out of his head on acid . |
| 25 | He had been running his own freelance investment fund with a few billion yen in assets . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | One instant he had been running flat out , the next he had stopped , whipped round to face them , and dropped into a defensive crouch . |