Example sentences of "[pron] have been running [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 've been running to the toilet , five times yesterday , five times , really bad . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been running for several years but only up to half marathon distance , ’ he says . |
| 3 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 4 | ‘ Angel , ’ she said , ‘ do you know why I 've been running after you ? |
| 5 | Yesterday , however , villagers were celebrating a decision which they hoped would mark the end of another local controversy which has been running for almost eight years . |
| 6 | This new magazine is modelled on the successful ‘ English Civil War Notes & Queries ’ which has been running for several years . |
| 7 | Voluntary Project administrator Roy Montgomery is convinced the scheme , which has been running for three months , is a major success — and a lifeline for local young people . |
| 8 | The Milk Race , which has been running for 25 years , is like a wagon train as it winds its way through the country . |
| 9 | But the rehabilitation centre which has been running for 21 years could be closed within the year . |
| 10 | This latest development in a saga which has been running for many months represents a change of heart by the Saints ' board . |
| 11 | The worry for regular viewers to the series which has been running for 19 years , is that the ethos of the programme may be changed to pander to the larger English audience . |
| 12 | Take the High Road , which has been running for 13 years , does n't make the ratings tables because it is not slotted in a peak viewing time across the country . |
| 13 | Tommy 's Campaign , which has been running for a year , has raised over £2,160,000 . |
| 14 | For a start there were the Trumper 's advertisements on TV — a whole series of them , which had been running for years . |
| 15 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 16 | Such a strategy underpinned the demonstration project which had been running since 1977 in Eindhoven and Rijswijk . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ This time was a much more pleasant occasion , ’ said John , 45 , who has been running for the last seven years . |
| 20 | What 's the going going to be like tonight because all the snow 's disappeared and in fact you 've been running through the snow anyway . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Constanza has added a scribble , ‘ We 've been running into a rather nasty situation . |
| 23 | Mrs Buxton , aged 82 , plans to travel with the containers : ‘ We have been running as a charity for about 10 years and I usually go over with the donations to cities such as Krakow and report back on what is badly needed over there . ’ |
| 24 | He had been sending in listings , even reports , on the gigs they had been running in Birmingham . |
| 25 | A buy-in of shares may be the appropriate method of effecting a management buy-out where certain shareholders wish to realise their investment in a business which they have been running for some time , or they wish to retire , and there is a management team willing to continue with the business and become the new shareholders . |
| 26 | There has also been criticism of the Government 's shifting from a pilot scheme it has been running since 1989 , in which secondary teachers have been linking with primary staff in 76 schools to provide their specialist input . |
| 27 | Although it has been running for 13 years , few sites have so far been cleaned up to the EPA 's satisfaction . |
| 28 | ‘ In Basildon only 32 out of 8,000 homes were sold and in Scotland where it has been running for two years only 223 out of 6,000 tenants have bought houses . |
| 29 | It 'd been running at a loss for years . |
| 30 | It had been running on unheard for some time , in any case . |