Example sentences of "was running the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Morton was running the British National Oil Corporation when Mrs Thatcher took power in 1979 . |
| 2 | Readers will appreciate that even if a combination of Sgt Bilko and the Roux Brothers was running the Cookhouse , with only £1.43 to feed an adult with three meals a day it is not possible to challenge the Savoy Grill . |
| 3 | So he wrote to George Thurstan , an ex-marine who was running the Drake Fellowship ; this was a scheme set up by the Prince in the wake of the inner-city riots , to give young people from those areas adventure training . |
| 4 | Angie was running the hamburger stall — I do n't think she has ever cooked so many hamburgers in her life . |
| 5 | Turns out he was running the place for charity ! |
| 6 | If North was running the contra war vicariously ( ’ from my desk ’ ) , the smooth organizers of the private pro-contra network and their rich , mostly female , mostly elderly contributors were even further removed . |
| 7 | By 1880 , H.B. Savory was running the mill although , well into the 20th century , the company retained the name of Savory and Sons . |
| 8 | After them , the mill belonged to a Mr Chapman , thought to be the man who was running the nearby Sevilles Mill . |
| 9 | The Shurmur family kept the mill up to 1800 , when a descendant of Thomas Shurmur , who was running the mill at the time , was declared bankrupt . |
| 10 | By the 1860s , Oliver Bird was the mill owner and by the 1870s was running the mill within the partnership of Bird and Bubb . |
| 11 | Then the mill was auctioned and fell into the hands of a competitor , the miller who was running the Upper ( formerly Kytes ) Mill at the top end of the village . |
| 12 | Rustenburg , where his brother was running the Grand Hotel , offered the right sort of opportunity . |
| 13 | Now , apparently , he was on the staff of Camilien Houde , the infamous mayor of Montreal , of whom it was said he was running the city on the same basis of protection rackets as some of the big-time gangsters of Chicago . |
| 14 | Whether it was running the Woman 's Institute or assembling and distributing gas masks , it was all the same to them . |
| 15 | Hence , when the animal was running the tail could have stretched back horizontally and acted as a balancing organ . |
| 16 | Within a week Little Chef was running the yard , bringing in the ponies from the fields , doing tricks for pony nuts , retrieving lost balls from the undergrowth , then running on to the field and dropping them when there was a pause in play . |
| 17 | ( Did they wonder who was running the machine ? |
| 18 | But it was n't an easy task because he was dealing with Kirk who was running the company and wanted to make sure the picture was made on his terms because he had a lot at stake . |
| 19 | She drove so frantically to begin with that it finally occurred to her that she was running the risk of being stopped for speeding . |
| 20 | I was running the wrong race ; I should never have been entered for it in the first place . |
| 21 | Gloucester 's success implies a more effective use of the patronage at his disposal , and there are some suggestions that he was running the duchy in his own interests . |
| 22 | He was presenting a lunch-time show ; she was running the station 's helpline . |
| 23 | If she was running the same company for Virgin , should n't she have some shareholding in it ? |
| 24 | A voder commentary accompanied the recording , but Rostov had switched off the auditory input to his chair so that he could converse with the Manchu technician who was running the session . |
| 25 | For the next four standard days at least , the Navy was running the ship . |
| 26 | But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse . |
| 27 | At Waterloo , the L&SWR headquarters , there was much to do ; many platforms had to be replanned and the rebuilding of the terminus speeded up , but Walker saw at once that he must entice more commuters , and his electrification of the London suburban lines , which was to be pursued long after he was running the future Southern Railway , was of lasting significance . |
| 28 | The whole building shook , and someone was running the sound-effects tracks from All Quiet on the Western Front and Hell 's Angels very loud out in the street . |
| 29 | ‘ It seems that Matthew was running the thing on too big a scale for the size of the town — too much stock of the wrong sort and overheads too high . ’ |
| 30 | concurrently with his numerous other interests Taylor was running the Grassington Mines for the Duke of Devonshire . |