Example sentences of "[was/were] running [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Figures were running around in chaos . |
| 2 | I came down here because they were running out of work in Scotland initially . |
| 3 | I thought we were running out of time . |
| 4 | And then we changed things like the name because we found somebody 's name in all these words , somebody , and we just sellotaped it down , and at the end when we were running out of time , and we did about three times have a look at the time , we did change the script slightly to fit the words that we 'd found so we had responsibilities instead of , I do n't know what it was , but instead of another words , just because we 'd found it . |
| 5 | This event had two consequences : the German submarines stationed off Scapa Flow , with the task of harassing Jellicoe when he put to sea , were running out of fuel ; and , on the new date set for sailing — 31 May — strong winds prevented Zeppelins from reconnoitring ahead of the High Seas Fleet . |
| 6 | Before Mr Boutros-Ghali 's announcement , Red Cross officials in Sarajevo said the city 's soup kitchens would begin closing at the weekend because they were running out of food . |
| 7 | He was running away from help . |
| 8 | She was running away from home . |
| 9 | You say you met my daughter on the train to Boston , that she was running away from home , that she ended up on your doorstep when her brother refused to house her ? ’ |
| 10 | And suddenly that cold void deep within her was running over with warmth and happiness . |
| 11 | where the sea was running backwards like mercury |
| 12 | ‘ After a month in hiding he was running out of money , ’ explains Wendy . |
| 13 | She 'd been there two days and was running out of money . |
| 14 | Melissa was running out of patience . |
| 15 | When it seemed he was running out of support , Jason Little suddenly appeared inside him to take the scoring pass . |
| 16 | Its Keynesian ethos was running out of steam . |
| 17 | At dawn one spring morning a heavily loaded freight train , headed by a pre-war 2 — 8 — 0 locomotive , was running out of steam owing to a badly clinkered fire-bed as it approached Brook End signal box . |
| 18 | Maybe my imagination was running out of control , but the weather , Gómez , the pass ahead , everything became distorted and magnified in my mind . |
| 19 | Bradshaw knew he was running out of energy . |
| 20 | Then Tallis realized that Holly-jack was running out of fear . |
| 21 | And he was running out of fuel for the fire . |
| 22 | This position received support from an emerging environmental movement and an influential new report — Limits to Growth from the Club of Rome — which warned that the world was running out of oil and almost everything else . |
| 23 | ‘ I was running out of time to do anything else , ’ said Ms Hinchliffe , who has heard the safety bumps could be in place by spring . |
| 24 | Major 's ex example was rather , was rather a good one because he was running out of time . |
| 25 | The government was running out of time . |
| 26 | He was running out of time . |
| 27 | She was running out of time and courage as it was , she admitted as she leaned into the wardrobe , searching for a pair of navy espadrilles . |
| 28 | Parish Council chairman Peter Foster yesterday said so many people were booking their plots the village was running out of burial space . |
| 29 | In January this year it emerged that the sometime property dealer and owner of the Mountain Tortoise Gallery in Tokyo was running late on payment to Sotheby 's for a Picasso and a de Kooning , both of which he had bought at auctions in New York the previous November . |
| 30 | Dreadlock Doom the jailer had discovered the loss of his prisoners and , cursing horribly , was running back to Mutton House . |