Example sentences of "he had been run " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fagin had told Oliver how ungrateful he had been to run away . |
| 2 | He had been running in international events since the Olympics of 1932 . ’ |
| 3 | He had been running , running as hard as he could to break his record for the five miles . |
| 4 | When he woke , sweating and exhausted , with his heart thudding as though he had been running , it was properly morning . |
| 5 | But it was more than a shock when Julian admitted to Peter that he had been running up huge debts with their bank . |
| 6 | IF he had been running a 100 metre sprint final , little Louis Stevens could n't have scampered any faster yesterday . |
| 7 | It was as if he had been running a high temperature or tripped out of his head on acid . |
| 8 | He had been running his own freelance investment fund with a few billion yen in assets . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One instant he had been running flat out , the next he had stopped , whipped round to face them , and dropped into a defensive crouch . |