Example sentences of "[verb] running [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if the couple got to the city before war began , it was unlikely that they would get out before the trains stopped running to the Channel ports . |
| 2 | Some of the guinea pigs stopped running for a week after a competitive marathon , while a second group jogged lightly for about 30 minutes every day the week after the race . |
| 3 | ‘ So Billy Tuckett gets badly scared and starts running for where he thinks his old friend Lucy Scarrott lives . ’ |
| 4 | Ha ha and everybody starts running out the door and all you 're doing is frying some breakfast or something ! |
| 5 | It was wrong of me to come running to you . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , it would be naive to think that black talent is going to come running into tennis merely by stating that fact . |
| 7 | But as far as I knew , he had no other friends in Salamanca , though he had only to lift his little finger and both men and women would have come running at his bidding . |
| 8 | Mrs Gracie had come running at last . |
| 9 | A Mrs Dorothy Shepherd described a middle-aged man in a blue suit who had come running from the direction of Alfred Oliver 's shop . |
| 10 | She had contrarily thought that if he really cared he would have come running after her . |
| 11 | The Aircoupe has an unusual trimming device , centrally placed in front of the seat , best described as a screw-threaded brass plunger running in a guide , with a black plastic knob atop . |
| 12 | And if you stop running for two blocks , you 're a dead man . ’ |
| 13 | " Where are we going and how long will it be before some of us stop running for good and all ? " |
| 14 | Steven stop running about , sounds like it , you do that again I will , she says , you do that again and I 'm gon na smack you , right , come here , and she gets him and she whacks him in front of every body , did n't she Robert ? |
| 15 | ‘ Stop running from it , you little coward ! ’ |
| 16 | He practised running on the spot . |
| 17 | Every few minutes a shell would swish over the rooftops to explode with a roar in the docks ; and more Syrian troops — nearer to the explosions and silhouetted against the sea — could be seen running beside the harbour wall . |
| 18 | Casting flashes can often be seen running down the sides of objects such as bronze palstaves ( fig. 5.8 ) , which were cast in two-part moulds . |
| 19 | They can be seen running along the skyline before rounding the cairn and beginning the precipitous descent . |
| 20 | The man , who was wearing a rucksack , is thought to have been seen running along the lane by motorists . ’ |
| 21 | The black , low-reflectance , areas are water , and the Colorado River is seen running in a south-westerly direction from Hite Crossing in the north to Glen Canyon in the south-west . |
| 22 | This was a man seen running in Purser Road at about 7.45 on Friday morning . |
| 23 | Witnesses said a man wearing a long , dark coat was seen running from the Willenhall Shopping Centre in Coventry . |
| 24 | Two men were later seen running from the abandoned car . |
| 25 | Indeed , the ruined fence can still be seen running from above the top waterfall in the Gill to high up onto the side of Birk Fell . |
| 26 | Graham Townsend was stabbed in the chest , back and stomach … three men were seen running from the shop … |
| 27 | The police say their only lead is a vague description of a man seen running from the alley after the shooting . |
| 28 | Two men were seen running from the area , and one witness said they looked like the two accused . |
| 29 | ‘ Imagine running at one of those things , shouting and waving your arms . |
| 30 | I spot a pony and trap running along the coast road and point it out to my son who is interested in such things . |