Example sentences of "[was/were] running a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One such find was the two Italian chairs they discovered when they were running a retail furnishing shop . |
| 2 | and they were running a surveying course in conjunction with the er Inland Revenue which now |
| 3 | they were running a correspondence |
| 4 | In fact , if it were n't for the program 's stunning speed , you could easily believe you were running a Windows application . |
| 5 | I I should say , I I s I have today , because it was things were running a bit late , written to the the three usual papers , |
| 6 | The two that immediately came to mind were running a charity and looking at whether any of her work was commercially viable which , since it is biotechnology-based , there was a good chance it would be . |
| 7 | He felt as if he were running a high fever . |
| 8 | Puts on airs as if she were running a literary salon . ’ |
| 9 | They were running a great risk of being intercepted and possibly destroyed , unless they knew what we are bound to suspect : that the English leadership was incompetent , and perhaps divided . |
| 10 | the hills the tracks were slippy with mud … the streams were running a foot higher than normal with flood water … a recipe for a race to remember … |
| 11 | I usually picked up my money on Friday evening so I was running a little short . |
| 12 | But if the British Barlow Clowes operation had been within the licensing net , it is more likely that the Department of Trade would have found out at a much earlier stage that Mr Peter Clowes was running a parallel offshore operation — first in Jersey and then in Gibraltar . |
| 13 | ‘ Anna was running a bath , recalling her erotic dream about Switzerland . |
| 14 | GOVERNOR Bill Clinton was beating Mr Jerry Brown in early polling in New York 's Democratic primary election yesterday , but Mr Paul Tsongas , who dropped out of the presidential race three weeks ago , was running a strong third . |
| 15 | The party was no longer trying to overthrow a system it considered unjust ; it was running a system it had constructed . |
| 16 | His father was running a small lock-shop in Bolton Gedge worked in the room above writing songs , many of which later appeared on the début album . |
| 17 | In the same period Brookside was running a story about the effect of unemployment on Billy Corkhill . |
| 18 | As I scrubbed away at my remaining teeth I reflected upon the number of obituaries of men in their early sixties which I 'd read in The Times over the course of the past few weeks , and I wondered whether the Great Reaper was running a special line in the age group for some divine , mysterious end , and if so , I thought , I might be next , and then they 'd be sorry . |
| 19 | Great-Grandfather was running a farm at the same time , so he must have been a very busy man . |
| 20 | Walter Friedman , who was running a hostel in London and who himself just managed to avoid internment , points out : |
| 21 | It was while I was attending Sally Carmichael 's dancing class that I accidentally entered a beauty contest — the local Working Men 's Club where we practised was running a ‘ Queen of Sheffield Working Men 's Clubs ’ contest . |
| 22 | She was running a milliner 's shop in the Market Place as early as 1822 , thence to King Street , along from the Three Swans Inn and the infant school , followed by a brief spell in Cheap Street , where she was paying a rate of 9d. and an additional amount for ‘ Stocks ’ by virtue of her fleeting partnership with someone called Grant . |
| 23 | George Benjamin Coaffee , a dyer , had previously shared 4 Brays Buildings with William Bolding , a fringe manufacturer ; later , in 1851 , George Cowton was running a milliner 's business there with three assistants . |
| 24 | Marigold was running a bath , stepping into the water . |
| 25 | No wonder she was running a temperature ! |
| 26 | Oldham 's classy defender was told to stay at home after phoning Boundary Park to say he was running a temperature of 102 . |
| 27 | About three years ago I was running a workshop for students training to be secondary teachers at the Institute of Education in London , something I and colleagues have been doing annually for the last ten years or so . |
| 28 | TP280 , a Mk.XVIII , a Griffon-powered machine , longer and much heavier than the ‘ lX TE566 , was running a little behind schedule and perilously close to the show deadline . |
| 29 | Because of the shortage of raw materials the government was running a propaganda campaign to persuade women to wear tampons during menstruation . |
| 30 | He put his hand on my forehead as if I was running a fever . |