Example sentences of "was run [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say because I was running around a bit I think . |
| 2 | He was running up a huge bill on his credit card , and he was getting nowhere . |
| 3 | I was running up an unauthorised overdraft , too ; I 'd stopped opening statements ages before because they made my hand shake and my tummy wobble . |
| 4 | He left the Operations Room and was running up the Pit transport belt when Cheryl Russell swung in from a side corridor and very nearly cannoned into him . |
| 5 | Well , no , and everyone was running up the slate |
| 6 | Ranetta Sen , 13 , was running along a corridor to her next class when she crashed into a wall and fell to the floor . |
| 7 | The winch man was running out the cable , allowing the barrage balloon to rise . |
| 8 | The rain was running down the glass in tiny sparkling rivulets . |
| 9 | In a minute she had rushed from the house and was running down the garden . |
| 10 | A drain had overflowed at the end of the road and water was running down the tarmac . |
| 11 | Then he was running down the office , howling like a bereaved dog . |
| 12 | But those who could speak English spoke no Welsh aloud in Shrewsbury in those days , for feeling was running all the higher because the two races bred and mingled so closely here , and it was well to be known as a loyal king 's man , and indulge other sympathies only in low voices round the hearth , or better still , in silence within the heart . |