Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | He practised running on the spot . |
| 4 | A huge dog came running towards me . |
| 5 | Emma came running towards her , saying , ‘ Mammy , I got a prize for recitation , look ! ’ |
| 6 | Salt said as Jess came running into the kitchen . |
| 7 | She said : ‘ I heard a click and then a shot and one of our cats , Fluffy , came running into the garden . |
| 8 | It was well past her bedtime , but little Nichola came running into the living room where her mum and dad were sitting . |
| 9 | And yet it may still be true that he came within minutes of Jerome 's flight , found the man only stunned , stooped close and knew him , for then knowing was possible , and killed him , and only then took thought how to escape suspicion , and came running into the town , to me . ’ |
| 10 | It was a nice touch when she came running along the embankment , late , fresh from her lover 's embraces . ’ |
| 11 | An hour or so later Owen was working peacefully in his office when the door slammed at the end of the building and feet came running along the corridor . |
| 12 | Philip came running down the stairs . |
| 13 | Will 's sister , Joan , opened the door , and then Will came running down the stairs . |
| 14 | One morning , Azmaveth came running down the corridor outside Lucien 's room to intercept him before he went to his practice . |
| 15 | She came running down the stairs . |
| 16 | As he paused by the monkey-puzzle now the dogs came running at him , barking and jumping , sniffing at his feet . |
| 17 | If every minion came running to me with his little scrap of information , I would never get any work done . ’ |
| 18 | When children came running to them for sweets , they scythed them down with automatic fire . |
| 19 | Well of course she came running to me , you see , and we immediately phoned for the doctor , you see but , however , and I said , look , phone for the doctor , I said , and then I said go across to the railway police just across the yard and I asked one of them to come to me and I said I will go up with her and be with her until the doctor arrived , er he was with her the police sergeant when she died . |
| 20 | ‘ Now Marguerite will think that I came running to you to beg to go home . |
| 21 | Other nomes came running across the quarry floor , with Nisodemus in the lead , and piled up in a crowd around the gate . |
| 22 | It seemed a simple system when I got to know it , but wondered what it was all about , with chaps standing in different places and shouting and bawling where they wanted this waggon that was being pushed off , as he came running without the train they diverted it into siding , you see , sorting out a train . |
| 23 | We talked about other things , and I told for the first time the story of how I lost the job at Drummonds , which made us both laugh so much the nurses came running with shocked looks to shut us up . |
| 24 | People came running with lanterns and torches , and soon hundreds of people were hurrying to the house . |
| 25 | Joe came running through the plastic curtains waving a slip of paper and a handful of notes . |
| 26 | ‘ I was on the ground and Robert came running over me and accidentally gashed my head with his boot , ’ said Barnes . |
| 27 | She was talking to Prue in the wardrobe — it was Geoffrey 's turn to call the half hour , when Bunny came running up the stairs . |
| 28 | James came running up the stairs as she came out of the office . |
| 29 | The second man , who was tall and lean , came running from the glade in which the car was parked . |
| 30 | Sarah came running from the parlour , her face colourless . |