Example sentences of "running [prep] " in BNC.

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1 AS PART of their 50th anniversary ‘ celebrations , ’ definitive transport publishers Ian Allan have reprinted their four complete ‘ ABC of Locomotives ’ running during 1944 from the four pre-nationalisation companies .
2 ‘ This has been a big exercise , ’ said Crawford , ‘ but it is all nearing completion now and the new systems should be up and running during the next six months . ’
3 A pilot programme is running during the Autumn Term 1992 at Ilford Training Centre enabling girls from local schools to visit the trailer .
4 This meant that country could keep on running during the war , and , proving that they could do the same jobs as men , women gave themselves an enormous boost in the push for votes .
5 However , it is imperative that LIFESPAN is not running during the backup period if a consistent set of database files is to exist in the save_set .
6 Stick her neck out and her life would be a succession of errands for Mrs Fanshawe , running about the town sending crazy messages to a girl who did n't exist .
7 They cover everything from rats running about the roof to astronomic insurance charges ; from a gale removing the whole roof to the discovery that there is a two-year waiting list for repairs .
8 The hospital was in horrible confusion : heavy partitions and ceilings had fallen on patients , beds had overturned , windows had blown in and cut people , blood was spattered on the walls and doors , instruments were everywhere , many of the patients were running about screaming , many more lay dead .
9 This never worked because he was always so tired from running about the library all day he fell straight to sleep .
10 Then might you have seen many a horse running about the field with the saddle under his belly , and many a horseman in evil plight upon the ground .
11 men running about the streets of the towns .
12 Legends tell that the Koki-teno can seduce any mortal man and that their victims will eventually become subject to ‘ fox possession ’ , running about growling and easily frightened by dogs .
13 My mother 's Spontaneous memories are more amenable : she can remember the trivial in a way I find exciting : ‘ The ginger-haired Dent twins running about naked in the back-alley to get dry after their bath . ’
14 I finally came to the churchyard , ‘ Titty-Bottle Park ’ , where there were literally dozens of kids running about the tombstones .
15 ‘ Whoa ! ’ is constructed slyly , so from the outside it looks like it was made by tramps in their lunch hour , but in reality it is a nifto exercise in song-building that starts off quiet and nervous and by the end is running about the room shouting and pouring lager into flowerpots .
16 It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before .
17 It increases their resting metabolic rate by about five percent engine is running about one twentieth faster all the time , so perhaps this is why it wears out quicker .
18 It would start probably because they are illegal , erm but basically because everybody else running about me er , was trying it , my friends so it basically boiled down to peer pressure at the start .
19 ‘ A year ago we were told that Laura was dying today she is running about full of energy and looking great . ’
20 I 've shut the door now I 've finished running about
21 Oh Dave , my journey , running about early in the morning to leave everything tidy for the chaps , came out without anything inside their tum , provided that I could have coffee on the , in the buffet car on the train from Stow Market , no hot drinks madam , we have n't got enough power in the batteries , I thought well you know it 's all , we got to Liverpool Street on time
22 Yeah , so you , there 's one indoors running about indoors .
23 Yeah the Stratford Warriors running about every six weeks something like that .
24 No , running about it 's up and down , and stretching your legs and your muscles in your .
25 it means nothing to them , what they did last year was sat there and got irritated and they kept like running about
26 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 ?
27 Just running about , what are you doing all day ?
28 The people at the front were shouting at him , the news of his message was running through the crowd like a grass fire .
29 No matter from which angle they are viewed , these statues reveal that the head and limbs counter-balance each other round a central line running through the body so that each part is one with the whole picture .
30 Raskolnikov is young , preoccupied and merely puzzled — ‘ young , abstract and therefore cruel ’ , the severe voice of the novel descries him elsewhere — but the reader attends in tragic wonder , for he understands that Marmeladov has indeed nowhere to go , a nowhere which is the finality of his loose end , at once in character , at once personal to the selfish selfless rationale of one man 's marriage and his other circumstances , personal to his ‘ destitution ’ or ‘ extremity ’ or ‘ misère ’ ( nishcheta , which he is careful to distinguish from his poverty ) , and at the same time an objective and transpersonal theme running through all Dostoevsky 's work .
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