Examples of 'had been running' in a sentence
Meaning of "had been running"
had been running - This phrase is the past perfect continuous tense of the verb 'to run'. It is used to indicate an action that started in the past and continued up until another past point. For example, 'She had been running for 30 minutes when she finally stopped.'
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had been running
You had been running through the sprays.
Our room service tabs had been running.
I had been running because they took my horse.
I would say it had been running awhile.
He had been running a campaign for months now.
He was out of breath because he had been running.
I had been running on adrenaline for too long.
It felt as if she had been running most of her life.
I had been running regular unleaded gas.
It felt as if he had been running his whole life.
I had been running early that morning.
I saw the twisted motives that had been running me.
Peter had been running right behind him.
They discovered that my jockey had been running it in illegal races.
We had been running very low on chamomile.
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This was a case that had been running on for over a year.
He had been running minutes behind the race leader.
Perhaps he had been running.
He had been running in the top ten.
It was comfortable as the air conditioning had been running before we arrived.
There had been running gun battles.
Even she knew the way these things had been running.
They had been running brandy.
Without committing any crime she had been running like a fugitive.
He had been running around trying to find his son.
Our room service tabs had been running somewhere between.
I had been running from male bears my whole life.
I probably had been running away.
Had been running practices a lot.
The local had been running late.
Had been running almost every night for the past few months.
He sighed as if he had been running.
They had been running in fourth place at the time.
It was certainly a bit disappointing because we had been running the experiment for a year.
He had been running when he suddenly collapsed.
For months the chimps had been running off when they saw me.
It had been running a business news and talk radio format.
As if he had been running.
He had been running his own marquee company for four years.
I could hear her catch her breath as though she had been running.
Water had been running all night.
This percentage varied with the length of time the assay had been running.
Elijah had been running because his life was being threatened.
One man implied that another had been running less than the rest.
He had been running fast for five minutes.
Palast contends that the ship had been running without radar for at least a year.
He had been running and hiding in the mountainous forest surrounding the prison.
She did not look well and had been running a high fever for several weeks.
Had been running.
The entire circuit they had been running on had been drenched in sweat by now.
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Examples of using Running
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I can not keep running people over
Running a political campaign gets really expensive
It was an armed man running at me in the subway firing at me
