Example sentences of "[Wh det] [adv] ran [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CERTAINLY one of the more picturesque places on the railway scene is the site of the original Wye Valley Railway , which once ran between Chepstow and Monmouth . |
| 2 | Such large quantities of water have been diverted for irrigation of the crop that the rivers which once ran into the sea no longer reach it . |
| 3 | The three streams which once ran beneath it have long since vanished , but , at the back of the town , the water still finds its way to the sea , as it has from the beginning of time . |
| 4 | Furthermore , recurrences , which usually ran at ten to 20 per cent , dropped close to zero . |
| 5 | By far the most conspicuous element in the new landscape were the small , hedged fields small , that is , by comparison with the vast open fields — that had preceded them , which usually ran to several hundred acres unbroken by a single hedge . |
| 6 | Korea was fully discussed at the conference and agreement was secured , which later ran into the sands . |
| 7 | Paula last appeared at the Playhouse as Shirley Valentine in a production which later ran in the West End . |
| 8 | These schemes , which originally ran for one year , have now been extended to two years . |
| 9 | In particular , they avoided the straight-line exit route to Hormuz from , say , Kuwait which inevitably ran through the Iranian zone . |
| 10 | Play at Beaconsfield CC 's six-a-side festival was abandoned after the club 's president Tom Orford , 86 , lost control of his car , which then ran across the pitch and hit a bench near the pavilion , injuring four spectators . |
| 11 | They now will have to wait for the 17.18 which previously ran at 17.08 or walk from Eaglescliffe . ’ |
| 12 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 13 | It would be unfair and inaccurate to suggest that PageMaker was the first desktop publishing program , that honour probably goes to the now defunct Studio Software 's DO-it which actually ran on a PC rather than a Macintosh and , of course , there had been electronic publishing systems based on workstations and mainframes available for several years . |
| 14 | And what also ran through the book , I said , was a constant , happy appreciation of women . |