Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] run to " in BNC.
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| 1 | A milk-float was groaning its way up and a boy of about my age ran to and fro with a milk-crate . |
| 2 | ‘ My mother ran to the balcony and beneath her was a huge piece of wreckage from the plane still blazing . |
| 3 | As the younger one was reaching up to the mantlepiece with the flowers , her frock caught fire ; her sister ran to her aid , and soon both girls were engulfed in the flames . |
| 4 | As her friend ran to her side , she pointed up the tree . |
| 5 | But this number pales into insignificance when we compare it with the prodigious number of sperm , whose output runs to a hundred million daily ! |
| 6 | ‘ A world-wide conspiracy embracing a third of the world 's population ’ he pronounced the enemy to be , and added that it threatened ‘ the erasure of freedom , perhaps for ever , from the parchment of time ’ … a windy piece of rhetoric typical of the times if not of J. Edgar , whose taste ran to Tarzan movies where the dialogue is less verbose . |
| 7 | ‘ When I first met Abi , I looked up her father in the Theatre Who 's Who and his entry ran to four pages , ’ says Andrew . |
| 8 | This topic is too recent for there to be many guidelines available but for a particular topic the designer can assume that he need not be inhibited in allowing his imagination to run to many kinds of novel solutions . |
| 9 | His schoolmate ran to a nearby house for help . |
| 10 | Told him not to let his report run to more than it absolutely had to , and on no account to make a feature piece out of it . |
| 11 | But if your mind runs to ingenuities of physical fact , then it is a type of book that can still attract readers . |
| 12 | Newer cars to look for are the Citroen BX range , the Peugeot 205 and 309 GRTD , and , if your pocket runs to it , Renault 's smashing little Clio RN1.9D or Citroen 's brilliant ZX Reflex 1.9D . |