Example sentences of "run the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I run the kitchen just as I would run it in a hotel or restaurant , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Drink more than this and you run the risk of developing high blood pressure , which in turn can lead to heart attack or stroke . |
| 3 | Though not so revolutionary as to require years of testing and modification ( and run the risk of ultimate rejection as in the case of the Advanced Passenger Train ) . |
| 4 | You can get special surface-mounting boxes which have a slot to take mini-trunking , but if these are not available , simply run the mini-trunking up to the edge of the box and knock out one of the holes in the side . |
| 5 | You must plan the circuit carefully , especially if you intend to move the lights around , and run suitable cable underground ( use armoured cable or run the cable in conduit , at least 450mm ( 18in ) deep , connected to the main house consumer unit . |
| 6 | You make a hole in the outside wall and run the waste pipe through , fit an elbow and lead another pipe into the hopper head . |
| 7 | Rugby Union : Lions run the new revolution : Steve Bale on the death of an inferiority complex |
| 8 | In the long run the technological hare may be outrun by the investigative tortoise . |
| 9 | He is perfectly earnest when he says , ‘ I feel that the people who run the big national companies are in my way . |
| 10 | This topic has less attraction for ordinary policemen and women , for although they might take pleasure in thing someone is interested in their views , it is they who run the risks associated with answering questions and from being observed doing their job . |
| 11 | In the long run the centralist traditions were to win the race against all hopes for some measure of local autonomy . |
| 12 | In the cinema foyer the two old ladies who run the cinema are both dispensing and receiving abuse from all sides as to the quality of the night 's offerings , Storm Over the Nile and Voodoo Woman . |
| 13 | The cinema was tiny , run single-handed by Neno Rossi , who would store the entrance eggs in straw and then run the projector . |
| 14 | Oh no , I run the Dutch section of the club . |
| 15 | In extreme cases , say of a family from the remote rural areas of Azad Kashmir , if the mother has just had a baby , it is known for daughters of twelve to stay at home from school for weeks , do all the cooking , look after the younger children and generally run the home . |
| 16 | It is here , in what is technically the Soviet Sector , that civilians run the risk of being arrested by East German soldiers who can easily cross the Wall ( when on duty ) through one of several camouflaged doors . |
| 17 | ‘ I thought the clothes were great , ’ says Alison , who combines a full-time job for British Sky Broadcasting , newsreading and presenting a current affairs/magazine programme with hosting the quiz show , Run The Gauntlet , for ITV . |
| 18 | Possible reasons for non-approval run the gamut from the usual to the astounding . |
| 19 | Undoubtedly the narrow legal conservatives — both on and off the bench — who run the criminal justice system will continue to resist the move ; but HMG will not be able to ignore the arguments set out in the report . |
| 20 | If you run the Install program , it creates two subdirectories with ‘ impossible ’ names . |
| 21 | Those who run the game in Britain will hope fervently that the Cardiff solicitor 's daughter does not go the same way . |
| 22 | Many cities run the trees through chippers , paying for the operation by selling the mulch or using it in public parks . |
| 23 | Though not strictly a member of the cabinet , Mr Ozawa has given the prime minister considerable support and has in effect run the government 's day-to-day business . |
| 24 | Several American companies now offer object-oriented databases — among them Symbolics ( noted for computers that run the LISP programming language ) , Ingres ( maker of a best-selling relational database ) , and start-ups including Servio Logic , Ontologic and Object Design . |
| 25 | The descendants of those alliances still run the region , and Samuel Stone ( from Costa Rica ) has the genealogical tables to prove it . |
| 26 | General Seri 's predecessor as head of the crime-suppression division , and his leading opponent within the police force , is one of the graduates of the Chulachomklao Military Academy who now run the Thai armed forces . |
| 27 | THE bookmaking barons like to be called Alfie or Len ; the people who run the Jockey Club , racing 's official regulator , prefer glossier titles . |
| 28 | Now they are scrapping over the same pound — and over the betting levy , which the Horserace Betting Levy Board redistributes from punters to those who run the racing business . |
| 29 | Subsidiary characters run the gamut of weird and wacky academics , familiar from a host of campus novels . |
| 30 | They have the political power , they establish and run the legal system . |