Example sentences of "and run [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organizer tells a story and , when a couple 's word is mentioned , they jump up and run down the outside of the teams , back to the other end jumping over the legs and then back to their seats . |
| 2 | You 'd do something more likely to reap a financial return , such as throw it off the top of Blackpool Tower in a Force Nine gale and run down the 763 steps to see if you could catch any of it before it blew away . |
| 3 | He heard again the noise of doors opening , voices , saw a light streaming across the street , and he was scrambling frantically over the bomb-site , tripping over a pile of rubble , tearing his coat on a fence , and running down the shockingly open street , running for his life . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew because it 's got a band of those black and white checks across the bonnet and the roof and running down the back . |
| 5 | ‘ All the gold , melting and running down the gutters , ’ said the big one , ignoring him . |
| 6 | Maggie 's mum taught her how to sew , years ago , they had an old Singer from her aunt who died , and ran up the clothes for all the family . |
| 7 | Ludovico went straight to the Via Santo Spirito , strode purposefully through the leafy courtyard , and ran up the broad shallow stairs to the top floor . |
| 8 | Intruding on a newly married couple sounded a textbook mistake when he surveyed it , but plainly both of them were glad he was there ; he could see it in their faces and ran up the platform with joy , not shy at all about the reflection of his hurtling bulk in the glass of a newsagent 's stall . |
| 9 | Suddenly it rushed at the tree , leapt onto a low branch , and ran up the trunk . |
| 10 | ‘ The delivery room was up two flights of stairs , so Tony picked me up and ran up the two flights with me . |
| 11 | She indicated Chris with a quick nod of the head , and ran up the garden to the house . |
| 12 | He pulled himself up and turned and ran down the avenue after her corps , past slow-moving cars , whose occupants stared at him curiously . |
| 13 | A single globular tear crept from the white blank of Telemachus ' eye and ran down the giant mask . |
| 14 | Trails of yellowish fluid dribbled from the pockets , and ran down the waistcoat . |
| 15 | Marler collected his suitcase and executive case from his room and ran down the staircase in search of Leonora Buckmaster to pay his respects . |
| 16 | When the men had gone back to the Inn Allen dropped out of the tree and ran down the slope to her . |
| 17 | Ruth went out of the house and ran down the steep moorland path all the way to Ilkley . |
| 18 | He jumped down quickly from his brake-van and ran down the line shouting a warning . |
| 19 | ‘ So I 've noticed , ’ said Meredith , and he pushed past him impatiently and ran down the grand staircase in search of Bunny . |
| 20 | He got up and ran down the rock . |
| 21 | And she slipped like a ghost into the shadows and ran down the gallery . |
| 22 | Kathleen grumbled , and climbed out of the tub , grabbed a towel and ran down the hall . |
| 23 | Quinn dropped the phone , grabbed the attaché case — the diamonds were still inside it , not in a fruit-bowl — and ran out the sitting-room door . |
| 24 | At the Foxhall Hotel , a single track leaves the Promenade line and runs down the centre of the narrow Princess Street , turning into Blundell Street , Here until 1982 stood the original tram depot , as rebuilt in 1898 for the conversion of the system to overhead line . |