Example sentences of "it runs [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Rippling from a hidden mountain lake it runs eastward through the Tujetschtal , a beautiful and little-known valley .
2 It is not bard to imagine legionaries marching briskly along this track because , even though it is now walled as a result of the nineteenth-century enclosures , it runs straight as a spear across the fell , totally unlike the whirligig roads of the drovers and packmen .
3 And then it goes it it runs away into the the the through the er bypass into the Con er er River Conway .
4 If , for instance , a lone ant finds a food source too large for it to bring back to the nest by itself , it runs back to the nest leaving a pheromone trail on the way .
5 If the diaphragm is torn ( a wc may be difficult to flush ) , or the washer is worn , it may prevent the ballvalve from closing properly , and the cistern will continue to fill until it runs out of the overflow .
6 It can only be brought to an end on or after the date it runs out by a notice in a prescribed form , served by either the landlord or the tenant .
7 In its humped posture it runs along in a zigzag path , quivering its wings and stopping every so often to make sure that it is being followed .
8 After a couple of hours rest , it runs off into the bush to find food for itself , and after only twenty-four hours it is able to fly .
9 It runs so near the ancient Banbury-Oxford road ( within a quarter of a mile in places ) that it can not have served as another through road .
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