Example sentences of "[Wh det] [noun] ran " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years ago , there were four courses , which Gerwyn ran single handedly . |
| 2 | The plasteel door of the airlock was a grim grin of great interlocking teeth , surrounded by tubular lips from which ducts ran to pressure gauges . |
| 3 | She was going to explain , too , how the milk came in glass bottles on a cart pulled by a brown horse , and how sometimes the horse left steaming heaps of brown , oval-shaped droppings in the road which people ran out to scoop up with coal shovels and take for their vegetable plots . |
| 4 | Which novelist ran ( unsuccessfully ) for the presidency of France in 1848 ? |
| 5 | The nomal revision to which the trade figures are subject has meant that July this year has replaced October 1988 as the month in which Britain ran up its worst ever current account deficit . |
| 6 | Dorigo ran down inside left 30–40 yards unchallenged , hit a through ball which Wallace ran across from right centre onto . |
| 7 | A coalition was formed in June 1757 in which Pitt ran the war , and justified his claim ‘ I know that I can save this country , and I know that no other man can ’ , while the Duke of Newcastle made sure that the majority in the House of Commons realized that their business was to vote money for Pitt 's military operations without too much fuss . |
| 8 | The data was held at the ESRC Data Archive , which , however , did not provide on-line access , although there was a national support post , whose holder ran courses , produced documentation , supplied data to regional centres and gave advice . |
| 9 | THE Army Major whose wife ran over and killed his lover has finally been stripped of his rank . |
| 10 | Big , certainly , but with that lovely glowing skin and all that chestnut hair tied back in a navy and white ribbon , she looked what she was : a girl from a nice family , from a house in the country , whose father ran an established business . |
| 11 | He could see that she was a gentle uncomplicated creature , whose life ran on clearly defined tracks . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Shawn Slater , 25 , whose grandfather ran a fish and chip shop on the seafront at Bournemouth , is the new , disarming face of the Ku Klux Klan in America , intent on building on the political success of neo-Nazi groups in Germany and France . |