Example sentences of "ran for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marion , a ripely handsome woman in her mid-thirties , who had played a season at Stratford-on-Avon and toured as Mrs Tanqueray , was extremely displeased at having to share Jessie , let alone a dressing-room , and particularly with a chit like Bunty ; but the Regent was small and naturally the two Star dressing-rooms , 1 and 2 , went to Salt and Pepper , that perennial and professionally married pair of comedy-thriller performers whose productions never ran for less than a year — a godsend in a profession where rehearse for three weeks , open and close in two was not unusual . |
| 2 | His canonry was not of Oxford but of Kobe , of the Anglican Church in Japan , but it was the Oxford Diocesan Clergy Cricket side which he captained and ran for 25 years . |
| 3 | Armed guards told thousands of people with jobs in the western sector they should not report for work ‘ for the time being ’ , while a few were said to have turned a blind eye as scores of their fellow citizens ran for freedom . |
| 4 | They claim as their spiritual leader Bruce Babbitt , Arizona 's talented and common-sensical former governor who ran for president in 1988 and now works as a lawyer in Phoenix . |
| 5 | AT THE bitter end the dictator ran for it . |
| 6 | It was all the greatest nonsense but the scare ran for a couple of days . |
| 7 | More steam , more dust stirred up until we ran for the door gasping . |
| 8 | Some of these engines ran for well over a century before being discarded , and particularly fine and huge specimens can be found operating at the Kew steam engine museum . |
| 9 | When Mr Major ran for party leader , the terrier-like figure of Mrs Shephard joined his campaign team early on , rounded up his support and delivered him a victory which he was swift to reward with the post of Minister of State in the Treasury . |
| 10 | The hearings ran for a hundred days during the summer and autumn of 1977 . |
| 11 | Marling eventually departed ( his lease ran for 21 years ) and cloth manufacture ceased . |
| 12 | Screeching MacIans ran for the woods . |
| 13 | Luch , who was still employed watching him , ran for Bridhe and David Beaton . |
| 14 | Cooper , Sadler and a Frenchman , Freddie Taxis , were nearest to the top of the wadi and ran for it . |
| 15 | I jumped off the bank I was sitting on and ran for the ball , elated . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought of going out for some choc bars , ’ he would say , adding sotto voce as his daughter ran for her anorak , ‘ and I thought we might drop off at the gym/piano teacher's/library on the way … ’ |
| 17 | SPECIAL Constable John Casey of the Metropolitan Police ran for charity all the way from Guildford to Grayshott . |
| 18 | Then both ran for the marsh . |
| 19 | Everyone ran for the door to see what had happened . |
| 20 | This train ran for some time , but was not considered entirely successful . |
| 21 | When he retired from practice , probably in 1828 , he and others produced a veterinary periodical called the Farrier and Naturalist , which was devoted to attacks on Professor Coleman , and ran for three years . |
| 22 | To match a 1000ft reel of film which ran for a little over eleven minutes , a 78rpm turntable had to be slowed to 33 1/3rpm ( 18 ) . |
| 23 | So I will claim this to be the lowest speed of any commercial prerecorded ‘ two-minute ’ cylinder , which ran for the best part of four minutes now . |
| 24 | A successful film usually ran for six weeks and there were three to five separate performances , six days a week to get through . |
| 25 | So we eased our sheets and ran for home . |
| 26 | The show ran for nearly two years at the Arts Theatre in the West End to rave reviews . |
| 27 | McCandless , accompanied by a Canadian student named Arthur Jaffray , spotted Mrs. O'Connor about an hour later and whilst Jaffray ran for a boat and some ropes , McCandless with complete disregard for the dangers , fought his way through the strong current to reach Mrs. O'Connor and supported her until Jaffray arrived in a boat with the woman 's father . |
| 28 | I was playing guitar in a group which I ran for a while , and then had some success with a couple of singles . |
| 29 | I ran for the school from the first year onwards , and this helped me tremendously . |
| 30 | I ran for the school up to and including the third year and then I stopped , though I ca n't remember why , although I was fourteen , which is , as most young men will tell you , a funny age . |