Example sentences of "running for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the same way , when running for a shot , try to keep your centre of gravity under control . |
| 2 | I imagined Gregory Peck running for cover in that spooky cemetery in The Omen . |
| 3 | He is running for a place on its ruling council in the forthcoming elections . |
| 4 | The Kennedys always maintained that the secret of running for any office was a matter of pacing . |
| 5 | Since his recovery , he 's been running for the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 6 | Why do n't you help by running for us ? |
| 7 | By running for Great Ormond Street Children 's Hospital Fund you could help support the research desperately needed to save children 's lives . |
| 8 | RUNNING FOR STARLIGHT |
| 9 | It has also been running for the past three weeks against The Free Frenchman , which may turn out to be a turbo-tortoise but which started as the turn off of the week . |
| 10 | Then , leading 12-4 , Hall took three points running for a convincing victory . |
| 11 | Eventually , leading 12-4 , Hall took three points running for a convincing victory . |
| 12 | Wooderson continued running for a few years , winning the European 5,000 metres and stretching his span of achievement from world record breaker at half-mile to national cross-country champion over nine miles in 1949 . |
| 13 | In 1984 opinion polls showed that Ronald Reagan would have been decisively defeated had he been running for re-election in Britain . |
| 14 | The death penalty has featured in campaigns in Florida ; in Georgia , where Mr Andrew Young , the former mayor of Atlanta who is now running for governor , has said that capital punishment is sometimes necessary ; in Michigan , where the Republican Senate candidate , Mr Bill Schuette , has attacked Democratic Senator Carl Levin for opposing it ; in one of this week 's congressional by-elections in New York . |
| 15 | The campaign waged by both public and hospital staff was one of the biggest in east London 's political history : over seven hundred people at the York Hall , the old boxing venue , twenty thousand signed petitions , a two-hour protest strike and the first-ever hospital work-in , which kept the hospital running for a month and treated eleven hundred emergencies after its official date of closure . |
| 16 | So you go running for it , chasing that feeling of being alive , the sensation . |
| 17 | In twenty-six states ‘ Reds ’ were disqualified from running for office , working as civil servants , and some from holding passports or drawing unemployment money . |
| 18 | Just as he began to fear that he was running for his life through a nightmare landscape that had no end , the ground suddenly opened to reveal the rushing waters of the beck and the section of crumbling stone wall on its other side . |
| 19 | By 1932 , when Hitler was running for Reich President and the Nazi Movement was gaining the support of over a third of the population , the ‘ Jewish Question , scarcely featured in Hitler 's public addresses . |
| 20 | Mr Souness , a father of three who is separated from his wife Danielle , has continued to train daily even though his playing career ended two years ago , running for 20 minutes and spending 40 minutes on exercises . |
| 21 | Unit trust savings schemes had been running for 20 years , but investment trust savings schemes did not start until 1984 . |
| 22 | Bedford , who has slotted training between his jobs with the British Athletic Federation and the International Athletes Club , is running for charity . |
| 23 | He avoids racial slurs — although at one point in an interview he referred to blacks as ‘ gang-bangers ’ — and is running for a Republican seat on the city council of Aurora , a Denver suburb . |
| 24 | Following their Olympic collision in the 3,000 metres , Decker Slaney tumbled out of the race in tears and Budd-Pieterse — running for Britain — finished seventh . |
| 25 | And if you stop running for two blocks , you 're a dead man . ’ |
| 26 | The UK government measures the lead in tapwater that has been running for several minutes , as it would be if you had a bath in it , and not the first few pints or cupfuls , as you would use for cooking or making a cup of tea . |
| 27 | Central government and the Water Authorities have deliberately hidden the truth from the water-consuming public by failing to conduct surveys ( for example , not collating data on pesticides ) , using misleading types of measurement ( for example , lead from tapwater running for several minutes ) , and simply withholding information ( as at Camelford and in Dumfries and Galloway ) . |
| 28 | They are the culminations of a whole life which , as Malcolm Johnson puts it , ‘ sculpted their present problems and concerns ’ ; a life itself built around many different ‘ life-threads ’ — education , work , marriage , children , hobbies , and so on — so that it is best understood , both in psychological and social terms , ‘ as a complex of strands running for different lengths of time throughout a life biography and moulding its individuality ’ . |
| 29 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 30 | Now the Network has over 100 local organisers , many of them recruited from the ranks of sports development officers all over the country , who are only too keen to incorporate running for women as part of their programme . |