Example sentences of "run [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Lorenzo contends he fired in self-defence because he was about to be run down by the motorcycle , which was being chased by a police car . |
| 2 | What emerges from an attempt to answer the last question is that the known low-cost reserves will have been significantly run down by 2025 , but total reserves are large , sufficient to last for more than 400 years at present rates of consumption , according to one estimate . |
| 3 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 4 | A FATHER was seriously hurt when he was run down by joyriders — driving his car . |
| 5 | There were no accidents unless you count ‘ Survival ’ wildlife cameraman Dieter Plage being run down by an enraged tusker who passed right over him as he lay on the ground . |
| 6 | Whether or not , as some allege , food supplies were deliberately run down by the authorities , by autumn there was plausible reason enough to deploy troops to urban and rural areas to assist in food distribution and ‘ relieve bottlenecks ’ . |
| 7 | Ron Letts as run down by a stolen truck outside the warehouse where he worked . |
| 8 | That August the three Maguire children died when they and their mother , Anne , were run down by a terrorist who had been shot by soldiers during an incident . |
| 9 | Around 4,000 koala bears are run down by traffic , killed by dogs or die from disease and lack of food in Australia every year , preservationists said . |
| 10 | Ken Gillance , defending , said Lamont was not connected with vice but Welsh told him the previous day she had almost been run down by one of Roth 's friends . |
| 11 | He got them when he was run over by his father 's new Grand Am . |
| 12 | He bumped into people without realising it , walked into walls and was almost run over by Tock in his protective case . |
| 13 | People were run over by trains because they would stretch themselves out on the rails for a quick nap , or because they were drunk . |
| 14 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 15 | The narrator , returning to the box shortly afterwards , finds that the signalman has been run over by a train . |
| 16 | He was run over by at least twelve wagons before the train was brought to an halt . |
| 17 | I find it difficult to understand those who say they are planning for next year 's championships — what is the point , they could be run over by a bus before next year ? |
| 18 | The 41-year-old victim died instantly when he was run over by a Bedford van less than a mile from his home in Witney , Oxon . |
| 19 | ‘ It was pretty close for a while , but in the last two sets I got run over by a Mack truck , ’ said Navratilova , who told the crowd that next year will probably be her last year of competing on the tour as a singles player . |
| 20 | Maybe he 's annoyed because he ca n't quite figure what all this has to do with what the programme describes as ‘ the cyberspace experience ’ , maybe it 's because a minute ago he was nearly run over by a 30-foot-high mutoid metal minotaur , but he looks about ready to chin someone . |
| 21 | Tot run over by car trailer |
| 22 | That time he played a yellow cab driver and got run over by his own cab . |
| 23 | PENSIONER Olive Smith was run over by a train — and escaped with just a small head cut . |
| 24 | While walking the rest of the way , you are run over by kids on mopeds . |
| 25 | If either were run over by the proverbial bus , his replacement would carry on as before . |
| 26 | He got run over by an articulated lorry . |
| 27 | What have drowning , suffocating , bleeding and being run over by a steam roller got in common ? |
| 28 | What happens if you are run over by an iceberg ? |
| 29 | Now I have nothing against Terry as a person , although I do not think I would cross the road to help him if he were run over by a lorry , but that is neither here nor there . |
| 30 | She blinked and looked demurely down at the grey and red carpet which squelched across the floor like a rabbit that had been run over by a lorry . |