Example sentences of "he run [adv] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He ran well from a bad draw when beaten about four lengths at Redcar recently and I am hoping to run him in the Portland Handicap at Doncaster . ’ |
| 2 | He ran away from the fearsome ruffian . |
| 3 | After a curious military episode — he ran away from Cambridge to join the 15th Dragoons — he arrived in Bristol in 1795 full of plans to establish a new system of society , called Pantisocracy ; this word is explained on p. 80 , but what it meant in practice was the rather grandiose idea of founding a new American colony . |
| 4 | Mansell was livid and admitted he ran away from the scene of the accident to avoid being tempted into big trouble . |
| 5 | Although in school activities Ernest was energetic and successful , twice he ran away from home before the Kansas City Star was joined by him as a cub reporter in 1917 . |
| 6 | ‘ He ran away from them , ’ Bernice informed him . |
| 7 | ‘ He ran away from his parents a month ago , ’ the young woman said . |
| 8 | Uncle Tommy , his only brother , used to tell me , in jocular fashion , that the only difference between Daddy and himself was that Daddy went into work and he ran away from it . |
| 9 | Throughout our Committee proceedings he ran away from protecting the pension rights of STG workers . |
| 10 | At sixteen he ran away from Harrow , and set up as a film director , work which took him to central Europe and east Africa , but proved financially unrewarding . |
| 11 | ‘ If you ask me , he ran away from Georgina . ’ |
| 12 | At the next corner he ran away from the woman . |
| 13 | That explains why he ran away from the house instead of towards it . |
| 14 | They think the murderer may have been seen as he ran away from the hotel . |
| 15 | Asked what made him so positive , he said : ‘ No sooner was the body found than he ran away from home . |
| 16 | He ran away from the rabbits , thinking , ‘ Maybe Charlie the Pigeon can help , he knows everything . ’ |
| 17 | When his vixen wife 's pregnancy turns out to be a phantom one , and he has to return to her bed , he runs away from home , taking refuge in his girlfriend 's apartment . |
| 18 | Stella gave a teasing laugh as she said , ‘ Everyone at the Wilderness knows that he runs away from women — but one day he 'll be caught . |