Example sentences of "she ran [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As her opening music rang out , she ran up to the wings , her spirits considerably buoyed up by knowing her father was in the audience , and by the fact that she 'd felt a tiny but unmistakable buzz of excitement on hearing those familiar chords .
2 When Flavia remembered that tomorrow was going to be her essay day she ran up to the tower to fetch some essential-books which she set out with grim awareness on the dining-room table at the villa .
3 The Sun reminded its readers that ‘ it was his flag which helped cover topless streaker Erika Rowe [ sic ] after she ran on to the turf at Twickenham during a rugby international in 1982 ’ .
4 She ran on to the line , waving her two flags .
5 She ran over to the rock and touched it .
6 When , a little later , she ran out to the post , she took sixpence with her , and went into the confectioner 's at the corner of the road to buy some mint humbugs .
7 She ran out of the room , down the stairs to her parents ' bedroom .
8 Then she ran out of the house , bumping into Tom Firth , the landlord of the Shoulder of Mutton , as he came in .
9 ‘ What I really wanted to know was why she ran out of the restaurant .
10 She ran out into the road and screamed .
11 She ran out in the darkness .
12 So she ran down through the trees and caught up with the old woman just as she was about to start off across the marsh .
13 She ran down through the house and dashed out into the street .
14 And she took the skin and she ran down to the shore and she put on the skin , dived back into the sea .
15 Discarding the culotte-shorts , she ran down into the water clad in her olive-green one-piece .
16 She ran back through the kitchen and down the steps into the lower scullery , but when she came out by the back door and looked across to the wall , Tristram was not be seen .
17 She ran back into the corridor and back towards the service lift .
18 At first her father had tried persuasion , but she was intransigent : brute force , but she ran back to the woods the moment she could : custodial restraint , but he could not bear the sight and sound of her pining .
19 Crouching , she ran back to the speeder .
20 She ran back to the glass doors but Francis barred her way ; she ran across the terrace to the balustrade , climbed on to it , poised to dive .
21 So she ran back to the car and fetched her witch 's broom .
22 She ran back to the table for it , but of course , she was now much too small !
23 She ran back across the yard to the hen-house , through the netting gate , across the muddy enclosure , scattering hens at each step .
24 He insisted on walking her home but she ran off at the corner .
25 She ran off with the silver .
26 When Julie saw her coming she ran off over the road .
27 I think she must have heard me because she ran off like the clappers towards the quay . ’
28 ‘ See you tomorrow , ’ she called to Sally but could n't think of anything to say to the man , so she ran off after the others .
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