Example sentences of "[verb] run for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr North , whose conviction in the Iran-Contra scandal was dismissed by a federal appeals court , is widely expected to run for the Senate as a Republican from Virginia . |
| 2 | But we have to have some spare capacity in case we want to run for the bus or climb Everest ( where the air is less oxygen-rich ) . |
| 3 | Julie , it is believed , tried to run for it , back along that treelined path Elizabeth had snapped . |
| 4 | As a last resort , Griselda tried to run for it , but of course her bootlaces were tied together so she fell flat on her back . |
| 5 | He tried to run for help straight after the crash but then he saw Jason on the road and collapsed with the shock . |
| 6 | Some of the guinea pigs stopped running for a week after a competitive marathon , while a second group jogged lightly for about 30 minutes every day the week after the race . |
| 7 | As long as the carrier continues to be liable for the delivery of the goods to a holder of the missing bill of lading , the indemnity has to run for long or indefinite periods of time . |
| 8 | ‘ So Billy Tuckett gets badly scared and starts running for where he thinks his old friend Lucy Scarrott lives . ’ |
| 9 | the experiment would need to run for very many years to demonstrate any difference . |
| 10 | For one thing , a plan based only on the rebate probably needs to run for about five years to be practical , otherwise the charges will eat up too much of the benefits . |
| 11 | Irrespective of the use of surrogates , monitoring environmental processes only makes sense over time-scales which are extended by human standards ( hence the IGBP ( see below ) is designed to run for two or three decades ) ; |
| 12 | The Midland Guaranteed Capital Bond is a unit-linked single premium life assurance policy designed to run for five years . |
| 13 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 14 | The programme will recreate the traditional Carol Service train , which the Railway has run for over 20 years as worshippers travel by steam train from Keighley to Oxenhope , singing carols at each of the Railway 's six award-winning stations . |
| 15 | Joan Knight will also be returning to the theatre which she has run for the last 25 years , Andrew McKinnon having invited her to direct Tally 's Blood . |
| 16 | The scheme has run for three years and , during that time , around 180 dogs and bitches have been neutered . |
| 17 | And if you stop running for two blocks , you 're a dead man . ’ |
| 18 | " Where are we going and how long will it be before some of us stop running for good and all ? " |
| 19 | The corridors seemed to run for miles . |
| 20 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama has introduced a new Clipper C400 RISC-based desktop and two multiprocessing Intel Corp 80486-based servers geared to run for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT . |
| 21 | Yes , I want to leave early tomorrow , because I 'm , I 'm not going to rush for a train , I do n't want to be caught thinking oh the last train to Stow Market goes at four o'clock and I 've got to run for it I got to be prepared to miss the train . |
| 22 | The flow pattern , and allowed to run for many years of simulated time , generating a sequence of day-to-day ‘ weather ’ , |
| 23 | ‘ Would you like to run for the school ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Would you like to run for the school ? ’ |
| 25 | No my lady I never run for d anybody and I 'm not going to run for you . |
| 26 | The Marines did n't wait to be told twice , but simply began running for the door , firing as they went . |
| 27 | US columnist William Buckley Jr has worked out that if Electronic Data Systems Corp founder Ross Perot does decide to run for President , his commitment to spend $100m of his estimated $3,000m fortune on his campaign , it represents about 3% of his capital worth , about half what his wealth generates in a year , so that by election day in November , he will still be richer than he was when he started out . |
| 28 | A COMIC behind-the-scenes look at what it 's really like to run for President in the United States is offered in Feed ( BBC-2 , 11.55pm ) . |
| 29 | A ‘ Coronation ’ tram , No 1174 , swayed into view and he began to run for the stop . |
| 30 | Although the parquet was then expected to take steps to bring the document to the attention of the defendant , service was already complete and time began to run for various purposes regardless of the date upon which the defendant received actual notice of the proceedings . |