Example sentences of "[vb infin] run for " in BNC.
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| 1 | the experiment would need to run for very many years to demonstrate any difference . |
| 2 | ‘ Would you like to run for the school ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Would you like to run for the school ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Enter Rita , a young , timid , nervous , woman in clinging red dress , lipstick to match and a pair of shoes in which you would not want to run for a bus . |
| 6 | Jennifer realised that she would have to run for her train if she was to be home in time ; Steven had booked a table at their favourite restaurant and was due to pick her up at 7.30 . |
| 7 | And by the way , we 'll have to run for it ; it 's coming down whole water . ’ |
| 8 | Not too late , Chris Court said , as he would have to listen for the Division bell and might have to run for it . |
| 9 | All the fish in the country will have to run for cover after what happened to me this week ! |
| 10 | We should have run for it . |
| 11 | We should have run for it . |
| 12 | We should have run for it . |
| 13 | We should have run for it . |
| 14 | So although the machine may have run for eight minutes , it was not an uninterrupted eight minutes . |
| 15 | Most people would have run for their lives . |
| 16 | All policies now stipulate that they must have run for between three and six months before claims will be considered — and most bar self-employed people altogether . |
| 17 | Some of the tunnels must have run for miles , winding in and out of the channels of water that threaded everywhere . |
| 18 | Had he not done so , the probability is the probation order would have run for six months and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 19 | Er Harry Truman could 've run for the presidency in nineteen fifty two but chose not to . |
| 20 | Where the court is satisfied , on the application of the official receiver , that the bankrupt has failed to comply with any of his obligations under the Act , it can order that time shall cease to run for as long as or subject to such conditions as it thinks fit ( s 279(3) ) . |
| 21 | No matter about the slump in the property market , nor that there does n't seem to be any money about : they 'll come running for these . |