Example sentences of "run to the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Yes , you go — run to the farm !
2 By Jaysus , they run to the top and stabbed the old fella to death .
3 At the lower end of the spinal cord , as the bundle is called , the nerve fibres emerge which run to the main sexual parts ( the situation is slightly more complicated in the woman but the picture will do ) .
4 I run to the house with Mrs Gould and we get everybody — my mum and dad and the other guests — to come down to the river .
5 I run to the house , creep back up to the Roombed , and take up position at the window .
6 On the word ‘ go ’ they run to the other end of the room and back .
7 I run to the bedroom , clutch the lump of hash from the bookshelf , and lock myself in the bathroom , turning the taps on .
8 And I and I run to the door and you 'd just drove off .
9 But I did hear this one and I run to the window
10 The measures will run to the end of 1990 , the same period as wage controls imposed at the weekend .
11 Donizetti 's resources did not run to the excesses a more modern composer would have applied in depicting a tormented mind .
12 The dog will always run to the owner to be reassured .
13 Nor did Gillian , who talked just as if she 'd only just run to the signpost and back .
14 It will be opened by Patrick Moore on 7 October and will run to the end of the month .
15 So they 'll RUN to the reception two miles away — and 100 guests will be expected to leg it , too .
16 You 've been here three weeks — I tell you , when it is three years you will run to the window with the rest of us . ’
17 More significantly still , these straight roads sometimes do not run to the nearest village but continue for some miles through open country , reaching the villages by means of side-roads .
18 If someone drops a pebble a metre away from a ghost crab , the crab will instantly run to the spot .
19 For past all doubt he was on that path , he did find the poor soul dead , he did run to the castle , like an honest man , and tell the sheriff what he had found .
20 It would run to the north of Eton Wick and the south of Chalvey along the south side of the M4 , crossing the main A355 Slough to Windsor road .
21 It will remain open from 9.30 to 5.30 , every day including Sundays , and will run to the end of the year .
22 Sorrel could n't run to the back of an envelope , but found instead a spare section of Filofax pages , just about the most expensive scribble pad you could get short of using ten-pound notes .
23 Rod Wallace is about to sign a new contract that will run to the end of 97/98 .
24 The bypass will run to the North of the town from the Woodhouse roundabout on Middlesbrough Road .
25 By the time I 'd run to the other end of the same streets , I was passing Jackie Onassis ’ front door and unbelievable opulence .
26 He would be unlikely to give the Archangel Gabriel a run for his money and he should not be allowed to run to the House of Lords . ’
27 Just to run to the end of his endurance — and then to go on .
28 Their first action had been to run to the comms unit , only to find it disabled .
29 I was still a bit sleepy and I hesitated a moment , not knowing whether to run to the bog or the bedroom .
30 But she did not wake and for a moment Henry was flooded by helpless rage , a feeling that made him want to run to the bedside table , snatch up Elinor 's nail scissors and twist them into her neck , this way and that , gouging out blood and veins .
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