Example sentences of "he had run " in BNC.
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| 1 | His 123 came out of 165 off 162 deliveries in 211 minutes ; a few months earlier in Australia he had run himself out on 99 in his desperation to reach the magic figure , but one would never have guessed it from the effortless way he swept there now . |
| 2 | Perhaps he had run into a pensioners ' outing . |
| 3 | Teleprompter himself was back to try to lift another mammoth American prize : but though he had run second to Shadeed in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot since his wonderful victory in Chicago , another English challenger , Shergar 's half-brother Shernazar , was more strongly fancied , for he had beaten Slip Anchor at Kempton Park in September . |
| 4 | On Forgive 'N Forget 's most recent outing he had run fourth behind Combs Ditch at Haydock Park , and that horse was also in the Gold Cup field , third favourite after a highly successful season which had brought him three good prizes and a neck defeat by Wayward Lad in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park . |
| 5 | AN insurance clerk told a jury yesterday he was unaware he had run down a mother and her two daughters as he tried to escape from a man in car who had threatened him . |
| 6 | Among these was young George Jefferies , who explained why he had run out of the shop in fear , and had only contacted the police on the advice of his friends and mother the following day . |
| 7 | The sight of them would be enough to give designers of air balls , gels and energy return systems the jitters , and although he has never measured his mileage , he estimated he had run at least 25,000 miles in them , and possibly more ! |
| 8 | Hoomey thought back , and could not remember having them when he had run home through the rain . |
| 9 | If he had run around the same time as Pocock ( 12 mins. 54 ) and Nash ( 12 mins. 59 ) , A.F.D. would have progressed comfortably into the top ten . |
| 10 | Twice he had seriously wounded men in duels , and finally he had run another junior officer through in a tavern brawl . |
| 11 | Mike Powell was handing over to me and in the general melee of the race he had run out of his box and I had run out of my lane , so we were disqualified twice ! |
| 12 | ‘ I was terrified — I saw a whole army of police arrive but he had run off . ’ |
| 13 | Christopher Hart told police he did not stop because he thought he had run over a cardboard box . |
| 14 | He told his girlfriend he thought he had run over a box . |
| 15 | He had by now forgotten the faces of many of the girls he had run around with , and Peter Dawson was dead , but there was still Isobel , the one steadying influence in his life . |
| 16 | Twice , when he had run out of ideas , he had driven the little Triumph out of the district to a coffee shop where he was not known , and had sat drinking coffee and talking to the men next to him at the counter , surprised to find himself accepted as a member of the grown-up world . |
| 17 | The shocked driver assumed that he had run over and killed someone on the line , but on investigation there was no injured person to be found . |
| 18 | He said he had run out of the cinema . |
| 19 | But before that he had run a real stinker in the Stewards ' Cup . |
| 20 | There was much disenchantment with the policies of the past ; he had won by a landslide in the Electoral College ; his party controlled the Senate ; he had run ahead of quite a few southern Democrats in the House and he was clearly an exceptional performer on television . |
| 21 | His parents had been killed during the Berlin blitz and after being shunted from one set of foster parents to another he had run away at the end of the war . |
| 22 | He had run away from his home in Chicago when he was fifteen and still bore the scars from the beating he had received at the hands of his father after his parents had discovered he was gay . |
| 23 | A man of various talents , he had run a ramshackle ship-chandlers establishment at Cyclops Wharf on the West Ferry Road . |
| 24 | Harold , rather forgetful of his purpose , proceeded to upbraid the guests in a positively violent fashion and then , when he had run out of personal ammunition , he said to Haines , ‘ Joe , tell them of any specific complaints that we have . |
| 25 | Mr Brownlow explained that he had run after the boy only because he saw him running away . |
| 26 | There was the path he had taken when he had run away . |
| 27 | He had run down the long corridors to the lounge and arrived just as the shuttle passengers were disembarking . |
| 28 | He had run himself out of breath and almost out of effort by then , but heaved a great sigh at having got the load from his shoulders . |
| 29 | If Kerrison were guilty , he had run little risk by calling in Greene . |
| 30 | Victorine said he had run down , like a watch . |