Example sentences of "[vb pp] to run on [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I had never been told to run on duty .
2 In the Midlands a Vauxhall midi van and an electronic fuel injection transit have been converted to run on gas for testing and as demonstration vehicles .
3 Trolleybuses ceased to run on route 654 on the night of Tuesday 3 March 1959 , when an official last run was made at the instigation of the Wallington and Carshalton Advertiser .
4 According to MacGregor , the plants could be revived to run on coal .
5 The doomed pigs were grabbed by their hind legs and forced to run on tip-toe down the sloping backyard or along the crazy paving on the front terrace .
6 Within ten years 40 per cent of cars , 70 per cent of trucks and all buses will be forced to run on methanol , natural gas or electricity .
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