Example sentences of "have run for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The scheme has run for three years and , during that time , around 180 dogs and bitches have been neutered . |
| 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 | Never having run for public office does not daunt this ‘ can-do ’ folk hero who once sent a team of ex-commandos into Iran to rescue two of his employees being held hostage . |
| 20 | HAVING run for office promising to reinvent everything from health care to youth training , Bill Clinton is now devoting most of his time to reinventing his five-month-old presidency . |
| 21 | Er Harry Truman could 've run for the presidency in nineteen fifty two but chose not to . |
| 22 | So great a flood … has been estimated to have run for 2 weeks . |
| 23 | Stockings were never long enough and the tension between suspender and stocking-top would result in spring-loaded legs ; if you had to run for a bus , the legs would keep going for three stops . |
| 24 | He had to run for his life as the battered blue vehicle bore down upon him . |
| 25 | ( Indicating costumes ) We had to run for it just as we were . |
| 26 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 27 | No sooner was I off the train than the guard blew the whistle and the train started and I had to run for it . |
| 28 | He had to run for his life . |
| 29 | He had to run for it . |
| 30 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |