Example sentences of "run [adv] off the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE QE2 's owners Cunard have hit back after a US federal review board blamed confusion and poor communication for the world 's largest liner running aground off the US east coast last summer . |
| 2 | THE liner QE2 , which ran aground off the US coast three weeks ago , will cruise again on October 4 after repairs . |
| 3 | On June 24 some 3,400 Somali refugees were brought ashore in Yemen after the ship in which they had left Mogadishu two weeks earlier , the Gob Wien , ran aground off the port of Aden . |
| 4 | The Amoco Corporation , owner of the Amoco Cadiz tanker which caused one of the worst oil spills in history when it ran aground off the French coast in 1978 , has agreed to make a further payment relating to the accident . |
| 5 | The Liberian-registered tanker Braer ran aground off the southern tip of the Shetland Islands on January 5 after its engines failed in very heavy weather . |
| 6 | The amount of oil spilt was twice as much as the Exxon Valdez which ran aground off Alaska in 1989 , and slightly more than Aegean Sea which ran aground off the Spanish coast in December [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
| 7 | Tough rule , to bowl to the er new batsman Mahammama , that 's his first delivery and he stands rather quickly at that one down on the leg stump , runs away off the pad , there 's a shout , I think more of anguish from Tufnell than er conviction . |
| 8 | Over half the nitrogen runs straight off the land , from natural sources or fertilisers . |