Example sentences of "to run for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This was intended to run for a term of 15 years , yielding a Royalty of one-twelfth during the first two years , and a tenth part thereafter , " … sufficiently washed cleansed and made merchanteable … |
2 | How the fuck are you supposed to run for a bus in this was what I thought — a bit more down-to-earth than Malcolm and Vivienne . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Enter Rita , a young , timid , nervous , woman in clinging red dress , lipstick to match and a pair of shoes in which you would not want to run for a bus . |
5 | Unfortunately , once the initial silting has taken place , the weathering of the ditch is very slow , and such experiments need to run for a period of over a hundred years to gain the maximum results . |
6 | ‘ Would you like to run for the school ? ’ |
7 | ‘ Would you like to run for the school ? ’ |
8 | A ‘ Coronation ’ tram , No 1174 , swayed into view and he began to run for the stop . |
9 | She is a wooden ship , not unlike the old clippers we used to run for the grain trade before World War I , but she is at least a century older . |
10 | Any citizen aged between 40 and 65 would be eligible to run for the presidency , provided he or she was proposed by at least 5,000 people , at least 200 of them from each province . |
11 | Many commentators interpreted his decision to run for the council as a means of preserving his extensive political machine while also providing a platform within the city government from which he could launch a future mayoral bid . |
12 | But we have to have some spare capacity in case we want to run for the bus or climb Everest ( where the air is less oxygen-rich ) . |
13 | Mitchel McLaughlin revealed that the party will be nominating former blanket-protest prisoner Cathal Crumley to run for the party in the October poll . |
14 | Victoria Woodhull Claffin — later 19th Century free-thinking radical feminist who was the first woman to run for the office of United States President over 30 years before women 's suffrage . |
15 | He was widely believed to be preparing to run for the post of President of the Republic , a post which would entail his departure from the trade union leadership . |
16 | He was a financial and moral pillar of the Catholic Church , and Mary Rose devoted herself to committees and fund-raising when he decided to run for the Senate . |
17 | Acting Attorney General since Dick Thornburgh resigned the post to run for the Senate [ for his announcement in June p. 38279 ] , Barr was a strong supporter of tougher law-and-order measures . |
18 | Mr North , whose conviction in the Iran-Contra scandal was dismissed by a federal appeals court , is widely expected to run for the Senate as a Republican from Virginia . |