Example sentences of "run [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many younger old people run clubs for the elderly and help organize meals services . |
| 2 | Police are still hunting the hit and run driver of the Nissan . |
| 3 | Snotty-nosed , wild-haired traveller 's children Ossie , played by Ciaran Fitzgerald , and Tito ( Ruaidhri Conroy ) run riot through the peeling tenements of Dublin , begging on the streets and spitting at campfires . |
| 4 | Scent and colour still run riot in the gardens and in early July this , and Ravello 's cathedral , become venues for a Wagner music festival . |
| 5 | And we run Sherburn in the summer . |
| 6 | Worthless character had now run foul of the law and was willing to take one final payment , enough to get him out of the State , and out of her life for ever . |
| 7 | In a move against the activities of fundamentalist preachers , the government was reported on Nov. 11 to be putting privately run mosques under the control of the Ministry of Waqfs ( Religious Endowments ) . |
| 8 | Newspapers in French-speaking Africa increasingly run stories about the need for a devaluation to rescue their economies . |
| 9 | Despite the reservations of his trainer he next went for the Melbourne Cup : he started even-money favourite , but pulled his way to the front in a slowly run race against the wishes of his jockey and faded in the straight to finish third . |
| 10 | We will resist Commission initiatives which run counter to the principle that issues should be dealt with on a national basis wherever possible . |
| 11 | But these results run counter to the differentiation theory . |
| 12 | One final comment , I have gained the impression from the correspondence in New Scientist that the statements of Associated 0ctel and of the petroleum industry are rejected largely because they have a vested interest , but also because they run counter to the ideas of correspondents . |
| 13 | We now turn to an alternative , fairly recent , intellectual tradition which emphasises the conflict of interests in the work-place and suggests that management , on behalf of capitalist interests , have moulded technical developments so that they suit these interests and run counter to the interests of labour . |
| 14 | Now it may be quite legitimate to point out that this or that minority group has vested interests which run counter to the interest or good of the great majority . |
| 15 | Other forms of inequality , social , racial and sexual , also run counter to the principle of political equality . |
| 16 | Neither do the Somali Patriotic Movement or the S.N.M. They argue that the appointments run counter to the U.S.C. , S.N.M. and S.P.M. agreement of 2 October 1990 . |
| 17 | The Malaysian Foreign Minister , Abu Hassan Omar , said that US military visits to Singapore would be closely monitored , adding that any move towards setting up a permanent US base would be unacceptable and run counter to the ASEAN goal of establishing a zone of peace , freedom and neutrality . |
| 18 | For one participant , the lesson of the Franks Report was the dangerous degree to which civil servants run policy on the intelligence side : ‘ Ministers should meet and say ‘ we have heard what you think but our view is … – . ’ |
| 19 | It had been switched off after two senior doctors had twice run tests on the patient before declaring him dead . |
| 20 | Company magazine has actually run competitions for the most unusual and creative space bought in the magazine . |