Example sentences of "run [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quarter of a million people live on work-house charity in England and child-beggars run free in the streets of London . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I wanted a really good box that I could work from , or that someone could work for me — which is what happens nine times out of ten — and then run direct into the amplifier without losing any gain , without gaining any hum and without losing any of the real naturalness of the Fender Strat and the Vox amp . ’ |
| 3 | CLOSE TO THE EDGE : The pair get physical as emotions run high in the heat |
| 4 | Sheen engineer Mr Doug Blackhurst designed , built , fires and helps to drive two twin-cylinder ten and a quarter inch gauge loco 's , ‘ Dove ’ and ‘ Manifold ’ , which run double-headed up the beautiful Manifold Valley which divides the Peak District counties of Staffordshire and Derbyshire . |
| 5 | This used to be a hell of a country , before we started letting red slits like you run loose in the streets frightening the children with their hammers and sickles . ’ |
| 6 | Indoors as well , because Tom and his wife Ray run one of the most comfortable and welcoming holiday centres in the north , the Birchbank Activity Holiday Lodge at Elphin . |
| 7 | ‘ There is no question , ’ John Welsby says , ‘ that we run one of the most cost-effective railway systems in the world . |
| 8 | Lee had inherited a little of his father 's Oriental patience — although he had never met his father , who had apparently run one of the infamous Opium Dens in Whitechapel — and was quite content to sit , absorb the heat , and listen to the soft ticking and creaking as the house settled , content in his own company . |
| 9 | I run one of the self-help groups that one of the ladies mentioned and we looked at an outsize catalogue recently and it went up to size twenty six and in some cases up to a size thirty and the ladies who modelled the clothes were no bigger than a twelve , possibly a fourteen , but a very shapely fourteen ! |
| 10 | Do you , for example , run any in the Manchester area where I have a house ? |
| 11 | In place of his old magical rhetoric , the president quietly joined the rough popular outcry against the Lebanese traders who run most of the businesses in the country and who help most politicians with their private affairs . |
| 12 | They run wild into the woods , filthy , skeletal and naked . |
| 13 | The course of the split varies from one Species to another ; in some its lateral arms run dorsal to the antennal insertions , in others it runs to them or below them . |