Example sentences of "run [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Ace was running from boulder to boulder along the summit of the ridge , stopping wherever she found good cover , just long enough to hurl one of her primitive looking grenades , or fire her blaster , or launch some kind of tiny projectile that Defries could n't see clearly .
2 The Cumbria Way is a marvellous route running from south to north across the Lake District National Park .
3 Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig 's other concern was to dislodge the Germans from their dominating positions on the ridge of high ground running from Westroosbeke to Broodseinde before winter set in .
4 You children were excited on the journey to Gibraltar and kept running from side to side of the boat looking out for the small destroyers that were guarding the convoy .
5 A gut , a large blood vessel and a nerve cord run from front to end through all the segments , linking and co-ordinating them .
6 There were plenty of conflicting stories about the way he got the scar that ran from temple to chin down the right side of his face .
7 Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths .
8 These marked lines ran from hilltop to hilltop like ‘ a fairy chain ’ .
9 ’ The little army was stirring to its feet , movement ran from front to back of the broad crowd like hackles rising .
10 Nenna felt tired , and sat down on the keelson , which ran from end to end of the flat-bottomed barge .
11 He ran from end to end of the yard and paused as he came back to the edge of the fire to peer down into a shattered mirror .
12 For those who do n't know it , the Haute Route runs from Chamonix to Zermatt in the Alps and is one of the best known routes in Europe .
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