Example sentences of "[pron] have run for " in BNC.
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| 1 | No sooner was I off the train than the guard blew the whistle and the train started and I had to run for it . |
| 2 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |
| 3 | I have collected this catalogue from the dozens of workshops and courses I have run for teachers on the subject of stress . |
| 4 | Then , looking at me : ‘ It 's just an errand I have to run for … somebody . |
| 5 | Joan Knight will also be returning to the theatre which she has run for the last 25 years , Andrew McKinnon having invited her to direct Tally 's Blood . |
| 6 | She had run for the county particularly in cross country events . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | You have to run for it . |
| 9 | We had run for only a few hundred yards . |
| 10 | ( Indicating costumes ) We had to run for it just as we were . |
| 11 | They had run for shelter in a tiny cave on the side of the valley a second after the storm had begun . |
| 12 | They had run for the woods in what they stood up in . |
| 13 | Sometime this year , when they find the five-bedroom house and 100 acres or so they want , they will take themselves and the building business they have run for 10 years down there permanently . |
| 14 | The Thompsons ' lease expires in late June and the couple say they have no choice but to leave the pub they have run for more than 15 years . |
| 15 | The Committee made no reference to complaints from Members , although the IBA survey showed that the percentage of MPs who found the Chamber too hot rose from 9 before the experiment to 36 after it had run for four months . |
| 16 | And they had got this contract for this er this lawyer who there was a great big er case it had run for long enough . |
| 17 | They had smoked him out and now he had run for home in High Wood . |
| 18 | He had to run for his life as the battered blue vehicle bore down upon him . |
| 19 | He disapproved of the casual obscenity of barrack-room conversation , but as he groped for words to express his triumphant passion , he found to his surprise that he could not say them to Bridget They would sound to her like a string of incoherent obscenities : — the Army and — second stag on East Wing Guard and — Sergeant Towser who cancelled his last leave pass and — the troop train back to Catterick on Sunday night and — the cold walk from the station to the camp and — the platform where he kissed Bridget good-bye at the end of leave and — the street corner where he had to run for his bus and — the Teddy-boy who had attacked her and — all the people and all the regulations and all the time-tables and all the clocks that had tried for so long to stop them from having this . |
| 20 | He had to run for his life . |
| 21 | He had to run for it . |
| 22 | And he 's erm when we were thinking about tax planning , I was thinking that if a , a , a qualifying endowment , if it 's run for ten years , the one big advantage is that it always pays without deduction of tax . |