Example sentences of "[pron] run [adv prt] the " in BNC.

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1 I run up the open wooden steps to the office to ask the price of a self-catering suite .
2 I run down the spiral staircase and along the empty corridor .
3 Yea , though I run down the valleys , I am Towed up the hills .
4 I run along the platform with the train , and thump again .
5 ‘ So , I run out the café .
6 On another occasion he gave chase to someone running down the platform but when he reached the platform end whoever it was or was n't had vanished .
7 I ran up the island 's Caribbean coast , catching sight of white sandy beaches in the gaps between buildings .
8 er if it 's people give you things like reference lists and reading lists , I mean sometimes that 's the most confusing thing to be given because you do n't know , I used to think you were supposed to read everything on them er and I actually tried doing that once or twice and I could n't find stuff in Aston library so I ran up the er town library and went to Birmingham University library and then I got back the next week and I realized that I was about the only person who 'd actually done that and other people had n't
9 ‘ Once I hit the 2O mile mark I started to feel stronger and my speed picked up slightly , but as I ran up the Mall towards Buckingham Palace I discovered a new meaning to the word pain .
10 I was actually flashed at er in the library and what I thought of I would of done was completely different to what I actually did , erm , I thought I would of been quite calm about it , but in fact I ran out the library and I ran straight back to my flat erm , I was at that point I think about twenty one
11 I ran down the pavement to get as far away from the hotel as I could , then I sat down in a doorway and continued crying .
12 If anything the sound seemed to become louder as I ran down the deck .
13 I ran down the next flight of stairs and knocked on Mavis 's door .
14 The birds had told me Diggs had left a few minutes earlier , so I ran back the quick way to the house , where the lights all burned as usual .
15 Cawthorne had disappeared around the northern end of the farmhouse , so I ran back the way I had come , around the south end and climbed the fence back into the hop field .
16 Surely both vase-paintings and metopes ( which run over the middle and later decades of the century ) owe much to great wall-paintings in Corinth .
17 Their lateral line organs are buried in canals which run along the head and body , and open into the water through pores .
18 The Mid-Atlantic Ridge will play an important part in our study of the nature of volcanism , and so will another , the East Pacific Rise , which runs up the eastern Pacific , and eventually intersects the North American continent in the vicinity of California .
19 Then , with the panel firmly secured in place , you run along the wall or ceiling with the block of wood and a pencil : the resultant cutting line will follow exactly the profile of the wall or ceiling .
20 You run down the metal fire escape on the gable end of the building .
21 Whatever else was wrong with him he was at least honest , Carrie thought as she ran up the town .
22 As she ran up the garden , her legs felt soft and boneless under her ; she had the terrible feeling that they might collapse altogether if she did n't hurry and find somewhere private , somewhere nice and safe and dark .
23 Cos she ran up the garden .
24 The swallows flitted round Marie as she ran down the bank .
25 Then she ran down the post to the ground below .
26 She had to blink back her tears before she opened the front door , and then she ran down the short tiled path , and , throwing back her shoulders and digging her hands into her pockets , strode down to the parade .
27 For just a few seconds she stood petrified ; then , taking a deep , shuddering breath , she ran down the entry and into Lyra Street .
28 Guiltily she ran down the bouncing shallow steps , jarring them as hard as she could to off-balance the last man on his feet .
29 In the dark , panic-stricken by what she 'd done , she ran down the wrong passage , towards the sea instead of towards the land , slipped and fell to her death on the rocks below . ’
30 Leaving this area of the house behind her , she ran down the passage as far as the open pantry door .
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