Example sentences of "to run [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mohammed Azharuddin was slightly hurt when struck on the elbow by a stone while fielding , prompting the visiting team to run off the field through a hail of rocks and oranges . |
| 2 | ‘ We would have converted it to run off the engine , but the trouble is that if the engine broke down , you would n't be able to get the bonnet up to look at it ! ’ |
| 3 | He told a senior colleague there was only one place on that particular fifteen-mile stretch of road where a lorry might be expected to run off it , at a bend where the camber of the road sloped to a ditch . |
| 4 | If I did marry Parr , and had two little children and made a lovely home , I 'd be allowed to run off the rails a bit , so long I was discreet . |
| 5 | want to run about a muddy field and think it 's fun they should do so ! |
| 6 | I hardly think that I 'm able to run about banging doors at four o'clock in the morning . |
| 7 | This is the chance for would be ‘ Rambos ’ or ‘ Arnold Schwarzennegers ’ to run about the woods armed with paint ball markers and get to shoot people . |
| 8 | to the stage now where I do n't want to run about |
| 9 | She would have to start working only with the new-born in the new neo-natal unit at Middlesbrough General Hospital which she was initially recruited to run as part of her job . |
| 10 | To run as a spoiler , simply to block Michael Heseltine 's ambition to become leader , is another option he has voiced . |
| 11 | Robb said that he , too , was running as a Republican in elections for the state legislature in Little Rock , but the Republican Party was resisting his plan to run as an official candidate . |
| 12 | Younger potential leaders such as Mr Tony Blair , 38 , the employment spokesman , and Mr Gordon Brown , 41 , trade and industry spokesman , are expected to back Mr Smith and one or the other might be persuaded to run as his deputy . |
| 13 | ‘ Non-fuel ’ running costs , for example , had risen from $25 per kilowatt of capacity in 1974 to $94 in 1984 , making nuclear plants about as expensive to run as coal . |
| 14 | Bristol Technology Inc , Ridgefield , Connecticut , has announced the availability of its Wind/U , a $10,000 program that enables Microsoft Corp Windows applications to run as native OSF/Motif Unix applications : Windows applications converted for Unix will maintain their Windows functionality , including features such as PostScript , combo boxes , multiple document interfaces and dynamic data exchange . |
| 15 | The little-heard-of TP monitor allows Oracle Corp and Informix Corp database packages to run as hardware-independent applications in client/server mode , according to SNI . |
| 16 | Bristol Technology Inc , Ridgefield , Connecticut , has announced the availability of its Wind/U , software ( UX No 385 ) that enables Microsoft Corp Windows applications to run as native Unix/Motif-based applications . |
| 17 | SVR4.2 , with its integral desktop manager , optimised performance , and modularity that allows it to run as a client in only 4Mb memory , 60Mb disk — highly impressive when compared to its current competitor , OS/2 — ships in July in source code form for OEMs , in its Intel version only , for AT , EISA and MCA buses . |
| 18 | Fuel consumption is good , especially from the larger BMW that 's said to cost about half as much to run as the old 5-series . |
| 19 | The most unprofitable services were singled out as ‘ stopping trains ’ , which made enormous losses and cost almost twice as much to run as revenue received from them . |
| 20 | The campaigns were designed to run as television or cinema commercials and as large street hoardings — media that is seen by people in groups rather than in isolation as would be the case of newspapers . |
| 21 | Keen to secure the support of the NP , she rejoined the party in January 1992 and suggested that she was willing to run as Vice-President to Cojuangco or Enrile . |
| 22 | Suzanne is back in full training following a complete two-week break , while Jenny plans to run as a guest in the North West cross-country league meeting at Hyndburn this weekend to help her preparations . |
| 23 | According to Commission sources , the US negotiators have recently offered the EC 7 per cent of the market in a new agreement to run for two and a half years . |
| 24 | He 's fit and ready to run for his life . |
| 25 | In the report CNP calls for a number of proposals including — abandoning the 1998 deadline for renewable energy subsidies ; enabling grants to run for 15 years from the start of any one project ; issuing planning policy guidance on how to deal with planning applications , and giving encouragement to offshore wind generation which they claim could provide 50% of energy needs . |
| 26 | How the fuck are you supposed to run for a bus in this was what I thought — a bit more down-to-earth than Malcolm and Vivienne . |
| 27 | To run for St. John Ambulance simply complete the form below and send it in to our Marathon team . |
| 28 | DARREN HALL , seemingly able to run for ever , won the Oracle English National Championship for the fourth time in five years at Crawley last night . |
| 29 | SITTING in the antechamber to his congressional office , Stephen Solarz , the loquacious representative for New York 's 13th congressional district , is taking a five-minute lunch break and wondering whether to run for president . |
| 30 | It is interesting that Cairns saw the pressure for ministers to run for office coming , not from ambitious ministers , but from party activists who thought that certain ministers would make good political leaders . |