Example sentences of "[verb] run the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the Japanese parent wants to run the whole show here and Mr Botnar , not unnaturally , is digging in his heels . |
| 2 | A family which has run the same pub for two hundred and fifty years is holding a week of celebrations … |
| 3 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 4 | Those who delight in complexities and wish to pursue the matter further will find a number of adequate textbooks and sources of information which will be pointed out with fiendish delight by any qualified librarian , since he has had to run the whole gamut in preparing for his examinations . |
| 5 | The luck began to run the other way and we made a bit of a fortune that six months . |
| 6 | You do not want to run the appreciable risk of making a bad mistake before your new career has really started . |
| 7 | The strong Ferrari team decided to run the entire race non-stop without pit stops for refuelling or tyre changes , while Maserati , and Fangio , decided to run on half fuel , and then refill . |
| 8 | It would have run the other way if it had heard me coming . |
| 9 | Similarly , in shaping the format and means of communicating plans and performance down to managers , ‘ having run the retail operation at TSB I appreciate the needs of the front-end operation and the importance of giving people the information that really matters to them with the right commentary . |
| 10 | Try running the complete program and observe the effect of : Suspending ( |
| 11 | Mr Ushida became the youngest branch manager in Daiwa 's history when , at 31 , he was appointed to run the Omori branch in 1990 . |
| 12 | Gordon enjoys running the small bar and serving in the dining room which his wife says he took to like a ‘ duck to water ’ . |
| 13 | The Long family continued to run the latter mill up to the end of the 19th century , hut by 1870 New Mills had been taken over and substantially reorganised by Tubbs and Lewis , who converted it to production of elasticated fabric . |
| 14 | However John Bullock , retail fuels technical manager at Shell UK , says the price of the fuel would rise significantly , because extra crude would have to be refined to run the hydro-desulphurisation process . |
| 15 | Davenport continues to run the Royal Oak , while the other hotels are run by salaried managers , who report directly to him . |
| 16 | The man who had run the neighbouring Radio Clyde in Glasgow moved south to London 's Capital Radio . |
| 17 | By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover . |
| 18 | ‘ Will you help run the lucky dip stall at the summer fayre from 1 pm until 3.30pm ? ’ is more likely to get a positive answer than a general plea for help with the summer fayre . |
| 19 | They have to run the beastly place and do all the work . ’ |
| 20 | Shirley wanted to run the other way , but very bravely she set off after Heather . |
| 21 | Initially , New Zealand , Canada and Argentina , who celebrate their centenary in 1999 , also wanted to run the next tournament , which is played on a four-year cycle . |
| 22 | I felt that he thought I wanted to run the last leg for the glory . |
| 23 | We have run the whole gamut of colour with the post-war American varieties , then the swing back to Europe for scent with the colour , then the bi-colour with the petals showing contrasting colours on each side , revealed so attractively as the petals curl back on themselves . |