Example sentences of "[noun sg] that have been run " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I 'm running , I feel like I am a machine , like a new car that has been run in well . |
| 2 | When Daine had first come to the City , he had — I knew for a fact — taken over a large proportion of the vice business that had been run by Paul Muni , a mobster whose empire had fallen thanks mainly to the investigative efforts and single-mindedness of — you guessed it — criminologist Claude Rains . |
| 3 | She blinked and looked demurely down at the grey and red carpet which squelched across the floor like a rabbit that had been run over by a lorry . |
| 4 | While you were missing , I had to deal with a dog that had been run over . ’ |
| 5 | The UK government measures the lead in tapwater that has been running for several minutes , as it would be if you had a bath in it , and not the first few pints or cupfuls , as you would use for cooking or making a cup of tea . |
| 6 | FOR a country that has been run by soldiers for nearly a decade , Nigeria shows little enthusiasm for the elections due on June 12th . |
| 7 | The reporter signed off , and Kathleen stared at the screen as Jack 's image was replaced by the film that had been running . |
| 8 | Any tank that has been running for several months in a typical down-flow system will eventually become clogged and packed down . |