Example sentences of "he runs [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you will see in the final reading from Gowie Corby Plays Chicken nobody w ill put up with Gowie 's cruel jokes for ever and it 's not long before people 's patience with him runs out . |
| 2 | He runs downhill , loving the feel of the air rushing past him . |
| 3 | At best man ‘ idolized by all … feels an irresistible impulse to confer upon them fresh benefits … and he runs on in his magnanimous career with alacrity and joy ’ . |
| 4 | Big Dessie , he come into work one day , he was and he come into I 'll see you in a minute Raymond , flew into the kitchen , and he runs past with a bo bottle of water and I goes out and he 's scrubbing the front passage you see . |
| 5 | When , in One Hundred Years of Solitude , the last Aureliano Buendía tries to persuade others of the truth of his version of certain events , he runs up against the scepticism of the local priest who , ironically , is conspicuously lacking in the certainties which he is supposed to embody : |
| 6 | The encores are covers — Jim Bob playfully changes the lyric to ‘ Prince In A Pauper 's Grave ’ to ‘ He runs up a bill Ross Perot could n't pay ’ and ‘ GI Blues ’ is a singalong for the UK indie kid lookalikes among the fashion casualties , Harvard students and snogging couples . |
| 7 | I mean he runs up and down , he it used to be lovely , all the grass . |
| 8 | There 's aids and he 's chasing the bum and the bum 's running and the aids is going come on you little bastard and he 's going leave me alone and so he runs up a tree and there 's a bird there and he 's got all bones on him , he 's a s witch doctor and the bird goes , and the bird goes , what 's a matter ? |
| 9 | In fact , it might be worth having an ante-post bet before he runs here for should he win or figure promisingly , the 33–1 currently on offer will dry up quickly ! |
| 10 | Interestingly Tom Jones told me , ‘ Even if he runs well I might miss Cheltenham with him and keep him fresh for another good race at the Grand National meeting at Aintree . ’ |
| 11 | Quick as a flash , he shoots an arrow , but when he runs forward , he finds nothing but a stringy tree-rat . |
| 12 | ‘ So he runs slowly on a ball . |
| 13 | We just keep him busy on the racecourse and he runs again at Goodwood next weekend . ’ |
| 14 | He runs around in a dazzle-painted sports-fisherman called Dream Baby . ’ |
| 15 | He runs straight up the stone steps leading to the terrace — it 's part of a small public garden — rounds the urn at the top , and comes face to face with her , with no idea at all inside his head as to what words will emerge from his mouth . |
| 16 | He runs away to the city where he is taken in by The Old Lady . |
| 17 | ‘ He does n't usually get hacked out because he 's dreadful ; he runs away , and ‘ passages ’ for a mile or so . |
| 18 | When his vixen wife 's pregnancy turns out to be a phantom one , and he has to return to her bed , he runs away from home , taking refuge in his girlfriend 's apartment . |
| 19 | Take me to meet your uncle — before he runs away . ’ |
| 20 | Stella gave a teasing laugh as she said , ‘ Everyone at the Wilderness knows that he runs away from women — but one day he 'll be caught . |
| 21 | Sad tale of the runaway slave and so on , separated from his family and his children and he runs away |
| 22 | He runs away along with Lydia with no idea of marrying her at all and is forced to marry Lydia by Mr. Darcy becoming between them . |
| 23 | A husky laugh and he runs off to try out the gag on a wheel-chaired pallid little pal , recovering from a recent kidney transplant . |
| 24 | Yes I thought er you know Paul said he runs off does n't he ? |
| 25 | I know , I know , 1 hear you say , this precious Boy of yours surely has no imagination if he is content with the first place he finds and the very first crowd of men that he runs across . |
| 26 | The roly-poly goalie makes heads turn on away grounds when he runs out , and some of his diving stops have been measured on the Richter Scale , but his performances invariably win respect from opponents and spectators . |
| 27 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 28 | A grateful Niki coasts towards the finish , with Nelson , a lap down , riding pillion behind him , as though to push him across the line if he runs out of fuel . |
| 29 | He runs out into the corridor and collides with his friend Richard , who is carrying a chessboard , and the pieces scatter over the floor . |
| 30 | You 're in the nearside lane and you 're going uphill and er you 're trunking away quite nicely , you see a guy coming down in the fast lane , down the hill getting a bit of a roll on , fully laden , and he gets halfway up the hill , he runs out of steam and he 's looking for a hole to get into . |