Example sentences of "have run [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave , 45 , who has run 42 marathons , will wear top hat , tails … and shorts . |
| 2 | He has run 165 marathons , 76 half-marathons , nine 61-milers , 13 30-milers and 13 25-milers — and he did n't do his first marathon until shortly before his 60th birthday . |
| 3 | Retiring players will not be penalised if their failure to retire 10 metres is due to the rapidity with which the kick has been taken , but they may not stop retiring and enter the game until an opponent carrying the ball has run five metres ’ . |
| 4 | Access courses for Namibians WUS(UK) has run two special scholarship programmes in the United Kingdom for Namibians forced to leave their country before independence and take refuge in the front-line states . |
| 5 | Headford Arms , an October 1990 Balalaika dog now trained by David Connor , went for a four-figure sum and has run impressive trials . |
| 6 | Music Geoff Dyer laments that Bruce Springsteen 's river has run dry : Roderic Dunnett remembers the scandal of Schoenberg |
| 7 | The pen has run dry three times in writing a short address . |
| 8 | Since qualifying in 1968 Margaret has run many classes in the Redhill area and become a Medau trainer in 1972 . |
| 9 | UPS is also experimenting with compressed natural gas , propane , and has run battery-powered and methanol-fuelled vehicles . |
| 10 | You had one very good piece of news , which was ‘ During the past year the Environmental Health Department has run fifteen courses for food handlers , and one hundred and eighty-seven people have passed the examination . ’ |
| 11 | The protesters , from the Peace Train Organisation which has run six trains along the Dublin to Belfast line , the main rail link between north and south , were collecting signatures for a peace declaration in Dublin 's city centre yesterday . |
| 12 | There was no immediate word of a replacement for Mr Burbulis , who in the absence of a formal Prime Minister has run day-to-day government business . |
| 13 | Intel has run some SPEC system benchmarks of SVR4.2 on a 50MHz 486dx , probably the first of their kind anywhere , and come up with some interesting results . |
| 14 | If , however , you find that time has run short for the last answer , the best course is to reduce the answer to bare note form , using as many key headings as possible and abbreviating freely . |
| 15 | The two tower alone in a dingy apartment but perhaps they are really inside a womb which has run short of amniotic fluids . |
| 16 | Then Lady Walters and Miss Rosamond Wynn-Pope who is the indefatigable honorary organiser , and has run this ball so efficiently for the past fifteen years , drew the winning tickets for the raffle . |
| 17 | Perhaps you were weak and could not refuse this man because your ancient noble blood has run thin , because your family is no good any more . |
| 18 | Sandra Bates is a trained caterer who has run three restaurants . |
| 19 | Since 1980 , MacDonald has run three companies . |
| 20 | He is also interested in rugby , tennis , and jogging and has run three Dublin City Marathons . |
| 21 | The marathon fund-raising event has run three times since 1988 . |
| 22 | The Prince 's racing manager , Grant Pritchard-Gordon , said : ‘ He has run three times on soft and each run has proved conclusively that he does n't like it . ’ |
| 23 | They even appear on Nashville 's Grand Ole Opry , the live radio show that has run weekly since 1925 , where they share the stage with revered old-timers . |
| 24 | Then one of the kids yells that the tap has run cold , and they turn it off and bathroom and shuts the door , and the kids shriek in the water and I drift slowly back to our bedroom where it 's quiet and drab . |
| 25 | He must have run all the way from the car park . |
| 26 | Once a guy came running after me , he must have run fifty yards up the road , but I had to ignore it , because I ca n't be big-headed enough to turn round and go , ‘ Oh , he 's running after me . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He was yelling out in terror and must have run 50 yards before two blokes caught him and rolled him about the pavement to put the flames out . ’ |
| 28 | Must have run defrosted . |
| 29 | ‘ I could have run faster but I did not have the confidence to go at 14 miles , ’ said Evans . |
| 30 | Then there had been Paul 's breakdown , and Nathan Holland had been invaluable there also ; she would have run mad without him . |