Example sentences of "ran the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holding her shoes in one hand , she ran the other down over her body to one thigh , then back to her head and through her cropped blonde hair . |
| 2 | Road haulage overtook rail as a carrier of freight in 1959 in Spain and in 1957 in Britain ( by which time BTC no longer ran the road haulage industry ) . |
| 3 | A steady stream of steam-laden air gushed out from the kitchen and Carrie frequently ran the back of her hand across her hot forehead as she struggled to cope with the customers ' demands . |
| 4 | He reached out and ran the back of his hand down her thigh . |
| 5 | He practically ran the church , especially now that Nahum was away so much on Foundling Hospital business , and Sarah felt sorry for him . |
| 6 | Fly ran the Hackney branch of a chainstore opticians and we went back quite a long way together as OADFs go . |
| 7 | His father and I owned and ran the Ontario Raceworld magazine for years before we sold it to a conglomerate . ’ |
| 8 | However , the last West Country-hauled Waterloo to Salisbury service ran the day before with the 18.45 being headed by No. 34025 ‘ Whimple ’ . |
| 9 | The difference was that until 1688 loans had been made directly to the King : he ran the government as an extension of his private household and , although he was the richest individual in the country , he was in many ways just a private borrower like any other and a prudent lender would not trust him with a loan that would run for a long time . |
| 10 | Local people ran the opening two words together . |
| 11 | Notice also that there is an alternative and syntactically simpler way of expressing the second version , which is : ( 12 ) Haberup angered his golem We can see exactly the same type of ambiguity in : ( 13 ) Reg ran the engine dry The adverbal adjective version of ( 13 ) corresponding to the question what did Reg do to the engine ? tells us that Reg reduced the engine to a certain unsatisfactory state ( though he may at least have had the sense to stop at that point ) . |
| 12 | As her mother 's name was the same as her own , it has been mistakenly assumed that Mrs Coade , the mother , ran the factory until her death in 1796 , but ‘ Mrs ’ was a courtesy title for any unmarried woman in business at that time , and bills show that Miss Coade was in charge from 1771 . |
| 13 | He approached and ran the circuit detector over Quinn 's body from head to foot . |
| 14 | Anthony Saxton 's management training began with a major international cosmetics company , and he became Managing Director of an advertising agency before joining John Stork in 1978 , where he ran the UK division . |
| 15 | Her heart leaped and she ran the rest of the way like a child in her delight . |
| 16 | Then I ran the rest of the way just in case she 'd heard . |
| 17 | The Newsletter ran the story under the headline : BATONS IN CITY STREET BATTLE : EIGHT ARRESTED AFTER CLASHES PAISLEY MARCH MEETS MOB VIOLENCE GOVERNOR FACES STORM OF ABUSE |
| 18 | British and Canadian press responses to the Heysel Stadium tragedy are considered by Young ( 1986 ) , who notes how newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic ran the story for a whole month , dwarfing coverage of the Bangladesh cyclone which resulted in many thousands of deaths . |
| 19 | This evening , his lift was Mike Vinson who worked as an electrician for a firm in Woodborough and ran the Loxford cricket team . |
| 20 | Celia , who had trained as a physical education instructor , now ran the Loxford parish Guides , a swimming group for the disabled , and was Peter 's Deanery Secretary . |
| 21 | They certainly helped Mrs Robertson and her team from our own Church , and Guild members who ran the Baking Stall , to create the lovely atmosphere that was noticed by all who visited The Undercroft during the Week . |
| 22 | In 1891 the landlord was Jeremiah Addison , who ran the Theatre Royal in Bishop Auckland with his brother . |
| 23 | In time , so ran the hope , the three sides could talk out lasting solutions . |
| 24 | And of Katherine Hepburn : ‘ She ran the gamut of expressions from A to B. ’ One-liners that catch the eye include : The best play I ever slept through ; I 've seen more excitement at the opening of an umbrella ; I saw the play at a disadvantage — the curtain was up ; The scenery was beautiful but the actors got in front of it ; When Mr Wilbur calls his play Halfway to Hell , he underestimates the distance . ’ |
| 25 | Young women meanwhile ran the gamut of possibilities from the Third World 's untapped richness of natural fabrics and ethnic styles , with varied but usually voluminous results . |
| 26 | According to Sir Claus , who ran the services from 1967 to 1978 : ‘ Before the Rayner Review the purpose of the government statistical services was to serve several masters , first and foremost — and this was never in doubt - the Government ; but also industry , academics the public , indeed the whole nation … |
| 27 | ‘ Mr Howard : We will hear no more of the matter ’ , ran the caption under his photograph . |
| 28 | Yuill and Dodds , which ran the miners ' gauntlet to deliver supplies to British Steel during the 1985 strike , was convicted at Linlithgow Sheriff Court in October on 36 charges of allowing drivers to exceed permitted hours and to take insufficient breaks . |
| 29 | ‘ I cleared out with four laps to go , ’ said Murray , whose time was almost identical to that she set outdoors in Belfast last August , the last time she ran the distance . |
| 30 | The obligation of the bath Mrs Webster never failed to observe , though she did not trust me to keep to the statutory four inches , but ran the water in for me , adding , in spite of my protests , a most nauseous soap powder . |