Example sentences of "to run for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cat had done well to run for shelter … |
| 2 | THE Great North Run is nearly upon us , and I am writing to ask for help in finding a runner who is prepared to run for DIAL UK , the National Association of Information and Advice Lines . |
| 3 | Menem publicly stated on Aug. 12 that he wanted the Constitution to be amended in order to allow him to run for re-election . |
| 4 | He tried to run for help straight after the crash but then he saw Jason on the road and collapsed with the shock . |
| 5 | Every instinct tells us to run for cover : to withhold information , slash jobs and cut investment . |
| 6 | to run for cover so I held my hand over my face for a few moments before speaking . |
| 7 | All the fish in the country will have to run for cover after what happened to me this week ! |
| 8 | On a final afternoon in which lesser mortals might have wanted to run for cover the European team fought on even though at times its causes seemed hopeless . |
| 9 | Two hundred drinkers were forced to run for cover but she was unable to get clear and caught the full force of the blast . |
| 10 | In 1922 the Kerry Railway was absorbed by the GWR and in 1931 it was closed to passengers but continued to run for freight only as part of the BR ( Western Region ) from 1 January 1948 . |
| 11 | Although the Rev. Jesse Jackson had formally moved his address to Washington DC in 1989 — thereby making him eligible to run for mayor — he had persistently maintained that he would not stand against his " old friend " Barry . |
| 12 | SITTING in the antechamber to his congressional office , Stephen Solarz , the loquacious representative for New York 's 13th congressional district , is taking a five-minute lunch break and wondering whether to run for president . |
| 13 | ‘ The senator obviously just wants us to drown his children so they ca n't embarrass him when the time comes to run for President , ’ she told me next morning . |
| 14 | As the Clinton cavalcade approached the Old State House , on the steps of which he first announced he intended to run for President , a black choir sang America The Beautiful . |
| 15 | And one of the reasons I wanted to run for president is to open the floodgates for debating ideas so that we could try to change in the appropriate way . ’ |
| 16 | US columnist William Buckley Jr has worked out that if Electronic Data Systems Corp founder Ross Perot does decide to run for President , his commitment to spend $100m of his estimated $3,000m fortune on his campaign , it represents about 3% of his capital worth , about half what his wealth generates in a year , so that by election day in November , he will still be richer than he was when he started out . |
| 17 | The 23 prospective presidential candidates who had contested the discredited primaries would not be allowed to run for president the next time , and all were banned from political activity for the remainder of the transitional period . |
| 18 | A COMIC behind-the-scenes look at what it 's really like to run for President in the United States is offered in Feed ( BBC-2 , 11.55pm ) . |
| 19 | After a dozen years in the Arkansas state-house he decided to run for president at time when President George Bush 's re-election was considered virtually certain . |
| 20 | It is interesting that Cairns saw the pressure for ministers to run for office coming , not from ambitious ministers , but from party activists who thought that certain ministers would make good political leaders . |
| 21 | The ballot initiative , which limited State Assembly members to three two-year terms and state senators and most statewide elected officials to two four-year terms from 1991 onwards , was ruled a valid protection " against an entrenched dynastic legislative bureaucracy " ; the court rejected arguments from attorneys representing the legislature 's Democratic leadership that a legislator 's right to run for office and a voter 's right to choose a candidate would be unconstitutionally restricted . |