Example sentences of "run [adv] [prep] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes there is a single vertical bar running right through it to obscure it . |
| 2 | The incentive for Preston to win was to go top of the table … enough said in the second half Ellis ran away with it to make it three-nil … |
| 3 | Cleveland police say the girl grabbed her shopping bag , fished out the purse and ran off with it joined by another girl . |
| 4 | The dialogue which ran up to it showed good pace , and the strength of the star 's performance , absent in recent days , began again to show through . |
| 5 | But its brightness was dimming quickly and its shafts withdrawing from the near buildings and then further and further away across the roofs , so that she ran out into it to catch some before it should go beyond her reach . |
| 6 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |