Example sentences of "who have run [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This other woman who is n't you and who has run away with Garry in your place . |
| 2 | She pointed out how to deal with a child , for example , who has run away near a busy road : ‘ You should explain to a child that it is creating danger , or is in a dangerous situation . |
| 3 | ‘ For instance , should a child who has run away from home ring and ask that their parents be contacted , then the counsellors will do that and tell the mum and dad concerned where the child is , ’ she says . |
| 4 | It was he who had run ahead in pursuit of the horses , and it was he whose eyes now most keenly searched the forest edge . |
| 5 | Jane found solace in the humour and support of the local people : Davyd , Meryvn , the clever Henry , aged sixty-eight but very spry , who had run away to sea at fifteen , and did everything so well and systematically — shipshape , in fact . |
| 6 | , Norman Hector Leifchild ( ‘ Nathaniel ’ ) ( 1893–1976 ) , humorous columnist , was born 31 May 1893 at 4 Somerset Road , Ealing , Middlesex , the only surviving son ( there were also three older daughters , of whom the younger two were twins ) of William Gubbins , commercial traveller , formerly an Oxfordshire farmworker who had run away to London at the age of twelve to sell groceries , and his wife Marie Cecile Richards . |
| 7 | But the office , where he was an unelevated lazy Indian who had run away from his wife and children , there was disapproval from the clerks he worked with : there was mockery behind his back and in front of his face . |
| 8 | Some might have taken him for a mere apprentice enchanter who had run away from his master out of defiance , boredom , fear and a lingering taste for heterosexuality . |
| 9 | In Bradford , underground networks of Muslim men try to track down women and girls who have run away from their families , and many Asian taxi drivers carry pictures of missing girls so they can ‘ rescue ’ them if spotted . |