Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] the run [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOUR remand prisoners were on the run last night after they attacked prison officers and jumped handcuffed through a smashed window of a moving coach . |
| 2 | FOUR remand prisoners were on the run last night after they attacked prison officers and jumped handcuffed through the smashed window of a moving coach . |
| 3 | Four men were on the run last night after smashing their way with a sledgehammer into Harper 's jeweller 's shop in Montpelier Parade , Harrogate . |
| 4 | FIVE prisoners being tried in connection with the Strangeways riot were on the run last night after escaping from a court . |
| 5 | A convicted murderer was on the run last night . |
| 6 | A PRISONER was on the run last night after giving his guards the slip while he was visiting his dying mother in hospital . |
| 7 | A DEFENDANT on trial for a horrifying knife murder was on the run last night after walking out of the Old Bailey . |