Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] to run [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was picked to run in the London Schools at Crystal Palace but withdrew , so I had my first opportunity to run outside the immediate neighbourhood of school and borough , in a new environment on an international track . |
| 2 | The first locomotive to run on the line was the ‘ Comet ’ , brought by canal for the occasion and driven by George Stephenson himself , to the sound of a band and a salute of cannon fire . |
| 3 | Victoria Woodhull Claffin — later 19th Century free-thinking radical feminist who was the first woman to run for the office of United States President over 30 years before women 's suffrage . |
| 4 | OPPOSITION is mounting to a controversial rule which has robbed a Middlesbrough student of his last chance to run in the English Schools Cross Country Championships . |
| 5 | A single track of the defunct Marton train tram route as far as Kings Square , was kept intact to make this possible , thus making the Train the last tram to run through the Town Centre . |