Example sentences of "have run [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The two tower alone in a dingy apartment but perhaps they are really inside a womb which has run short of amniotic fluids .
2 If , however , you find that time has run short for the last answer , the best course is to reduce the answer to bare note form , using as many key headings as possible and abbreviating freely .
3 They even appear on Nashville 's Grand Ole Opry , the live radio show that has run weekly since 1925 , where they share the stage with revered old-timers .
4 Okay I 'll knock those up and I 'll have to run that by my household .
5 Then there had been Paul 's breakdown , and Nathan Holland had been invaluable there also ; she would have run mad without him .
6 Having run sixth to Desert Orchid in the Irish National the month following the Cheltenham race and then been beaten a short head by On The Other Hand at the big Punchestown festival in April that year , The Committee ran into a major training setback and never saw another racecourse for two and a half years .
7 The Leader and the thin man advanced a little way , narrowing the space the other three horses had to run free in .
8 We had to run direct to Kirkwall quite a lot then .
9 We 've run short of blackcurrant .
10 Teleprompter himself was back to try to lift another mammoth American prize : but though he had run second to Shadeed in the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot since his wonderful victory in Chicago , another English challenger , Shergar 's half-brother Shernazar , was more strongly fancied , for he had beaten Slip Anchor at Kempton Park in September .
11 My time was slow ( 10.14 ) , but on the other hand I had run fourth in my first World Championship .
12 On Forgive 'N Forget 's most recent outing he had run fourth behind Combs Ditch at Haydock Park , and that horse was also in the Gold Cup field , third favourite after a highly successful season which had brought him three good prizes and a neck defeat by Wayward Lad in the King George VI Chase at Kempton Park .
13 Only a few months ago , after this Lord Henry Percy had withdrawn to his other urgent command on the Scottish borders , Owen had run wild over most of North Wales , and made himself master of the counties of Carnarvon and Merioneth ; and while the woollier heads in King Henry 's council had seethed and talked bloody war , Hotspur had come swooping back to hold the balance so sturdily that he had been allowed , on the king 's warrant , to approach the Welsh prince , and attempt to bring him back to his allegiance , on promise of honourable terms .
14 Calvin Smith came in ahead of me but I beat the Pole Marian Woronin , who had run third at the previous European .
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