Example sentences of "done a runner " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've done a runner on the lot of them . |
| 2 | ‘ You may be on the level about having done a runner , or maybe not . |
| 3 | She was twenty-eight , I discovered ; her parents ( mother French , father English ) had separated some years previously when Pater had done a runner with a bimbo ; and she toiled as a handmaiden of the arts , rendering fresh the faded pigments of yesteryear . |
| 4 | ‘ Our man 's done a runner . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He seems to have done a runner . |
| 6 | ‘ I try to keep the grey cells working , ’ I shouted back , more to reassure him that I had n't done a runner out of the kitchen window . |
| 7 | From the look of things , it was odds on he 'd done a runner with either the till , a barmaid or the Christmas Club fund . |
| 8 | ‘ And , as Bill seems to have done a runner , is it not down to ourselves , as the very last of the First Hierarchy of Hell , to aid our evil master in his plan to unleash the forces of darkness upon this planet ? ’ |
| 9 | Surely Steve had n't done a runner ? |
| 10 | I thought you 'd done a runner and run away |
| 11 | she 's done a runner , oh dear me , naughty , naughty in n it ? |
| 12 | So I thought , well Ben done a runner , so I 'm gon na just sit here . |