Example sentences of "ran up [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was playing jackstones in the street when Nelly Mitchell ran up with the news that she was going for the midwife . |
| 2 | I ran up to the coach . |
| 3 | And Nyasha ran up to the top of the rise and saw the land and the city all below her . |
| 4 | As her opening music rang out , she ran up to the wings , her spirits considerably buoyed up by knowing her father was in the audience , and by the fact that she 'd felt a tiny but unmistakable buzz of excitement on hearing those familiar chords . |
| 5 | We ran up to the firing range one morning to try out our destructive techniques for real . |
| 6 | They ran up to the gate and climbed up on to it . |
| 7 | Close beside it steps ran up to the door of Fagan 's flat , which formed a part of the hay and straw loft . |
| 8 | He ran up to the man that he recognized through the thick night as the Chief Fire Officer . |
| 9 | I dashed the remainder of the wine in his face to revive him , and ran up to the laboratory again . |
| 10 | When Flavia remembered that tomorrow was going to be her essay day she ran up to the tower to fetch some essential-books which she set out with grim awareness on the dining-room table at the villa . |
| 11 | I ran up to the guest room , stripped naked and washed myself with a wet rag . |
| 12 | Kee ran up to the men and said , ‘ What 's happening ? |
| 13 | Michael ran up to the attic and took the helmet off the chest , holding it by the strap . |
| 14 | He ran up through the quarry and climbed over the gate into the field with the ewes and the new lambs , then up the side of the wood till he reached the gate into it . |
| 15 | It ran up between the windows of two rooms used as bedrooms by the plaintiffs , thus allowing anyone using the staircase to see directly into the ground-floor flat . |
| 16 | There was a problem with gilt funds about three years ago , and T S B ran up against the problem of falling gilt yields and trying to maintain the , the flow to the investor , which they did , but th they failed to tell the investor that they were having to erm sell gilts and er trade under market value , so in fact you reduce the fund , but there are halfway stages , and I mean at the moment I can get round about eight percent , plus on , on erm er offshore funds . |
| 17 | At the same time any talk of strong policies in Europe ran up against the belief that the continent was indefensible for the foreseeable future . |
| 18 | Consequently , Reagan , in looking for support from conservative Republicans , ran up against the reality that many of those same people felt bound by obligations to Nixon , who duly won the nomination on the first ballot at the Convention . |