Example sentences of "[verb] run for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lead levels from a system with lead piping are much higher in the first few pints that come from a tap that has been left turned off than after the water has run for a few minutes , as this flushes out much of the dissolved lead . |
| 2 | The programme will recreate the traditional Carol Service train , which the Railway has run for over 20 years as worshippers travel by steam train from Keighley to Oxenhope , singing carols at each of the Railway 's six award-winning stations . |
| 3 | Joan Knight will also be returning to the theatre which she has run for the last 25 years , Andrew McKinnon having invited her to direct Tally 's Blood . |
| 4 | The scheme has run for three years and , during that time , around 180 dogs and bitches have been neutered . |
| 5 | We should have run for it . |
| 6 | We should have run for it . |
| 7 | We should have run for it . |
| 8 | We should have run for it . |
| 9 | So although the machine may have run for eight minutes , it was not an uninterrupted eight minutes . |
| 10 | Most people would have run for their lives . |
| 11 | All policies now stipulate that they must have run for between three and six months before claims will be considered — and most bar self-employed people altogether . |
| 12 | Some of the tunnels must have run for miles , winding in and out of the channels of water that threaded everywhere . |
| 13 | Had he not done so , the probability is the probation order would have run for six months and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 14 | Never having run for public office does not daunt this ‘ can-do ’ folk hero who once sent a team of ex-commandos into Iran to rescue two of his employees being held hostage . |
| 15 | HAVING run for office promising to reinvent everything from health care to youth training , Bill Clinton is now devoting most of his time to reinventing his five-month-old presidency . |
| 16 | Er Harry Truman could 've run for the presidency in nineteen fifty two but chose not to . |
| 17 | So great a flood … has been estimated to have run for 2 weeks . |
| 18 | MY WORST and only health problem developed after I was mugged five years ago outside the Embassy Club in Manchester , which I 've run for 32 years . |
| 19 | The Committee made no reference to complaints from Members , although the IBA survey showed that the percentage of MPs who found the Chamber too hot rose from 9 before the experiment to 36 after it had run for four months . |
| 20 | They came from Chaura and from Chhuma , from Huri , Muri , Pere and from Gorigāu — the mad dog on its final rampage had run for miles , and in every village the dogs had scrapped and wrangled with it . |
| 21 | We had run for only a few hundred yards . |
| 22 | Some of the men had run for their lives by now . |
| 23 | Then , when the truce had run for little more than three years , Richard II was deposed and murdered , his place as king of England being taken by Henry IV , the son of John of Gaunt . |
| 24 | It was a freezing morning and the Section had run for five miles over muddy paths and swampy fields . |
| 25 | They had run for shelter in a tiny cave on the side of the valley a second after the storm had begun . |
| 26 | So the open door was n't a ruse , and she really had run for it . |
| 27 | Meanwhile young George Stevens had run for the policeman and as soon as the man made off he was cornered by a party of men returning to the factory . |
| 28 | Startled , the pack had run for the shelter of the trees , where they had milled about uncertainly . |
| 29 | They had smoked him out and now he had run for home in High Wood . |
| 30 | They had run for the woods in what they stood up in . |