Example sentences of "[noun] ran off the " in BNC.

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1 The British Deaf Scout movement was born in 1910 when the Headmaster of the Royal Cross School , Preston , Mr. J.G. Shaw , was on a motor tour of Yorkshire during his July holiday , and got into severe difficulties at Skipton when his car ran off the road and broke down .
2 It was tragically whilst travelling there on Thursday 25th February 1993 that their car ran off the road and both died as a result .
3 Two boys and three girls aged between seven and nineteen died when a car ran off the road in Akers Way in September last year .
4 ‘ We do n't yet know why the vehicle ran off the road but about eleven people were injured . ’
5 Sandy Lyle was slightly unlucky that that second shot ran off the green into a depression called Duncan 's Hollow , and definitely unlucky that his third shot , which he attempted to finesse , failed by a fraction and ran back to the edge of the green .
6 They might try to look like aeroplanes but at least there were still smart waiters serving drinks to tycoons as they shuffled papers where the noughts ran off the edge of the page building a case to be argued to some Washington agency the next day .
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