Examples of run

• "How does she manage to run so fast at her age?" he asked in awed tones.

• They stripped naked and ran into the sea.

• "I ran all the way home," she puffed.

• People were screaming and running down the steps to escape the flames.

• She runs much faster than he does.

• A river runs along one side of the field's perimeter.

• The ring road runs around the periphery of the city centre.

• A ripple of applause ran through the crowd.

• Her words kept running through my mind.

• A deep furrow has formed in the rock, where water has run over it for centuries.

• We must impose some kind of order on the way this office is run.

• Modification of the engine to run on lead-free fuel is fairly simple.

• Feedback from the sensors ensures that the car engine runs smoothly.

• The engineer soon got the air-conditioning running again.

• We are running below capacity because of cancelled orders.

• The tears ran down her cheeks.

• I put my new green shirt in a hot wash and the colour ran.

• Rivulets of sweat ran down his face.

• My nose has started to run.

• I was chopping onions so my eyes were running.

• By this time all the wells had run dry.

• I'll stop and get some gas - we're running low.

• We're running low on milk - could you buy some more?

• Our patience ran out.

• Feelings were running high at the residents' meeting.

• Jim had just been on a run and was dripping with sweat.

• The local elections can be seen as a dummy run for the national election next year.

• The escapees were recaptured after three days on the run.

• After the run they were fit to drop.

• "Do you want to join me on a ten-mile run?" "Not likely !"

• England's unbeaten run of ten games ended last night when they went down 4-2 to France.

• Her run of bad luck continued when she had her purse stolen.

• After a successful run on Broadway the musical is coming to the West End.

• The school run in the morning increases congestion on the roads.

• The bus broke down on its run between Brighton and London.

• Pakistan declared at 350 for 7, leaving Australia to make an unlikely 5 runs an over to win.

• It isn't easy to score runs against pace bowlers.

• A single to extra cover brought him the run he needed to complete his century.

• Thorpe scored most of his runs on the leg side.

• England scored 158 runs before lunch for the loss of only one wicket.

• A simulated experiment with an atom trap was planned with five sections, and then let run to generate the composition.

• However, they soon were forced to abandon these plans after running into a powerful barrage of criticism.

• The runs with the glass upper surface duplicated the conditions with the copper plate and the corresponding photographs were correlated.

• Jeeter does not share his ill-begotten gains with his co-conspirators, however, but runs away and eats his fill before returning home with the remaining turnips.

• In one set of runs (their 'passage-based' runs), the highest scoring sentences were returned as the response.

• To be more precise, he runs away from the law by defiantly refusing to win the race as the favourite competitor.

• The lottery runs over 36 weeks, with one number being drawn and not replaced each week.

• The verb-and-particle ttwui-e "run" is revised and replaced with the verb-and-particle tul-e "enter".

• It aggressively exploits the parallelism made possible by sending requests to multiple remote data sources simultaneously and by scheduling tasks to run on multiple processors.

• The model is run under twelve different conditions - three initial parties and four initial parties, and within each of these six different informational conditions.

• Run-down and built-in are initially stressed in attributive position, which is the more typical function of adjectives (see below).

• The new team-based algorithm took substantially more time to run to completion than the original separable algorithm.

• In the present study, runs involving 11 parameters sometimes took 5-h to complete.

• The reversal is supposed to start instantaneously and to run at exactly the same speed as the forward simulation.

• The agreement was too indefinite to be enforced - how long was the loan supposed to run?