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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Even though it was still daylight, the alleyways and runnels were dark, closed off by the houses built on either side.
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Fresh sweat mixed with the runnels of shower water.
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If these were the alleyways of Paris or the runnels of London I could hide or strike back.
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Most law-abiding citizens obeyed it but not so the denizens of the slums, stinking alleys and runnels of Edinburgh.
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Mr Hellyer was digging with extraordinary vigour, the sweat streamed in runnels down his dark, rather engagingly wrinkled face.
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This leads to the formation of a ridge behind which a trough or runnel is produced.