I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ditch runs along/down etc sth
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A muddy ditch ran along the side of the field.
a lease runs out ( also a lease expires formal ) (= it stops )
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Their lease runs out in June.
a lease runs (= continues for a period of time )
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The lease will run for 21 years.
a licence runs out ( also a licence expires formal ) (= it ends )
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Her driver’s license had expired.
a morning coffee/run/swim (= that someone does, drinks etc in the morning )
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She read the paper while drinking her morning coffee.
a play runs (= it continues to be performed )
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The play ran for five months.
a river runs (= it flows in a particular direction )
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the place where the river runs into the sea
a road leads/goes/runs somewhere
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We turned into the road leading to the village.
a run of good/bad luck (= a series of good or bad things )
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The team has had a run of bad luck lately, losing their last five games.
a running commentary (= continuous commentary while an event is happening )
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The coach driver gave us a running commentary on where we were going.
a running joke (= in which people always laugh when the same situation happens, or when someone says something )
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It’s a running joke in our house that my husband can never find his keys.
a running tap
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Wash the cut under a running tap.
a scar runs somewhere
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A scar ran from the corner of his eye to under his jawbone.
a shudder ran/passed/went through sb
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A shudder ran through him at the touch of her fingers.
a tap is running (= water is flowing out of it )
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I think you must have left the tap running.
an engine runs
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He parked outside the bank and kept the engine running.
be running scared (= feel scared, especially because someone might catch you or defeat you )
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The opposition were running scared.
be worth it in the long run
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All our hard work will be worth it in the long run .
be/get/run low (on sth)
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We’re running low on gas.
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Stocks are getting low.
buses run (= go at regular times )
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The buses run less frequently on a Sunday.
cheap to run/use/maintain etc
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Gas appliances are usually cheaper to run than electric ones.
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For the employer, a part-time workforce means a cheap labour supply.
chicken run
come running/flying/speeding etc
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Jess came flying round the corner and banged straight into me.
day-to-day running
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The manager is responsible for the day-to-day running of the hotel.
doing the school run
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We hope to increase the safety of children who walk to school and cut the number of cars doing the school run .
do/run/swim a lap
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Every morning she swims 50 laps in the pool.
dry run
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Both the parties are treating the local elections as a dry run.
dummy run
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Do a dummy run to see how long it will take.
feelings are running high (= people have strong feelings, especially of anger )
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It was the last game of the season, and feelings were running high.
fun run
go/run through a checklist (= read it to see what still needs doing )
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I’ll just run through the checklist one more time.
hit...home run
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I didn’t think I could hit a home run .
hit/run into a snag
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The grand opening hit a snag when no one could find the key.
home run
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I didn’t think I could hit a home run .
imagination...run wild
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Be creative – allow your imagination to run wild .
inflation is running at 3%/4% etc ( also inflation stands at 3%/4% etc ) (= used to talk about the present rate of inflation )
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Inflation currently stands at 3.2%.
laugh till you cry/laugh till the tears run down your face
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He leaned back in his chair and laughed till the tears ran down his face.
lay/run a cable (= put one in position somewhere )
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In the 1860s the first cables were laid under the oceans.
let your imagination run wild ( also let your imagination run riot British English ) (= allow yourself to imagine many strange or wonderful things )
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He uses painting as a way of letting his imagination run riot.
manage/run a farm
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He manages a large dairy farm.
meet (with) opposition/run into opposition (= face opposition )
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A new tax would meet a lot of opposition.
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The Bill ran into opposition in the House of Lords.
milk run
passions run high (= people are very excited, angry, or upset )
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The judge's decision is expected today and passions are running high.
print run
publish/carry/run an article (= print it in a newspaper or magazine )
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The magazine carried an article on the dangers of being overweight.
ran full tilt
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She ran full tilt into his arms.
ran headlong into
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Mortimer almost ran headlong into a patrol.
ran the gamut (= included all the possibilities between two extremes )
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Her feelings that day ran the gamut of emotions .
ran up a...tab
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He ran up a $4000 tab in long-distance calls.
ran...marathon
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Garcia ran the marathon in just under three hours.
ran...ragged (= made them do a lot of work )
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He ran United’s defence ragged .
rat run
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The road has become a rat run for traffic avoiding the town centre.
run a business (= manage it )
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There’s plenty of advice available on how to run your own business.
run a café (= be in charge of a café )
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His father ran a café in Lerwick.
run a car (= have a car and pay for the petrol, repairs etc it needs )
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People on low incomes can’t afford to run a car.
run a check (= especially on something that is strange or suspicious )
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You should run a virus check before downloading from the Internet.
run a club (= organize one )
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My Dad helps to run the rowing club.
run a competition (= organize it )
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The company is running an inventions competition with a first prize of £1,000.
run a course
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The course is run by the British Council.
run a headline (= use a headline )
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One tabloid paper ran the headline: ‘Disney Theme Park Found On Mars’.
run a program
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You have to input this information every time you run the program.
run a race
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I thought I ran a good race.
run a story (= print it or broadcast it )
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There wasn't enough definite information to run the story.
run a tap (= make water flow out of it )
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She stood at the sink, running the tap to get a glass of cold water.
run an empire (= be in charge of it )
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She now runs a whole media empire.
run concurrently
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Because his prison sentences run concurrently , he could be free in two years.
run for election ( also stand for election British English ) (= try to become elected )
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If you plan to stand for election to the committee, you must be nominated by three members.
run for shelter
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The residents were running for shelter from the bombing.
run free
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The animals are allowed to run free in the park.
run into six figures (= be over £100,000 or $100,000 )
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The final cost of the project will easily run into six figures .
run into/get into difficulties (= find yourself in a difficult situation )
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Three people were rescued from a boat that had got into difficulties.
run on fuel (= use fuel as the source of power )
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Will this engine run on unleaded fuel?
run on petrol
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Many older vehicles have been converted to run on unleaded petrol.
run out into a road
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He had to swerve when a child ran out into the road.
run out of energy (= have no more energy )
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The players seemed to be running out of energy.
run out of fuel (= use all the fuel available and have none left )
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The ship ran out of fuel and drifted helplessly.
run out of patience (with sb)
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She was wonderful with the children, and never ran out of patience.
run out of petrol
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They ran out of petrol some miles from their destination.
run rate
run software
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To run the software, you will need the latest version of Windows.
run the length of sth (= exist along the whole length of something )
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A long corridor ran the length of the building.
run track
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The next year he didn’t run track or play football.
run up a bill (= use a lot of something so that you have a big bill to pay )
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It’s easy to run up a big bill on your mobile phone.
run up debts ( also amass debts formal ) (= borrow more and more money )
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At that time he was drinking a lot and running up debts.
run your fingers through sb’s hair (= touch someone’s hair in a loving way )
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He ran his fingers through her smooth silky hair.
run your fingers through/over/along etc sth
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She ran her fingers through his hair.
run/carry an advertisement (= print or broadcast an advertisement )
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Broadcasters are no longer allowed to run cigarette advertisements.
run/govern the country (= officially control a country )
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The government has the job of running the country.
run/keep a tight ship (= manage a company, organization etc strictly and effectively )
run...macro
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You can run a macro to change to US spelling.
run/manage a company
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Nick runs a property company.
run/manage a hotel
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They run a small hotel in Cornwall.
running a fever (= has a fever )
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She’s running a fever .
running costs
running errands
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I seemed to spend my life running errands for people.
running gag (= a joke which is repeated )
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It was a bit of a running gag in the show.
running mate
running parallel
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Take the road running parallel to the main road just after the village.
running repairs (= small things that you do to something to keep it working properly )
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Farm workers made their own tools and carried out their own running repairs.
running repairs
running smoothly
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Donna keeps the office running smoothly .
running time
running water (= water that comes out of a system of pipes into buildings )
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Only half the city’s houses had running water.
running/jogging/training etc shoes
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Get yourself a good pair of running shoes if you want to take up running.
running/operating costs (= the amount it costs to run a business, a machine etc )
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The new technology is cheaper and the running costs are lower.
run/operate a scheme
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Parent volunteers help run the scheme.
run/operate etc at a loss (= to earn less money from something you sell than it costs you to produce it )
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Two of the mines are running at a loss.
run/operate/do sth on a shoestring
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The program was run on a shoestring.
run/wage/conduct a campaign (= carry out a campaign )
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He ran an aggressive campaign.
sb's nose is running (= liquid is coming out )
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She was crying hard and her nose was running.
sb's visa expires/runs out (= it ends )
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I had 14 days to leave the country because my visa had expired.
sb’s luck runs out (= they stop having good luck )
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Finally my luck ran out and they caught me.
sb’s watch is fast/runs fast (= it shows a later time )
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No, it’s only 12.15 – your watch must be fast.
sb’s watch is slow/runs slow (= it shows an earlier time )
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'He’s late.' 'Maybe his watch is running slow.'
school run
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We hope to increase the safety of children who walk to school and cut the number of cars doing the school run .
score a goal/point/run etc
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He has scored 12 goals so far this season.
shiver ran through (= went through )
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A shiver ran through me.
ski run
smooth running/operation
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Sarah is responsible for the smooth running of the sales department.
software/a program runs on a computer
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You’ll need the appropriate software running on your computer.
sth is running low on fuel (= it does not have much fuel left )
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The plane was running low on fuel.
sth takes/runs its course (= develops in the usual or natural way )
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There was nothing we could do except watch the illness run its course.
sweat runs/pours somewhere
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My hand was shaking and sweat was pouring off my forehead.
tears run/roll/stream down sb’s face
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Oliver laughed until tears ran down his face.
test run
the school run British English (= the journey taking children to and from school each day )
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She had to be back in time for the school run.
thread running through
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a thread running through the film
time is running out (= there is not much time left to do something )
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Doctors are looking for a suitable donor, but time is running out.
time’s running short
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Come on, time’s running short !
trains run (= take people from one place to another at fixed times )
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Trains run from two main London stations, Victoria and Charing Cross, every hour.
trial run
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This year is something of a trial run for the new service.
up and running
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There could well be a few problems before your new computer is up and running properly.
use/run/operate a system
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They use a system of grades to evaluate each hospital’s performance.
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We operate a booking system.
water runs
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I let the cool water run down my back.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
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There were some heart-stopping moments in the Town goalmouth, but they survived and nearly ran off with a win.
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He ran off , shouting his news.
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The cabby refused and grabbed him by the arm, at which point the robber pulled free and ran off .
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George and Russell were talking about a white-face year-ling that had run off earlier in the summer.
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Water running off the maize fields is contaminated with dieldrin, then drunk by cattle.
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Cowher was screaming at him and backpedaling as the official tried to run off the field.
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They ran off as fast as their legs would carry them.
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Trying to run off left tackle, he collided with his own lineman.
smoothly
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Once the engine is running smoothly , a backfire can be dramatic.
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Tiny, energetic, imaginative, she drove advertising sales to ever-new heights and kept the business departments running smoothly .
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My job as duty officer involves keeping Teesside Airport running smoothly at all times.
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I am here to see that this runs smoothly for New York and New York delegation.
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Yes, things were running smoothly once more.
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Though they seemed to have refined the outward form of marriage, I suspected that underneath not everything ran smoothly .
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Remember how the cool salad dressing ran smoothly over the crunchy lettuce.
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Like every other business, it needs good management to keep it running smoothly , especially during times of change.
up
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Every major road out of the centre had its tramway running up the centre of a dual carriageway.
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Then the boy ran up the stairs and slammed his bedroom door.
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The rat turned, ran up the rope again and disappeared.
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Band members sing spontaneous and insulting ditties, needling the girls as they run up the court or in-bound the ball.
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Without the enormous costs run up by the Royal Navy vessel, the Yard would have made profits of £6.5m.
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Without even realizing, it runs up a payroll tax bill of $ 85, 000.
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Owls were hooting in the forest when some one came running up the path and hammered on the door.
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A grunt ran up and told us to crank.
■ NOUN
business
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You simply buy the rights to run a known-name business .
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Their entire squad consists of Mario, who runs a linen business .
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A remarkable 40 percent wanted to run their own business and a quarter expected to do so.
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He ran the business part time until last January.
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James Stavanger, the father of the present chairman, Andrew Stavanger, ran the business between the wars.
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So all I could do was try to get the property back, and with the license try to run a business .
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She runs a natural therapy business in nearby Brereton Heath.
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Liz decided she would work part-time in a bookstore on weekends and attend some seminars on starting and running a business .
campaign
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But it's also true that opponents will be free to run and campaign .
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Four years ago Mr Nader, now 66, was accused of running a lacklustre campaign .
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He is seen as having run a vigorous campaign , despite a lack of resources.
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The two joked about running a joint write-in campaign , then started to take the joke seriously.
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He runs a clever grassroots campaign based on small contributors and free radio time.
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The option of private employment aside, Vargas has been acting like some one running a campaign .
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A concatenation of events particularly damaging Mrs Thatcher was subsequently compounded by errors of tactics and organisation by those running her campaign .
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He ran a lackluster campaign for president in the 1992 primaries.
course
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Target business to be run in ordinary course up to completion with no material changes in trading performance or net assets.
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For nearly three weeks, doctors whittled at his body as the last of the burns ran their course .
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Regular times or meetings on the timetable ... It should be very clear who is running the course and the methods.
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A bitter national depression, born of the panic of 1893, was near to running its course .
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Another attempt is being made to run an assertiveness course in the North-East.
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Yet no one wanted to commit troops until ethnic cleansing and exhaustion had run their course .
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The aim was to provide users with information on Microsoft Corp products and to run graduate and Masters courses in Microsoft technology.
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Instead, recessions will be allowed to run their course and governments will simply wait for a recovery.
engine
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To avoid this and also to facilitate starting, engines are set to run about fifteen percent rich on the ground.
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A jet turbine engine may run for 40, 000 hours before being rebuilt.
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Once the engine is running smoothly, a backfire can be dramatic.
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By adjusting the governor, Watt could vary the steam engine to run at any rate.
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The car engine continued to run despite my having the ignition key in my pocket!
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If it isn't mixed properly it won't burn and the engine won't run .
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Next to it stood the engine which ran it, and the engineer.
finger
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Then he ran his finger round his neck and held up three fingers of his left hand.
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He pushed more hair aside, ran his fingers down above his ear.
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Droplets of blood ran over his fingers and dripped on to the floor.
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More girls were chosen, grabbed their evening bags, ran quick fingers through their hair.
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I put my hand in and tapped the rear of the little compartment, running my fingers over the surface.
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He ran a mental finger down an imaginary list.
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He ran his fingers over the wall.
hand
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She ran a hand through her hair and glanced up at the fighters again, one arm linked through Plummer's.
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When he ran his hand over it, a sprinkle of grit fell to the floor.
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He ran a skeletal hand over the bristles of his hair.
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Here, touch this surface while running your other hand up the inside of your thigh.
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Clutching himself he crawled back to the cabinet and ran a tentative hand over the woodwork.
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I took a deep breath and ran my hands along my body.
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He tested the tension of each wire, and ran his hand over the timber to ensure the joinery was perfect.
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Sarah touched every wall, ran her hand over the woodwork, examined the closets and looked out the windows.
length
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A prickling sensation running the length of her spine told her that Rourke had made an appearance.
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The loft ran the length of the house from front to back, and it was lit by two unshaded forty-watt bulbs.
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The flexible rod in its back which runs the entire length of its body carries transverse bands of muscles.
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A verandah ran the length of the front of the house.
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Then winger Crawford Dobbin ran half the length of the pitch for the final score at the corner flag.
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A long corridor ran down the length of the building with doors leading off on both sides.
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I looked up and saw him clinging to a pipe that ran the length of one wall, high up.
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There were four steps at each end of a loading-bay which ran the full length of the house.
mile
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Aragorn can run 135 miles in three days; he lives in full vigour for 210 years, dying on his birthday.
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Mike Mussina looks like an athlete, lean and fit, ready to run the mile or pitch a no-hitter.
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Some of the tunnels must have run for miles , winding in and out of the channels of water that threaded everywhere.
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The road runs for another mile and then terminates, at the top of a hill.
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His pole was impaling her to the absolute limit, and she began panting as if she'd just run the four-minute mile .
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Owen Anderson kicks off by telling you the physical changes that occur when you run 26.2 miles .
office
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When the time came, one or other of the sons would come ashore to run the shipping offices .
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The hand workers I know, running for union office , are being bred out of existence, even as crypto-yuppies.
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The party was short of funds; and it was still being run from a tiny office with just four paid staff.
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If Chicago was bombed, people would all run out of their offices to drive home.
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He ran the office in Nice.
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Being the manager means running my own office , using my ideas and thoughts.
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Although more women than ever ran for office , there was no net change in the level of female representation.
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The citizens who stepped out of the crowd and ran for office Tuesday showed they had that trait.
risk
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Knowledge of a risk does not equal consent to run that risk.
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He did not want to run the risk of being brushed off.
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Anyone who after time purchases goods from the defendant therefore runs the risk of having them seized by the sheriff.
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A girl ran every risk of being killed if she confessed.
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If a council crossed an upper threshold implied by them it ran the risk of being capped.
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You always run the risk that your complaints get back to your boss, but you also might get some relief.
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To do so would run the risk of compromising the most vulnerable part of the operation.
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In less dramatic contexts many of us already run such risks .
road
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He turned into the main road that ran parallel with the unseen river.
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He cycled out of 3-Wing on to the Hay-on-Wye road that ran through the camp.
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It has several deep canyons incising into its southern flank, and an old road running within a few miles of it.
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Oliver, who had a natural distaste for policemen, crossed the road and ran home, on the other side.
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The empty road ran through thick jungle.
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The road , running for much of the time parallel to the river Wharfe, was almost deserted.
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The road runs for another mile and then terminates, at the top of a hill.
shop
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Mary Lowther, a fruiterer who runs a shop in Skinnergate.
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Soo ran out of the shop to buy food.
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Probably running a repair shop by now Or somebody's fleet.
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Have you noticed how every bookstore seems to run a coffee shop ?
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His wife still runs a sweet shop in Buckinghamshire.
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She ran the village shop , and hers was a busy life indeed.
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Miss Asher also runs her own cake shop , which she opened three years ago in Chelsea.
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Significantly, Chipie has run its own shops , as well as wholesaling its clothes, almost from the start.
show
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Lord Hesketh had poured his own fortune into the team and it was in his nature to run the whole show .
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Besides, he was running the show .
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Who are we to tell them that sovereignty is an illusion and to deny them the opportunity to run their own show ?
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We love the people who run the show .
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In the meantime she had a business to run and a show to prepare.
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Mary Ann Grabavoy and Cynthia Potter, a 1976 bronze medalist, will run the show .
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The charitable organisation, the trust I am talking about happens to have four Eastern Board managers running the show .
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Holzman says in a 1992 Nicholas Spark video that runs with the show .
steam
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M Mitterrand, in short, has run out of steam .
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The market rallied early in 1995, but then ran out of steam .
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My great-grandmother preferred to begin a meal with pudding in case she ran out of steam before the last course.
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His passion is to say if the constitutional model has run out of steam , change it.
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They have now run out of steam .
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Mr Chuan was perceived to have run out of steam .
tear
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It's true when they say the tears eventually run out.
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I cried till the tears all run down in my ears.
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I felt tears running down my cheeks.
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She hit the other one, and then sat stock-still; tears ran from her closed eyes.
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When she blinked, the tears overflowed and ran back along her cheekbones to her ears, where the swaddling absorbed them.
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These tears ran slowly down his face and over the hinges of his jaw, and there they rusted.
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Fighting back shocked tears , she ran to the front door.
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She burst into tears and ran down the hall to the kitchen.
trouble
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Mr Murdoch, like Mr Gower, has a way of playing that was bound to run into trouble .
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But Netanyahu could run into trouble with his Cabinet and top advisers, or other disagreements could break out among the negotiators.
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It depended for its prosperity on the local slate quarries and when these ran into trouble so did the railway.
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But they run into trouble when Maj.
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The women's union quickly ran into trouble though.
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Societies that treat their constituent members as identical pawns soon run into trouble .
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Some heavily-indebted developers have run into trouble , causing problems for the finance companies that back them.
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The firm ran into trouble last year after evidence of fraud was found at some of its sites.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a close run thing
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Exciting Ormskirk made it two wins out of three but it was a close run thing against New Brighton.
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It was a close run thing.
be firing/running on all cylinders
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The latter is a book in which the author is firing on all cylinders .
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This company is firing on all cylinders .
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Your Reticular Activating System is firing on all cylinders , your cortex is turning somersaults.
be in (good) working/running order
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Hall of Power - a range of engines and heavy machinery, most of which are in working order and operated daily.
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The locomotive was in working order at the time and negotiations proceeded which resulted in transportation to Swanage as described above.
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To this day the milling machinery is in working order .
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Two isn't multiplicity and Castelfonte never was in running order , and now they were living in hotels.
be in the running/out of the running
be running on empty
be running short (of/on sth)
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Let's go - time's running short .
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Many stores are running short on bottled water.
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Our supply of firewood was running short .
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As we are running short of time, let me end with one area where there is a clear divide.
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He was running short of petrol and that route offered him the chance to capture replenishments along the way.
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He was running short of time.
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Nevertheless, Baldwin felt his time was running short .
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San Francisco may be running short of characters, but new communities pop up every day.
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Still, time is running short .
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Time was running short for Lievin.
be rushed/run off your feet
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All the sales assistants are run off their feet . The shop ought to take on more staff.
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It's my son's birthday party tomorrow. I've been absolutely rushed off my feet getting ready for it.
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Bus managers were expecting to be rushed off their feet .
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He was in livery, and told me he was rushed off his feet .
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Obviously, the emergency services are run off their feet .
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There had been lots of problems, and they were rushed off their feet .
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We were rushed off our feet yesterday.
be/run in sb's blood
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It seemed to be in his blood .
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It would be in his blood in minutes.
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Psychic awareness ran in my blood .
be/run/go counter to sth
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A recipe would be counter to its nature.
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It ran counter to the ideas most Christians had held for well over a thousand years.
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It runs counter to his career-long concern with budget deficits.
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They operate in a way which runs counter to the original purpose of creation.
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This can apply to moral issues and anything which runs counter to the Bible's teaching.
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This would run counter to the very informal information exchange that gives it meaning in this internal context.
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While I did this, I was encouraging her to talk through opinions of her own that ran counter to these discussions.
get/go/run through sth
go/run around in circles
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We've got to solve the problem instead of running around in circles , writing letters that never get answered.
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I had a tendency to run around in circles getting more and more worked up.
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She jumps up and down and runs around in circles .
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That's why there are no solutions and the characters endlessly go around in circles in discussions.
go/run like clockwork
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A universe that ran like clockwork also evinced design.
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And if Lais and Leonore created the promised diversion the plan would go like clockwork .
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Sometimes it ran like clockwork , sometimes-as I wrote at the time-it ran like the movie Clockwise.
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Then we had been surprised when our ascent of the nearby Jankopiti had gone like clockwork .
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Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel, Senna's stop went like clockwork .
go/run to seed
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And a production should not just be a matter of getting a good notice and leaving it to go to seed slowly.
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At the same time, a drought affected the area, and heliotrope had time to grow and go to seed .
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Formerly owned by Arthur Siegel, it had since gone to seed .
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Mark knows he has allowed himself to go to seed a bit.
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She looked middle-aged, overdressed, a show-girl gone to seed .
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The rest of the College, like the theatre, seems in Paul Pry's day to have run to seed .
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Their skin was as smooth as warm water, their hair as soft as a dandelion crown gone to seed .
go/run/flash etc through sb's mind
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I began to wonder what might be going through her mind .
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Over and over it ran through his mind .
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Perhaps more mundane thoughts went through her mind .
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The one occasion which was flashing through Yanto's mind at this moment involved just three of the local water babies.
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The past twenty-two months flashed through my mind like film run at high speed, and suddenly I felt rather tired.
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The thought ran through my mind I heard chaos outside.
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This was staggering new information, and all kinds of ideas were flashing through our minds .
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Who lived there and what was going through their minds ?
in running order
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A nightly news programme, involving late inclusions and enforced changes in running order, is bound to be frenetic.
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Keep the battery fully charged and the engine in running order.
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Two isn't multiplicity and Castelfonte never was in running order, and now they were living in hotels.
in the long run/term
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Arguably, however, the implications of the Manchester North-West result were to become more apparent in the long term.
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But in the long run, it has proved impossible to continue down this path.
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However limited its immediate effects, the ideology of Enlightened Despotism was important in the long term.
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I don't know what good it did David in the long run because what it did was cost a lot of money.
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It invites us to reflect on history with a slower pulse-rate, history in the longer term.
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The consequences of violating this rule had always been unhappy in the long run and not infrequently in the short.
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The funding to do anything, however, must in the long run derive from national resources.
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Yet the saving of money, in the long run, was more important to Mowat than the saving of scenery.
in the short term/run
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These measures may save some money in the short term, but we'll just end up spending more later.
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Although those measures would cost money in the short term, Rep.
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Even marriage into the royal family only assured such support in the short term.
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Evidently not, in the short term, but in the long term Fangorn knows his race and story are sterile.
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Giving sanctuary to political asylum-seekers is seldom rewarded on earth, at least in the short term.
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He predicted more volatile dealings in the short run.
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The vocabulary of every language is so vast that there is no way to eliminate all such hazards in the short run.
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Which are the campaign promises that you believe you can deliver on in the short term?
make (all) the running
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As the race started, Dettori decided to make the running .
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Busy Martin Ling made the running .
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Collins made the running down the left and found Slater at the back-post.
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Hodkinson, encouraged by his corner, was now making all the running .
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Painfully and in the open she had to make all the running .
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That was precisely what women had done in the past - sit back and wait for men to make the running .
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The wary fighter backs off from you and so must be encouraged to make all the running .
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When this is so, a visit will always go well if they are allowed to make the running .
make sb's blood run cold
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But whenever she passed the wood the tales rushed back into her mind and made her blood run cold.
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Ex-inmate Tony Cohla told yesterday how the thought of ever returning to Ashworth makes his blood run cold.
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He said their evidence had made his blood run cold.
run a risk
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If your body temperature rises above 106 degrees, you run a great risk of getting heat stroke.
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Men run a greater risk of dying from heart disease than women.
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Rather than running the risks of using harmful pesticides in your garden, try using natural or organic methods of pest control.
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The people who use these drugs are often unaware of the risks they are running.
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As an outsider, Zhou could run a risk .
run afoul of sb/sth
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Burgess' illegal use of alcohol ran afoul of the code, a point the righteous Karnaugh was quite eager to make.
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Here I simply introduce them to you and describe how Iberian managers ran afoul of them. 1.
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The bill signed by Leavitt attempts to ban gay student groups without running afoul of this statute.
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Two men died and two boys were seriously injured as vehicles ran afoul of washed-out roads.
run amok
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Troops were allowed to run amok in the villages.
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But speculation about whether he had accomplices has run amok .
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Don't let him go running amok , Bill.
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Double-entendre lyrics run amok at this sonic strip club from hell.
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I think Mum worried that I might run amok and stick my penknife straight into Katie.
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No, our kids are not running amok .
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The Zekes come in against the line of P-40s, one runs amok as others erupt in flames.
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There were Peace Rallies in the 1960s, with stone-throwing anarchists running amok .
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With Thatcher running amok through the welfare state, lobby groups are preoccupied defending what was once thought unassailable.
run around like a headless chicken
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The arcade section is hideous, featuring computer-controlled players running around like headless chickens and never attempting a tackle.
run interference
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Truscati's job is to run interference for troubled kids with their parents, schools, and the courts.
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Even with Hilton Railey running interference , the first twenty-four hours in London were rocky indeed.
run into/hit the buffers
run out of steam
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Fuel protest runs out of steam A national protest by truckers demanding cheaper fuel turned out to be a low-key affair.
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His passion is to say if the constitutional model has run out of steam , change it.
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Mr Chuan was perceived to have run out of steam .
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The Damascus government has run out of steam after 30 years in power.
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The market rallied early in 1995, but then ran out of steam .
run out the clock/kill the clock
run rife
run rings around sb
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Each time the Congress met, which was roughly every six months, Boris Yeltsin ran rings around it.
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For sheer cleverness she could run rings around them all.
run riot
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Ann let her imagination run riot as she wrote.
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Roses ran riot up the wall.
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All kinds of wild ideas ran riot in my brain.
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Because of her weakened state her imagination had run riot .
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Boro threatened to run riot but could not provide the finishing touch.
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Confusion ran riot in Ruth's heart.
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In the Pilkington final two years ago, they ran riot over the Cherry and Whites.
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Now, when far greater things were at stake, she had allowed her emotions to run riot .
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The objects left in the churchyard were open to all manner of interpretation and imagination could run riot .
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When Coleridge got on one and let his imagination run riot , he came up with Kubla Khan.
run roughshod over sb/sth
run sb close
run sb/sth to earth
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He hadn't been there that morning and now she had run him to earth in the café.
run sb/sth to ground
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Badminton: Hall runs Baddeley to ground .
run the gauntlet
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A defendant should be required to run the gauntlet of the criminal court system only once.
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As they left afterwards, they had to run the gauntlet of television cameras and reporters.
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But in announcing the move Chris Dean had to run the gauntlet of press more interested in his private life.
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John and all the celebrities had to run the gauntlet of gun muzzles.
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So it was rather a question of running the gauntlet when passing over the Sayers' land.
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Their budgets are closely controlled by Congress and any departmental legislative proposals will have to run the gauntlet of Congressional scrutiny.
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They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process.
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Yet neither of them had to run the gauntlet of hate that Barmby has experienced.
run to fat
run wild
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Football fans ran wild through the city.
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Organized crime has been running wild since the collapse of the old regime.
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Pam just lets here kids run wild .
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She allowed her imagination to run wild .
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At first they were probably running wild , with panic and fear uppermost!
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Because now the workers could run wild .
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Central bankers are allowing global capital to run wild .
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I tell ya, our kids are running wild .
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In the absence of brakes, the system runs wild .
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The children run wild , in shirts and jeans.
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They ran wild , but he was sure a father could correct their ways.
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They run wild into the woods, filthy, skeletal and naked.
run/cast your eye over sth
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A note from Mellowes instructed me to cast my eye over the draft, pronto, for inaccuracies.
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Above him Cornelius ran his eye over a box of ancient cane carpet beaters.
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And of course Prince also casts his eye over rock too.
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He also casts his eye over the proposed law changes.
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I cast my eye over the front page of the Telegraph while Anne poured the coffee.
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The customs officers run their eyes over us as if we weren't there.
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They've even invited Michael Heseltine, care of Spitting Image, to cast his eyes over the exhibition.
run/extend the (full) width of sth
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Even the view from the big window that runs the width of her office is unadorned.
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It ran the width of the ship and was full of machinery.
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She led them on to a small covered terrace running the full width of the house.
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The room she entered ran the width of the house, with windows at both ends.
run/go aground
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More than 72,000 tonnes of crude oil spilled into the estuary after the tanker ran aground in 1996.
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The beach was long, flat and shelved so gently that no normal vessel could have come ashore without running aground .
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The Ecuadorean tanker Jessica started leaking diesel oil after running aground last week.
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The pirate station, which ran aground last November, is using equipment and records donated by listeners.
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The prosecution's case had turned primarily on the allegation that he was drunk when his ship ran aground .
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Y., to Providence, ran aground Friday afternoon after the tugboat pushing it was disabled by an unexplained explosion.
run/go deep
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But the main problem goes deeper and will take longer to solve.
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Maude, on the other hand, had gone deep into the pluperfect, eleven generations of it.
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So did it go deeper than that?
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The debt goes deeper than money.
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The play goes deep and inspires all sorts of questions.
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The tradition of dressing up a corporate image in print runs deep at Investor Insight and its affiliates.
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They can play at being still waters that run deep .
run/go dry
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The reservoir ran dry during the drought.
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Every available hotel room was rented out and, on some weekends, county gasoline pumps ran dry .
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If the trend continues, he said, the springs will go dry .
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If the valve has jammed shut, causing the feed-and-expansion tank to run dry , again turn off the water supply.
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Laura McCaffrey went dry slope skiing at Calshot Activities Centre,.
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Stock tanks normally brimming with water have gone dry .
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The rivers, too, are beginning to run dry .
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Time allowed 00:06 Read in studio A soft drinks company says its could run dry if it doesn't get enough elderflowers.
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With this agreement, our families are for ever linked, even if the rivers run dry and the oceans become deserts.
run/go hell for leather
run/go/drive etc like the clappers
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Little legs going like the clappers .
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Male speaker Inside you are going like the clappers because you are nervous and the tension is building up.
run/hurt/fight etc like hell
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I know he lost his legs first, and then his fingers-he died alone and it hurt like hell .
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I remember running like hell , knowing I was being pursued and looking back for Sarah, who didn't join me.
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I was able to breathe only with the utmost difficulty, and my arm hurt like hell .
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Must have fought like hell to find its niche within the forest, to distinguish itself within the pack.
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My forehead hurt like hell and my body was bruised all over, but no bones were broken.
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Run, North, run; just run like hell .
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Spring sauntered north, but he had to run like hell to keep it as his traveling companion.
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We fought like hell for most of the time.
run/stretch/walk etc the (full) length of sth
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A faint scar ran the length of his left cheek.
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I always enjoyed walking the full length of the street to check how the other shops were faring.
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I would have to walk the length of the shed to reach him.
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Next door, the living room is large and beautifully proportioned, running the length of the house.
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The loft ran the length of the house from front to back, and it was lit by two unshaded forty-watt bulbs.
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Then Red runs the length of the court, grabs a pass, drives to the basket and sinks one.
running battle/joke
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A man whose name is so synonymous with a suntan that it is a running joke in Doonesbury?
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An even longer running battle was fought in the royal dockyards.
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As well as his running battle with Monkou, he left stud marks on defender Richard Hall.
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I was not told, when we left, that I should have to fight a running battle with four hundred horsemen.
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In the resulting confrontation several hundred Mohawks armed with clubs and guns fought running battles with police.
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Police and demonstrators regularly engage in running battles near Mr Suharto's home in central Jakarta.
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The fighters quickly pursued them and eventually shot down every one in a running battle.
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They saw graffiti on important public memorials and they saw running battles with the police.
running commentary
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Attending is simply describing what the child is doing, rather like a running commentary on the activity.
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Don't keep up a running commentary.
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Hearing voices that keep up a running commentary in the head.
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His running commentary was oft-repeated, I guess.
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It becomes a running commentary from navigator to driver.
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Photos of Jack were shown, each thrown up on a large screen with a running commentary.
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This man provided a running commentary on the events on the screen, which were otherwise a fabulous mystery.
running sore
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And Nat was like a running sore, crabby, miserable.
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But finally, she would make of it an ulcer, a running sore that would never heal.
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For Horace it might have been a short madness; in Frere it threatened to become a running sore.
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In fact Meadowell is an Elastoplast name like Sizewell, invented in the 1970s to disguise what was already a running sore.
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Such protestations ferment a running sore which breeds contempt for the authorities.
running total
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Keep a running total of your expenses.
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And you told me you've kept a running total in your head all the year.
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The cost will simply be kept for each project as a running total entered by hand in a cost ledger.
running water
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The sound of running water could be heard like faint background music.
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They lived in a one-room trailer with no running water.
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A sophisticated technology brought running water into private homes, public bathhouses and imperial palaces.
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Although during the winter there had been no running water this had been restored at least in the centre of the town.
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In addition Drake set up artificial ecologies in aquaria and in running water for artificial stream ecologies.
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Somehow, over the running water, she finally heard the loud knocking on the cabin door.
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The village and ashram had no running water, electricity, fans, radio, or telephone.
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They have no electricity, running water or school; their church collapsed years ago.
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We hike up a little more than a mile and find running water.
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We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there.
still waters run deep
take a running jump
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Or, as the Palace will no doubt be recommending to the duchess in due course ... take a running jump.
the running of sth
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Maria helped her mother with the running of the household.
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At first all criticism of the running of the war was muted and was aimed at measures rather than men.
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Changez didn't seem ready to take over the running of Paradise Stores.
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Chapman's revolutionary ideas extended also to the running of the national team.
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Even doing the housework with Aunt Margaret satisfied her; she had a part to play in the running of the home.
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Packers' shareholders have no say in the running of their team.
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Relocation is bound to cause a certain amount of disruption in the running of the business.
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Since Father died and Mam walked out I've had the running of this house on my shoulders.
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The government mobilized troops, ostensibly to maintain order and the running of public services.
the running order
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There are a few changes in the running order for the teachers' conference.
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So Jonathan set the running order up and I was really pleased.
three years/five times etc running
work/drive/run yourself into the ground
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But don't drive yourself into the ground .
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I've already explained to you how I've worked myself into the ground setting up the interview.
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I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember.
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Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal.
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They ran themselves into the ground , ran Chesterfield off the pitch, but they couldn't get another goal.
work/run/go like stink
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A dog ran straight out in front of my car.
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a drug counselling service that is run by ex-addicts
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A stream runs along the bottom of the field.
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Barkley's contract only runs through next season.
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Caltrain runs commuter trains to San Jose.
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Christina runs a restaurant in Houston.
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Dorothy was reunited with her family after the newspaper ran her story.
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Ellis has not yet announced whether or not he will run .
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He kept on running until he was out in the open country.
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Her dog was running after a rabbit and did not hear her calling.
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How has your car been running lately?
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I'm afraid the colors ran when I washed your shirt.
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I've never run a marathon before.
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I ran four miles Saturday, and I can tell you I was exhausted after it.
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I ran screaming out of the house.
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I hope these jeans don't run when I wash them.
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I think I'll probably run for about 40 minutes, then come back for a shower.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As they ran on together across the flat open plateau, Yanto explained breathlessly what he had done.
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Most of the former inmates sought refuge in his abbey, and many stayed on to help run it.
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Mr Elliott suffered both internal and external injuries when he was allegedly run down twice by a car at the weekend.
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On my daily mail run to the Chautauqua office I feel the mountains over my shoulder stalking me.
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Sedentary men, particularly those over 40, should not start a running program without a physical exam, he said.
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The servant was frightened and ran away.
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They ran back and found Alice had been struck dead by lighting.
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We run into this problem here in Congress.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
free
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He's allowed the free run of the house.
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For a week, producer Robert Kemp had free run of the camp, interviewing whoever he chose for as long as he chose.
general
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What should we do when confronted with claims which are conspicuously at odds with the general run of experience?
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Credit taken by the general run of consumers - those not in an extremity of financial need - was not specially regulated.
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But the whole day had, thus far, been outside the general run , so laws no longer applied here.
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The general run of shoppers would not believe that the two girls came from the same family.
good
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Investors have also had a good run for their money.
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This sort of angle gives an arcade machine a good run for its money!
long
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In the long run , the outcome of the Delphi Chassis strike could be less important than the walkout itself.
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This could clearly, however, not be sufficient in the long run .
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In the long run , Begin could join forces with others in the far-right to challenge Likud.
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The truth may be that in the long run , as Lincoln thought, people are not fooled.
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Though the central banks wield enormous power, we should not overstate their ability to shape the economy in the long run .
short
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It showed the company that Orrick was willing to make a commitment to them by losing some money in the short run .
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However, in the short run , numerous factors may operate to cause changes in supply.
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In the short run this approach costs more.
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The problem worsens with the relentless financial pressures for immediate performance in the short run .
unbeaten
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United's 3-3 draw with Luton on Tuesday stretched their unbeaten run to four games since John Beck was sacked.
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The comment concerned the standard of opposition Leeds have been facing during this unbeaten run and in particular the last match.
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The 24-year-old turned on the style to stretch the Crues' unbeaten run and book a Gold Cup quarter-final spot.
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The scene looked set for another Bangor triumph, to continue their unbeaten run in domestic football.
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Ants U/16s continued their unbeaten run with a massive 42-0 victory over Bishop Challoner.
usual
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Anything of quality was exciting in those days, for the usual run of food was of a dullness today hardly comprehensible.
■ VERB
allow
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Jason Boyd allowed three runs in two innings.
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He has allowed two or fewer runs in seven of his last 11 starts.
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Had three unsuccessful starts in the postseason, allowing 11 runs in seven innings.
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He pitched the third inning and allowed two runs on four hits.
break
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Dhani and Ian broke into a run , taking the high altar steps three at a time.
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It was all I could do to stop myself breaking into a run .
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Thorfinn spurred, and the wedge of men behind him and behind Cormac and behind Ferteth broke into a pounding run .
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Bigwig turned into it and broke into a run .
end
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Barnet ended a run of four straight defeats by taking a point from their home game with Plymouth.
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The stalemate enabled the fallen champions to end a nine-match run of away defeats and extended Arsenal's poor home run.
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Skipper Colin Jeffrey, another talented batsmen, is hoping Brigade can end their recent run of disappointing batting displays.
make
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It was nice to be part of a winning side and even better to have made a few runs .
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As a batsman he made 3,882 runs at a modest average, but showed himself a robust tail-ender when it mattered.
score
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To score runs they had to put bat to ball - a realisation which came all too late.
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He drove the third ball of the match for three and took another 41 deliveries to score his next run .
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Florida scored its final two runs in the third after Sheffield led off with a high drive to deep right-center.
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It took them five overs to score their first run and they were only saved from disaster by captain Allan Lamb.
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After that hit by Daulton, they scored three more runs .
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Rookie shortstop Jimmy Rollins, the only regular to play, tripled, singled, stole a base and scored two runs .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a close run thing
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Exciting Ormskirk made it two wins out of three but it was a close run thing against New Brighton.
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It was a close run thing.
be in the running/out of the running
be running on empty
be running short (of/on sth)
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Let's go - time's running short .
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Many stores are running short on bottled water.
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Our supply of firewood was running short .
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As we are running short of time, let me end with one area where there is a clear divide.
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He was running short of petrol and that route offered him the chance to capture replenishments along the way.
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He was running short of time.
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Nevertheless, Baldwin felt his time was running short .
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San Francisco may be running short of characters, but new communities pop up every day.
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Still, time is running short .
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Time was running short for Lievin.
be rushed/run off your feet
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All the sales assistants are run off their feet . The shop ought to take on more staff.
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It's my son's birthday party tomorrow. I've been absolutely rushed off my feet getting ready for it.
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Bus managers were expecting to be rushed off their feet .
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He was in livery, and told me he was rushed off his feet .
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Obviously, the emergency services are run off their feet .
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There had been lots of problems, and they were rushed off their feet .
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We were rushed off our feet yesterday.
be/run in sb's blood
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It seemed to be in his blood .
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It would be in his blood in minutes.
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Psychic awareness ran in my blood .
be/run/go counter to sth
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A recipe would be counter to its nature.
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It ran counter to the ideas most Christians had held for well over a thousand years.
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It runs counter to his career-long concern with budget deficits.
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They operate in a way which runs counter to the original purpose of creation.
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This can apply to moral issues and anything which runs counter to the Bible's teaching.
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This would run counter to the very informal information exchange that gives it meaning in this internal context.
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While I did this, I was encouraging her to talk through opinions of her own that ran counter to these discussions.
break into a run/trot etc
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Dhani and Ian broke into a run, taking the high altar steps three at a time.
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He broke into a trot and the three surprised young men did likewise, aware that something must have gone wrong.
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He broke into a trot as he headed up the path to the staff-cabins.
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I walked briskly one block over to Cabana, the wide boulevard that parallels the beach, and broke into a trot.
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It was all I could do to stop myself breaking into a run.
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The animal was struggling with a loose shoe and was in no mood to break into a trot.
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Without waiting to find out what it meant, she broke into a trot and hurried on round the next corner.
cut and run
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We sensed that Borden could cut and run at any moment.
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Its three big domestic rivals do not intend to cut and run either.
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My hands felt clammy, the usual signs of old Shallot beginning to wonder whether it is time to cut and run.
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No way do you feel the urge to cut and run before suffering the onslaught of hypothermia.
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Potential victims never cut and run.
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So they cut and run, on matters of supposed high principle.
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Walker Stamp & Seal was one of the companies forced to decide whether it would cut and run or stay the course.
get/go/run through sth
go/run around in circles
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We've got to solve the problem instead of running around in circles , writing letters that never get answered.
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I had a tendency to run around in circles getting more and more worked up.
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She jumps up and down and runs around in circles .
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That's why there are no solutions and the characters endlessly go around in circles in discussions.
go/run like clockwork
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A universe that ran like clockwork also evinced design.
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And if Lais and Leonore created the promised diversion the plan would go like clockwork .
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Sometimes it ran like clockwork , sometimes-as I wrote at the time-it ran like the movie Clockwise.
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Then we had been surprised when our ascent of the nearby Jankopiti had gone like clockwork .
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Whereas Prost had been delayed as the Ferrari mechanics fiddled with the right-rear wheel, Senna's stop went like clockwork .
go/run to seed
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And a production should not just be a matter of getting a good notice and leaving it to go to seed slowly.
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At the same time, a drought affected the area, and heliotrope had time to grow and go to seed .
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Formerly owned by Arthur Siegel, it had since gone to seed .
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Mark knows he has allowed himself to go to seed a bit.
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She looked middle-aged, overdressed, a show-girl gone to seed .
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The rest of the College, like the theatre, seems in Paul Pry's day to have run to seed .
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Their skin was as smooth as warm water, their hair as soft as a dandelion crown gone to seed .
go/run/flash etc through sb's mind
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I began to wonder what might be going through her mind .
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Over and over it ran through his mind .
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Perhaps more mundane thoughts went through her mind .
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The one occasion which was flashing through Yanto's mind at this moment involved just three of the local water babies.
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The past twenty-two months flashed through my mind like film run at high speed, and suddenly I felt rather tired.
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The thought ran through my mind I heard chaos outside.
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This was staggering new information, and all kinds of ideas were flashing through our minds .
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Who lived there and what was going through their minds ?
hit the ground running
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If we can hit the ground running, we'll stay ahead of the competition.
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Graduates of law school hit the ground running, you see, as soon as they enter practice.
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He said his Navy experience prepared him to jump into new jobs in new places and hit the ground running.
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The company also could shape a well-educated, flexible pool of employment candidates who could hit the ground running.
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The pressures to perform were immense and their careers were on the line: They expect me to hit the ground running.
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They either hit the ground running, or the ground hits them standing still.
in running order
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A nightly news programme, involving late inclusions and enforced changes in running order, is bound to be frenetic.
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Keep the battery fully charged and the engine in running order.
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Two isn't multiplicity and Castelfonte never was in running order, and now they were living in hotels.
in the long run/term
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Arguably, however, the implications of the Manchester North-West result were to become more apparent in the long term.
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But in the long run, it has proved impossible to continue down this path.
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However limited its immediate effects, the ideology of Enlightened Despotism was important in the long term.
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I don't know what good it did David in the long run because what it did was cost a lot of money.
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It invites us to reflect on history with a slower pulse-rate, history in the longer term.
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The consequences of violating this rule had always been unhappy in the long run and not infrequently in the short.
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The funding to do anything, however, must in the long run derive from national resources.
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Yet the saving of money, in the long run, was more important to Mowat than the saving of scenery.
in the short term/run
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These measures may save some money in the short term, but we'll just end up spending more later.
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Although those measures would cost money in the short term, Rep.
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Even marriage into the royal family only assured such support in the short term.
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Evidently not, in the short term, but in the long term Fangorn knows his race and story are sterile.
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Giving sanctuary to political asylum-seekers is seldom rewarded on earth, at least in the short term.
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He predicted more volatile dealings in the short run.
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The vocabulary of every language is so vast that there is no way to eliminate all such hazards in the short run.
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Which are the campaign promises that you believe you can deliver on in the short term?
make sb's blood run cold
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But whenever she passed the wood the tales rushed back into her mind and made her blood run cold.
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Ex-inmate Tony Cohla told yesterday how the thought of ever returning to Ashworth makes his blood run cold.
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He said their evidence had made his blood run cold.
run afoul of sb/sth
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Burgess' illegal use of alcohol ran afoul of the code, a point the righteous Karnaugh was quite eager to make.
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Here I simply introduce them to you and describe how Iberian managers ran afoul of them. 1.
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The bill signed by Leavitt attempts to ban gay student groups without running afoul of this statute.
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Two men died and two boys were seriously injured as vehicles ran afoul of washed-out roads.
run amok
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Troops were allowed to run amok in the villages.
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But speculation about whether he had accomplices has run amok .
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Don't let him go running amok , Bill.
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Double-entendre lyrics run amok at this sonic strip club from hell.
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I think Mum worried that I might run amok and stick my penknife straight into Katie.
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No, our kids are not running amok .
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The Zekes come in against the line of P-40s, one runs amok as others erupt in flames.
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There were Peace Rallies in the 1960s, with stone-throwing anarchists running amok .
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With Thatcher running amok through the welfare state, lobby groups are preoccupied defending what was once thought unassailable.
run around like a headless chicken
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The arcade section is hideous, featuring computer-controlled players running around like headless chickens and never attempting a tackle.
run interference
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Truscati's job is to run interference for troubled kids with their parents, schools, and the courts.
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Even with Hilton Railey running interference , the first twenty-four hours in London were rocky indeed.
run into/hit the buffers
run out of steam
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Fuel protest runs out of steam A national protest by truckers demanding cheaper fuel turned out to be a low-key affair.
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His passion is to say if the constitutional model has run out of steam , change it.
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Mr Chuan was perceived to have run out of steam .
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The Damascus government has run out of steam after 30 years in power.
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The market rallied early in 1995, but then ran out of steam .
run out the clock/kill the clock
run rife
run rings around sb
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Each time the Congress met, which was roughly every six months, Boris Yeltsin ran rings around it.
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For sheer cleverness she could run rings around them all.
run riot
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Ann let her imagination run riot as she wrote.
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Roses ran riot up the wall.
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All kinds of wild ideas ran riot in my brain.
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Because of her weakened state her imagination had run riot .
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Boro threatened to run riot but could not provide the finishing touch.
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Confusion ran riot in Ruth's heart.
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In the Pilkington final two years ago, they ran riot over the Cherry and Whites.
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Now, when far greater things were at stake, she had allowed her emotions to run riot .
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The objects left in the churchyard were open to all manner of interpretation and imagination could run riot .
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When Coleridge got on one and let his imagination run riot , he came up with Kubla Khan.
run roughshod over sb/sth
run sb close
run sb/sth to earth
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He hadn't been there that morning and now she had run him to earth in the café.
run sb/sth to ground
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Badminton: Hall runs Baddeley to ground .
run to fat
run wild
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Football fans ran wild through the city.
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Organized crime has been running wild since the collapse of the old regime.
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Pam just lets here kids run wild .
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She allowed her imagination to run wild .
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At first they were probably running wild , with panic and fear uppermost!
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Because now the workers could run wild .
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Central bankers are allowing global capital to run wild .
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I tell ya, our kids are running wild .
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In the absence of brakes, the system runs wild .
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The children run wild , in shirts and jeans.
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They ran wild , but he was sure a father could correct their ways.
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They run wild into the woods, filthy, skeletal and naked.
run/cast your eye over sth
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A note from Mellowes instructed me to cast my eye over the draft, pronto, for inaccuracies.
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Above him Cornelius ran his eye over a box of ancient cane carpet beaters.
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And of course Prince also casts his eye over rock too.
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He also casts his eye over the proposed law changes.
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I cast my eye over the front page of the Telegraph while Anne poured the coffee.
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The customs officers run their eyes over us as if we weren't there.
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They've even invited Michael Heseltine, care of Spitting Image, to cast his eyes over the exhibition.
run/extend the (full) width of sth
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Even the view from the big window that runs the width of her office is unadorned.
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It ran the width of the ship and was full of machinery.
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She led them on to a small covered terrace running the full width of the house.
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The room she entered ran the width of the house, with windows at both ends.
run/go aground
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More than 72,000 tonnes of crude oil spilled into the estuary after the tanker ran aground in 1996.
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The beach was long, flat and shelved so gently that no normal vessel could have come ashore without running aground .
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The Ecuadorean tanker Jessica started leaking diesel oil after running aground last week.
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The pirate station, which ran aground last November, is using equipment and records donated by listeners.
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The prosecution's case had turned primarily on the allegation that he was drunk when his ship ran aground .
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Y., to Providence, ran aground Friday afternoon after the tugboat pushing it was disabled by an unexplained explosion.
run/go deep
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But the main problem goes deeper and will take longer to solve.
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Maude, on the other hand, had gone deep into the pluperfect, eleven generations of it.
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So did it go deeper than that?
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The debt goes deeper than money.
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The play goes deep and inspires all sorts of questions.
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The tradition of dressing up a corporate image in print runs deep at Investor Insight and its affiliates.
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They can play at being still waters that run deep .
run/go dry
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The reservoir ran dry during the drought.
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Every available hotel room was rented out and, on some weekends, county gasoline pumps ran dry .
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If the trend continues, he said, the springs will go dry .
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If the valve has jammed shut, causing the feed-and-expansion tank to run dry , again turn off the water supply.
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Laura McCaffrey went dry slope skiing at Calshot Activities Centre,.
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Stock tanks normally brimming with water have gone dry .
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The rivers, too, are beginning to run dry .
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Time allowed 00:06 Read in studio A soft drinks company says its could run dry if it doesn't get enough elderflowers.
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With this agreement, our families are for ever linked, even if the rivers run dry and the oceans become deserts.
run/go hell for leather
run/go/drive etc like the clappers
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Little legs going like the clappers .
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Male speaker Inside you are going like the clappers because you are nervous and the tension is building up.
run/hurt/fight etc like hell
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I know he lost his legs first, and then his fingers-he died alone and it hurt like hell .
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I remember running like hell , knowing I was being pursued and looking back for Sarah, who didn't join me.
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I was able to breathe only with the utmost difficulty, and my arm hurt like hell .
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Must have fought like hell to find its niche within the forest, to distinguish itself within the pack.
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My forehead hurt like hell and my body was bruised all over, but no bones were broken.
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Run, North, run; just run like hell .
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Spring sauntered north, but he had to run like hell to keep it as his traveling companion.
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We fought like hell for most of the time.
run/stretch/walk etc the (full) length of sth
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A faint scar ran the length of his left cheek.
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I always enjoyed walking the full length of the street to check how the other shops were faring.
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I would have to walk the length of the shed to reach him.
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Next door, the living room is large and beautifully proportioned, running the length of the house.
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The loft ran the length of the house from front to back, and it was lit by two unshaded forty-watt bulbs.
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Then Red runs the length of the court, grabs a pass, drives to the basket and sinks one.
running battle/joke
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A man whose name is so synonymous with a suntan that it is a running joke in Doonesbury?
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An even longer running battle was fought in the royal dockyards.
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As well as his running battle with Monkou, he left stud marks on defender Richard Hall.
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I was not told, when we left, that I should have to fight a running battle with four hundred horsemen.
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In the resulting confrontation several hundred Mohawks armed with clubs and guns fought running battles with police.
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Police and demonstrators regularly engage in running battles near Mr Suharto's home in central Jakarta.
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The fighters quickly pursued them and eventually shot down every one in a running battle.
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They saw graffiti on important public memorials and they saw running battles with the police.
running commentary
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Attending is simply describing what the child is doing, rather like a running commentary on the activity.
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Don't keep up a running commentary.
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Hearing voices that keep up a running commentary in the head.
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His running commentary was oft-repeated, I guess.
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It becomes a running commentary from navigator to driver.
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Photos of Jack were shown, each thrown up on a large screen with a running commentary.
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This man provided a running commentary on the events on the screen, which were otherwise a fabulous mystery.
running sore
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And Nat was like a running sore, crabby, miserable.
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But finally, she would make of it an ulcer, a running sore that would never heal.
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For Horace it might have been a short madness; in Frere it threatened to become a running sore.
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In fact Meadowell is an Elastoplast name like Sizewell, invented in the 1970s to disguise what was already a running sore.
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Such protestations ferment a running sore which breeds contempt for the authorities.
running total
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Keep a running total of your expenses.
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And you told me you've kept a running total in your head all the year.
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The cost will simply be kept for each project as a running total entered by hand in a cost ledger.
running water
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The sound of running water could be heard like faint background music.
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They lived in a one-room trailer with no running water.
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A sophisticated technology brought running water into private homes, public bathhouses and imperial palaces.
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Although during the winter there had been no running water this had been restored at least in the centre of the town.
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In addition Drake set up artificial ecologies in aquaria and in running water for artificial stream ecologies.
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Somehow, over the running water, she finally heard the loud knocking on the cabin door.
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The village and ashram had no running water, electricity, fans, radio, or telephone.
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They have no electricity, running water or school; their church collapsed years ago.
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We hike up a little more than a mile and find running water.
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We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there.
still waters run deep
take a running jump
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Or, as the Palace will no doubt be recommending to the duchess in due course ... take a running jump.
the running of sth
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Maria helped her mother with the running of the household.
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At first all criticism of the running of the war was muted and was aimed at measures rather than men.
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Changez didn't seem ready to take over the running of Paradise Stores.
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Chapman's revolutionary ideas extended also to the running of the national team.
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Even doing the housework with Aunt Margaret satisfied her; she had a part to play in the running of the home.
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Packers' shareholders have no say in the running of their team.
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Relocation is bound to cause a certain amount of disruption in the running of the business.
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Since Father died and Mam walked out I've had the running of this house on my shoulders.
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The government mobilized troops, ostensibly to maintain order and the running of public services.
the running order
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There are a few changes in the running order for the teachers' conference.
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So Jonathan set the running order up and I was really pleased.
three years/five times etc running
work/drive/run yourself into the ground
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But don't drive yourself into the ground .
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I've already explained to you how I've worked myself into the ground setting up the interview.
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I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember.
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Mitchell and White ran themselves into the ground and Nicky Summerbee tried everything he could to get a goal.
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They ran themselves into the ground , ran Chesterfield off the pitch, but they couldn't get another goal.
work/run/go like stink
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a 5-mile run
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After his run , he took a long shower.
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Both resorts offer beginner to expert runs.
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Camilli scored 936 runs in 12 major-league seasons.
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Dunaway is starring in a six-week run of "Master Class" in Los Angeles.
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Long distance runners follow a different training programme from other athletes.
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The show moves to London's West End after a month's run in Leicester's Gala Theatre.
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The West Indies beat Australia by 273 runs.
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They left Anchorage at nine for the forty-mile run to Matanuska.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As a narrator, Stella gives James Joyce a run for his stream-of-consciousness money.
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But in the long run the outcome of the race between food production and population growth remains too hard to call.
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Cher wins the prize for longest run of success.
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Countess Maud was set for a record run .
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Your educated boys went at it a little more privately and gracefully, but sometimes destroyed more people in the long run .