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Sentence Examples I felt a shiver run up my spine as our shoulders touched, and I moved away from him slightly. I smile at them brightly, a shadow of the girl they always wanted, and run up the stairs, excusing myself from the table. That access road gives him an unimpeded run up to a traffic light about a quarter of a mile away. But even if you never set foot in a fast-food joint, you can still inadvertently run up your trans-fat numbers. A mother is urging parents to beware of thieves selling stolen bikes in the run up to Christmas. So I quickly run up stairs and slip on my pink mini, pleated skirt, and my tank top and run down stairs. In his defence, it could be argued that a party leader ought to run up bigger expenses than his minions. Assistants and servants had been given carte blanche to run up bills in the town. He burst forward on a powerful run up the left, played a one-two with Spencer, sped on and crossed low across the goal. He trimmed the flight feathers to various lengths, and made them run up slopes of different slopes and textures. Setting a blistering pace on the run up Honey Rose scorched around the opening turns to set herself up nicely for victory. Laws to control the sale of fireworks are being flouted in the run up to Bonfire Night, a Manchester Evening News investigation has revealed. Each morning elderly men in crewcuts and bolo ties emerge from behind the redundant locks of ranchstyles to run up the flag. They can potentially tap into your bank account or run up debts without you knowing a thing about it. She was ill during hustings and had to send a proxy to make speeches on her behalf in the run up to polling day. Retailers in Kingston selling fireworks to underage youths in the run up to Guy Fawkes night had better watch out. The Air Force has invited students to accrue the benefits from the career opportunities exhibition as a run up to the recruitment rally. It was down to a tie-breaker game of 11 aces which saw the Cavan pair run up an early lead of 6-2 and seemed to be heading for the win. It's worth remembering that it's not only the obvious racketeers who are guilty of enticing people to run up debts they can't afford. We get into the house, and while Nathan and his brother head straight for the living room, I run up the stairs and draw a long, hot bath for him. Show More Sentences Shes A Whisper was last out of traps on the inside but enjoyed a dream run up the rails which left her clear at the turn. In the run up to the recent publication of its results, the bank was precluded from buying shares under stock exchange rules. He was almost last out of traps but hugging the rails enjoyed a dream run up the inside to lead at the turn. Offenses can't run up the middle on them, and many teams take plays out of their game plans when facing defenses that feature these players. Racers across Chippenham are busy practising their flipping skills this week in the run up to the town's annual pancake showdown on Tuesday. The concert, which will include Ukranian folk songs and dances, as well as some English music suitable for the run up to Christmas, will be free. In her prime, she used to run up and down the aisles of her Chicago church whipping the congregation into a frenzy. Gregory felt a chill run up his spine at the wistful, dreamy tone of her voice. We the electorate now have a chance to pose questions and raise the political debate on this issue in the run up to the forthcoming election. He was a talented all-rounder, bowling his leg breaks off a very long run up. At several bends in the road, hungry dogs run up to the bus, yapping loudly. In the run up to special occasions, I always buy a large Stilton and stand it on a dish in the fridge. The engines were run up to 2500 rpm with the yokes held hard back and both men clinging to the bucking columns. Icelanders are brought up to leap across waterfalls, spring through rivers, run down mountains, run up mountains. The only way that he have escaped was by climbing hand over hand, up the girders that run up the side of the jail, to a fanlight on the roof. She was reluctant to leave but headed off into the darkness, reins fastened to the saddle and stirrups run up the leathers. Trying to legislate a policy for something that doesn't yet exist would run up against all sorts of problems. This boat is fun in a class 1 riffle, and once you get the hang of it, you can use it to run up to class 3 rapids. Around the cities TV and billboards sporting witches on broomsticks and wild scary false faces, dominate the run up to the first of November 1st. It means he could even run up against his old partner Simon Archer, the Olympic bronze and Commonwealth gold medal winner at mixed doubles. Show More Sentences You put a box in here, the apples run up a roller and this machine only sorts, it doesn't wash. We will encounter the second obstacle to a smooth transition to democracy in the period between nominations and the run up to elections. Our own artillery had to run up a good distance to get in range of the enemy artillery. She walked for about a quarter of a mile and then suddenly broke into an oblique run up the soft part of the beach. More costs were run up the next morning when the plumber returned to fit a temporary stop-cock. As a result of mismanagement, debts of 110 million guilders had been run up and these were taken on by the Dutch state. He also suggested BT should use technology to detect obvious faults in the system before such enormous bills were run up. The bank has been compliant in allowing the football club to run up a level of debt it could never pay back from trading. Watching musicals as a child sparked her interest, and she had her mother run up a Sound of Music dress to wear in a talent show at school. He was obsessed by her looks, to the extent of commissioning designers to run up body-hugging dresses for her. The bell at the Empire Hotel would ring at midday and a flag would be run up the pub's flag-pole to indicate the postponement of the match. However, the product is simpler and has a decent digital manual to guide you through most of the issues you're likely to run up against. The high-flying Tykes had run up a record seven successive victories in the tournament before Durham knocked them off their perch last year. It opens in the UK on November 25 and should provide the perfect romantic night out for the love-struck among you in the run up to Christmas. A dancer attempts to run up the slope, but repeatedly slips down, to the point of tedium. He raised his hand in the air, signaling the offensive play, and passed it off to Rob, who had run up to the free-throw line. This week, in the run up to Hallowe'en, she will be donning a witch's hat and a hooked nose. Then we slip into Caribbean time and spend the next two hours talking and watching the waves run up the beach in the burning afternoon sun. So Lori would run up ahead of us, trying to gain the coveted spot of bell-ringer and first soprano. There was an emergency exit stairway that she was able to run up. Show More Sentences When I travel and kids run up to me, all that the girls want to do is look in my purse and put on my lip glosses and chapsticks. Warp threads are those which run up and down the length of a piece of textile, weft threads are those that run across the weave at right angles to the warp. The race began to develop in the final quarter-mile, with Tony Culhane getting a dream run up the rails a furlong out on the 40-1 shot and setting sail for home. Lior, approaching ever closer, saw the terrorist run up to the jeep and point the barrel of his gun directly at the head of one of the unconscious policemen. So at the end of every day in the run up to a grant payment, I and a few others would pool whatever meagre amount we had into a pot, and play cards for it. Final preparations before racing begins are well under way and Ascot has now placed its livery and branding on the run up to the racecourse and over the winning post. He said that in the run up to the political contest elements of the extreme right would re-emerge in Oldham looking to exploit divisions for political gain. Manchester city centre had already bucked the national trend for a drop in sales in the run up to Christmas and has also shown a leap in the amount of cash hitting the tills. The government is proposing 200 city academies, including 60 in London, although several such schemes have recently run up against local parental opposition. If I'd run up that kind of debt I would have called my father from a banana republic far to the south to say good-bye and hung up before the call could be traced. I furiously brushed my hair smooth after my run up to my room. With a 14-scoreline in almost as many minutes it looked like the Cougars were going to run up a cricket score but the game disintegrated into a scrappy affair. If we had achieved that we would have run up a cricket score. The ballot slips had to be signed to validate the vote but fears were raised in the run up to the election that voters did not understand instructions on the papers. The run up the Sqaulicum line is made in reverse, with the engine pushing any cars, and a caboose leading the way on the long back-up move to the cold storage plant. In a closed meeting, he stuck it to the Internet gambling site's rep and lawyer, by threatening to go to the press with the fact they let a minor run up so much debt. His masses of troops had also run up against seemingly unbreakable defenses. As happy as he and his wife are to be living in Paris, they run up against a predictable array of everyday bureaucratic troubles. Delve deeper and you run up against the social profanity that was lynching. But the belief in ascent on the basis of merit alone began to run up against new realities. Show More Sentences I run up the ladder and hear the engine on that side go out of gear. Subject to this overriding consideration, the umpire at the bowler's end should stand where he does not interfere with either the bowler's run up or the striker's view. Triks managed to run up and goose her just as the photo was being taken. Because she feels that historical facts were creatively interpreted in the run up to the conflict, she invented her own lexis to convey her stance. So we whizzed up to Hertfordshire to get the boxes, then picked up more from the old gaff, and then dashed over to run up and down the stairs a few hundred times. And when you've all done pitying, you have to run up to Stephen, grab hold of both of his great puddingy cheeks and give them a good old nip and stretch of congratulations. He was wearing dark shorts and a dark singlet with old white runners when he approached the girl and he was puffed out after having run up to her. There's plenty of Folk at the Proke in Batley in the run up to Christmas, starting tonight. Artillery marched his troops into town and had the American flag run up the fort's flagpole. When the tsunami's wave peak reaches the shore, the resulting temporary rise in sea level is termed run up. Eurostar Trains were suspended that day with thousands of passengers stranded in the run up to Christmas. These run up to every 20 minutes between Embankment Pier and North Greenwich Pier. In the run up to the recording, they performed for the first time in the United States, supporting The Boo Radleys in New York. The old-school coach felt that his team's weak opponent had no business playing his strong team, so he decided to run up the score. Komodos can run up to 13 miles per hour, as well as climb trees, swim, and stand upright to fight other animals. It is no longer good enough in this day and age that hitmen can run up and down Ireland killing people and seemingly get away with it. Miss Hewitt has already ordered hit squads to take over the financial running of 18 other trusts which have run up massive deficits. The enumerators have made pre-survey visits to the households in the run up to the survey. Valuations of fast moving consumer goods, or FMCG, stocks have run up quite a bit and it may be time for a correction, say experts. This was in contrast to her publicly stated opposition to a Conservative Government on the run up to the election. Show More Sentences The ball comes into play when the bowler begins his run up, and becomes dead when all the action from that ball is over. But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees. When taking off, albatrosses need to take a run up to allow enough air to move under the wing to provide lift. Deasil Gallery in Leamington is staging a mixed show in the run up to Christmas, exhibiting pieces by a number of artists it has worked with. The ball still swings early on, however, particularly from the Nursery End if a breeze gives the bowler a bit more oomph in his run up. The company is offering a selection of stocking fillers in the run up to Christmas which provide practices with an opportunity for extra revenue. In the run up to July's eclipse, Chinese researchers have prepared eight gravimeters and two pendulums spread across six monitoring sites. In the run up to Julys eclipse, Chinese researchers have prepared eight gravimeters and two pendulums spread across six monitoring sites. In the run up to this week's Aries New Moon, it's important to weigh thoughts and measure words carefully. In the run up to the 2017 General Election, Dawkins once again endorsed the Liberal Democrats and urged voters to join the party. Originally, the main would have would have been run up the mast on a boltrope. The latest model has run up against the limits of its technical capacity. Ronnie walked off silent, a reminder that if you run up the patriotic flag, the pole has to be based on solid foundations or it's just makebelieve. In the run up to the United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016, Morpurgo expressed his support for the European Union in an interview with BBC News. The first wave to reach the shore may not have the highest run up. Examples from Classical Literature At times it seems to be endeavoring to run up a chromatic scale, so, in some districts, it is called the Scale Bird. A little further on, I saw a green woodpecker fly to a tree, and run up the trunk like a cat. But they probably also act like grey mullet, and run up the estuaries merely for a cruise. There should be approximately one minute before the major color changes began, which was also the minimum time for gyro run up. We had honest Injun run up from one dollar till it was over twenty dollars a share. These fibres of the trapezium come from the cochlear nucleus of the auditory nerve, and run up as the lateral fillet. He could run up the mast to set the lantern or clear a line as spryly as a cat. When Sainte-Beuve published it, he had run up, or down, a rather curious gamut of creeds and crazes. The same with cryptography, which we've both run up against, no doubt, in course of business. All the apparatus was in readiness except that the three demountable sections of the tower had yet to be run up into position. It was only matchboard, she decided, run up to make many little rooms of one large one. He let out that Myler was on the beer to run up the odds and he swatting all the time. If Kuropatkin could see just one of these awful onslaughts, he would run up the white flag and hie himself to safety. Whistle softly and a bright-coated fellow will run up even upon your shoulder to show his appreciation of the swan song. We shall have to drift about for a while and then run up a distress signal. When they were completed, Spike returned on board, run up his boat, and squared away for the Dry Tortugas. The mouses used to run up his back and eat the powder and pomatum from his hair. And in an eon of lying they never have run up against a short-circuit like that. Roses are about the worst, for they soon run up leggy, and only flower at the top out of sight. The mainsail was cast loose, jib and staysail ready, and the gaff topsail would not take many minutes to run up in its place. Show More Sentences Then we determined to run up to Buenos Aires, and with our light-horseman to take one of the pinnaces that rid at the town. No longer did the squirrel run up spruce trees, leap from branch to branch, or cling chattering to giddy perches. We'll have an early breakfast and run up there in the barracouta. But he's so worried about his fitness levels that he has abstemiously kept off alcohol and fast food in the run up to the event. I don't know anything about the game, and I should probably run up against some wildcat company. Tell Mrs. Van Geist if she Can't come down, I'll run up to her. He and the vicar had run up a sudden friendship, on the strength of their common enthusiasm for the old-fashioned game of backgammon. The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand. It wants the major party leaders to back these changes in the run up to the 2015 election. If he comes browsing about this farm, he might chance to run up against a charge of buckshot travelling in the opposite direction. Why does soda water run up a straw when you draw on the straw? Then he began to run up the stairwell toward the good lifeboat. We'll run up to London to-morrow, and see if we can hurry those English law solicitors. It was, I perceive, a jerry-built scheme, run up at short notice. The Jessie swung off under her full staysail, then the foresail, double-reefed, was run up. David Willis, the BBC's California correspondent, is the latest to cross swords with the Gladiator star in the run up to Sunday night's Oscars. It's clever, and it's powerful, whatever we've run up against. They run up swiftly, as straight as a rod, till they overtop the veterans. They have run up the yellow flag wherever it is to be found. Look at the people you run up against in the course of a few hours. Show More Sentences Honest fellows, like you and me, run up against it and get taken in. Then, climbing on the roof, he had with his own hand bent and run up the colours. Ole Ericsen verified Charley's conjecture that the Mary Rebecca, as soon as launched, would run up the San Joaquin River nearly to Stockton for a load of wheat. If the initial play is to first, he should run to a point On the foul line about 10 feet from the bag, then run up the inside of the foul line to the bag. The Brogans then took centre stage though as Bernard, rested from the start, popped over a superb equaliser before his run up the endline led to Alan's decisive goal. The measure was included in the Queen's Speech today, which spells out the Government's plans for new laws in the run up to next year's general election. He gurgled wordlessly, and Claire went on, her low, sad voice mingling with the moonlight in a manner that caused thrills to run up and down his spine. There was considerable debate in the run up to George's birth over whether the duchess would hand her child off to a royal wet-nurse or feed through formula. Find more words! 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