• John was also a keen judo exponent but he injured his knee and could not keep fit by running.
• All of Campbell's children are involved in sport and it was they who persuaded him to start running while on holiday three years ago.
• Boxers normally exercise, run and spend hours in the sauna to lose weight.

• The British athlete ran a personal best to win the 400m and gain a one point lead over his rivals.
• Athletes must run three of the four races to qualify for overall prize.
• Spanish athlete Morta Dominguez ran superbly to take the silver ahead of Ethiopia's Ayelech Worko who won the bronze.

Synonyms

• Willie Mullins runs Rule Supreme in today's Ladbrokes' World Hurdle, but has also left him in the Gold Cup.
• Dermot Weld has won the race five times, most recently with Refuse To Bend two years ago, and he runs Elusive Double in the same colours.
• Any trainer who wants to run a horse in any race must log that entry with Weatherbys.

• The last ball of the over was hit in the air - the batsmen ran - the fielder dropped it!
• He ran excellently between the wickets as well, especially in the last few overs.

• The wind blew from the north and the ship ran swiftly before the wind.

• Beats higher up the river are often more prolific this late in the season with fish running hard to the middle and upper stretches.
• There are still fresh spring fish running, and the grilse are beginning to arrive in numbers, with a lot of small fish among them.

• The filming schedule was so hectic and she was running from shoot to shoot.
• Most people seemed to be either arguing with each other over what to buy who, or frantically running round desperate to find things to buy.
• The world is a dangerous enough place now without letting idiots run round with explosives.

• It was the Exxon Valdez which ran aground on the Alaskan coast in 1989 spilling 40 million litres of crude oil.
• Scientists believe it ran aground on the estuary's treacherous sandbanks and capsized with 50 or 60 hands on deck.
• The tanker ran aground on the eastern-most island in the Galpagos group.

• Then one night two years ago, Aaron was driving one of their friends home from their house when a drunk driver ran a stop light and hit the car.
• Two young men on a motorcycle were stopped for running a red light on Pattaya Central Road.
• Some 220 of the fatal accidents were caused by people running red lights or stop signs.

• Ten boats, each manned by two skilled operators with up to eight passengers, can be hired to run the rapids.
• In short, he has both the strength and skill to run any whitewater that's runnable.
• The other trainees ran the rapid again and again; I pitched a tent and crawled into my sleeping bag.

• I marched over to the sink, turned on the lukewarm water and ran my arms under it.
• If you run it under hot water you will also find that when you leave it to dry in the cutlery drainer it will dry off quicker and have fewer streaks.
• I rip the lid off the bottle of shampoo and run it under the water to try and get the last drop out.

• I wandered into the bathroom and began to run the bath, filling it with hot water.
• Back in the sanctuary of my dimly-lit rooms I ran the bath, stripped off and sank into the water.
• Giles said he was running a bath and it had almost overflowed.

• Tin shanties litter the backyards of the more formal brick housing, rows of chemical toilets stand outside homes, and the untarred roads run with streams of filthy water.
• For some two hours, we drove on rutted gravel running with rainwater.
• He collapsed onto the bed, his face running with sweat.

Synonyms

• About a half hour later, my nose started running.
• A few minutes later, my nose is running, I'm sneezing and coughing, and there are sharp pains behind my eyes.
• His head aches, he feels dizzy and nauseous, and his nose won't stop running.

Synonyms

• Her black mascara was running and she knew she looked horrible.

• The base of the cliff is heavily undercut, so you certainly do not want to be here on a stormy day or when a full spring ebb tide is running.
• If the tide is running, a large shoal of bib will probably be holding position here against the current that surges through beneath the wreck.
• The bottom was barely visible in the gloom and there was a reasonable tide running.

• Their dye never ran, which is what made all their products sought after.
• Dry-cleaning also prevents the common problem of the dye bleeding and running.
• I thought that I had prewashed out all the excess dye but it ran anyway.

• A villager has criticised the rail service which runs trains to and from his rural community, claiming the transport needs of people living in the countryside are being ignored.
• As well as the Manchester Airport services, it runs trains from Liverpool to Hull and Newcastle and Manchester Piccadilly to Cleethorpes.
• The firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Dutch state-owned NS train operator, which runs the majority of services in the Netherlands.

• First Buses, which runs children to and from Prince Henry's Grammar School, says the school's tough discipline policy makes life easier for its drivers.
• I feel sorry for her, as she spends all her time running me to classes.
• Here's my car ... can I run you home?

Synonyms

• His job was to ensure the company's IT system ran smoothly.
• If your investment plan is running smoothly, you probably don't have to fiddle with it.
• If the world economy were running smoothly then it would not be a serious problem.

• We contacted a doctor who ran a series of tests on Erin at his office.
• Bexley Centre for the Unemployed is running a free course in food hygiene in the Boys Brigade hall next to Christ Church in Bexleyheath Broadway.
• GM currently is running a pilot program in Brazil and investigating plans for Australia and Japan.

Synonyms

• With servicing and maintenance paid for in advance, the cost of running the vehicle each year becomes much more predictable.
• Transport, our biggest expense, includes buying and running a vehicle, plus fares for public transport.
• Drivers are also concerned at the rising cost of running their vehicles.

Synonyms

• When the show aired, I recorded it onto a 3/4" videotape and I don't think I've run the tape since that night.
• Brendan ran the tape back a few inches, turned the VCR on again and watched the girls at work a second time.

• All the sentences will run concurrently, giving him a total of three months behind bars.
• He was given two years for grievous bodily harm and 28 days for the drug offence, the sentences to run concurrently.
• Francis was jailed for nine years for the first attack and 15 for the second, the sentences to run concurrently.

• The play runs until Saturday, October 23, in Studio 2, with performances each evening at 7.45 pm.
• The panto runs from Wednesday to Friday at 7.15 pm with Saturday matinees at 2pm and 6pm.
• The play runs from Monday to the following Saturday at 7.30 pm with a Saturday matinee at 2.30 pm.

Synonyms

• In fact, six opposition parties ran candidates (although three pulled out at the last minute).
• If the party chooses to run only two candidates, it is certain they will come from either side of the constituency.
• Te party wants to run two candidates with a national profile.

• The very first paragraph of my book The Truth about Writing runs as follows.
• There's an old saying that runs along the lines of ‘no publicity is bad publicity’.
• CD copying is not just illegal, runs the argument, but immoral.

• My wife has been running cattle for 35 years.
• Don Armstrong runs sheep at Yalda Downs in outback New South Wales.
• Linn Blancett and his wife, Tweeti, have been running cattle here for much of their lives.

• They looked at each other and set off at a run, the girl trailing behind them, and the boy behind her.
• He hit the ground at a run, not even pausing to pick his backpack up from where he had dropped it in the dirt.
• Jake scrambled downstairs at a run and launched himself at Jonathan with a cry of joy.

• Fish runs attract pinnipeds, which attract great whites.
• Crowds of people and predators greet the arrival of many fish spawning runs.
• Maritz said shad runs were unlike the annual sardine run, where the smaller fish were trapped between warm currents and the land.

• As it's been such a nice day, after having had lunch at Blairmains this afternoon I thought it would be nice to go for a run in the car, so we headed off northwards to Callander, where we had a nice walk around and some ice cream in the sunshine.
• We went for a run in the car and ended up in Bundoran so we went bowling.
• Yesterday, Val came for lunch and then we went for a run out to Milngavie to the Garden Centre and came home laden with purple and yellow primulas for the balcony.

Synonyms

• With following winds reaching 42 knots we surfed up Clarence Strait, across Sumner Strait and didn't have headwinds until the last few miles into tiny Louise Cove on Kuiu Island, a day's run of 110 miles.

• This was now a critical phase of the bomb run and a time when the formation was most vulnerable.
• One day we were in a position in the formation where it was logical for the copilot to fly the bomb run.
• They were now going to make a desperate run towards their target, bomb it, and get the hell out.

• Several test runs are being done before the formal opening.
• Some of the more impressive test runs can be seen in these videos from Georgia Tech and Stanford University.
• It was a little project that he had been working on, and he figured it was time to give the pen a test run.

• Although this is his first run for elected office, Nolla is not a political novice.
• The obvious consequence is that only people with money or with access to money can make serious runs for public office.
• He firmly denied any suggestion that he had struck a deal in return for giving his fellow Right-winger the prospect of a clear run.

• Palace are three points adrift at the bottom on a run of five defeats, but Dowie insists the league table should be no shock.
• Gaelic Players Chicago and Tara Theatre Company, Winnipeg, have had sellout runs with the play over the past twelve months and Westport Drama Group became the first Irish group to stage the play last April.
• Still, they both extended their unbeaten runs to five matches.

• This is not too bad when the number of components is relatively small, or the production runs are relatively large.
• We do not know what their production runs were, but this is stuff you can keep.
• On the other hand, he says, the production runs tie up money.

• A good long run of CW1308 cable can be used for ADSL; 50m can typically be easily achieved without any noticeable degradation.
• Place a separate order for each run of cable needed.
• Wire adjusters are a means of shortening or extending the length of the wires that run out to the signals, because changes in the weather can have a substantial effect on a long run of wire.

• The first movement moves to a too-stately tread, although the 16th note runs are light enough.
• His tone and legato playing are ravishing, and his execution of the composer's florid runs and other figurations is smooth.

• As in most rummy games, the possible melds are sets of equal cards and runs of consecutive cards in the same suit.
• The player must specify (if it is not clear) whether the meld is a run or a set, the rank of the set, and the rank and suit of a run.

• The participants called for the formulation of guidelines for journalists to prevent them from publishing alarming stories that contribute to runs on commercial banks.
• Uruguay floated its currency late last month following a run on banks and a plunge in foreign reserves.
• The merchant community organized a run on the banks, and the Government gave in.

Synonyms

• Thankfully the incident did not divert the attention of either side from the main goal of winning the game though the hold-up was to have a significant bearing on the run of play.
• Fortunately the U.S. managed to get a third goal against the run of play to seal the game.
• It is only in the last decade that the industry has begun to appreciate and champion the importance of old trees that have survived against the run of forestry fashion.

Synonyms

• He also learned to read various animal trails, runs, beds and feeding areas and how to track and trap them.
• Where rabbit-proof fencing cuts across badger runs, particularly near active setts, the badgers are likely to dig under or make holes in the netting, thus allowing rabbits to cross the fence.
• Trees should be felled away from any holes, main badger runs or obvious latrines.

• We had the run of this house, a bungalow with long corridors and lots of weird things to play with and things we were told not to touch.
• Better still, give them the run of the house while you stay in the hotel.
• We discovered very quickly that he couldn't be given the run of the house.

Synonyms

• When the pastoralists pushed north, looking for grazing land and runs for their sheep, Thomas Elder was one of them to take up large leases in the Beltana area.
• The great cause of conflict was Aborigines taking cattle and sheep from newly established grazing runs.

• The Tigers fared far better in other categories, leading the league with 185 home runs and 671 runs scored.
• On balance, stolen bases have very little to do with runs scored.

• Then I heard and saw a good rise that was obviously from a much bigger fish at the bottom of a run under some trees.
• Fall floods seem to have improved the river topography and most who have walked the river suggest the number of runs with fish-holding potential has vastly improved.