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  • Just the other day, I was almost run over by a two-wheeling speed demon who felt that a four-way stop applied to everyone but him and his Schwinn. Keith Ecker: Bikers vs. Drivers vs. Pedestrians: The War Wages On
  • The fact that the cubs were orphans, abandoned when their mother was run over by a car, was of no account.
  • The value of these in companies, whose systems are run over the web and involve complex networks of social interaction, are obvious. Computing
  • The last drop makes the cup run over. 
  • I put my head under the tap and let the cool water run over me.
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  • And a man who ran alongside a tow truck, pleading to get his vehicle back after it was towed from a fire lane, died when he slipped and was run over by the truck and then his own Chevrolet Suburban. Boing Boing: July 24, 2005 - July 30, 2005 Archives
  • A chase involves larger, rigid fences while a hurdle race is run over shorter, more flexible obstacles.
  • She works in wildlife rehabilitation, caring for animals that have been run over in the road or abandoned.
  • Extra races are being proposed for the meeting, currently run over three days from Tuesday to Thursday, including a cross-country chase.
  • It's just the exuberance of puppydom, and it's charming to watch, if you manage not to get run over in the process. Actual Knitting Content
  • I've seen Don run over 40 racks in nine ball, says Fred Whalen.
  • I suppose it's the day of reckoning for him as it his first run over fences. The Sun
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • The burgers are so flat they look like they've been run over by a Mack truck: thin patties, thin buns, thin slices of cheese and a thin runny sauce with meat bits in it.
  • Parades run over several weekends, so as not to clash with other parades in neighbouring areas.
  • The course will be held in the evening and will run over a period of 10 weeks.
  • We try our best to limit our expenditure to the original sum,but we may run over by a few pounds.
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • I was afraid that gazabo was going to run over you, is why I cut it. '' Jean of the Lazy A
  • I put my head under the tap and let the cool water run over me.
  • He started digging through a disorderly pile of assorted framed pictures, including several that looked like they had been run over by a truck.
  • BLOOMINGTON -- A 16-year-old Bloomington boy remained hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday night after being run over by a van during what police described as horseplay with friends Monday in the O†™ Neil Park parking lot. News from www.pantagraph.com
  • Using the endoscope through the small lateral incision, the surgeon dissects the entire cheek from the orbital run over to the nose, down to the top of the mouth out to the side over the zygoma so the whole cheek can be freed and moved up.
  • There should be a clean section, a uniform base, the material pumped in with binder, a road roller run over it for compaction and a smooth pavement at the end of the repair.
  • He had come in at daybreak from the neighboring village, with the news that the old mother had been run over by a cart at the fair and could not travel for many days. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
  • He probably needed that first run over hurdles. The Sun
  • Especially one with the speed to run over the minimum distance, two miles. Times, Sunday Times
  • This non-recognition of immediate threats extends to civilians, who won't necessarily run out of the way of firefights or cars, getting run over or shot in the process.
  • Feature movies always run over budget.
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • The course will run over six weeks in May and June and will teach people to upgrade and repair computers and configure their operating systems.
  • Feature movies always run over budget.
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • The last drop makes the cup run over. 
  • Wires could be soldered to the tube socket terminals to run over to the breadboarding sockets.
  • Imperious piebald porkers parked in the middle of the roads challenge you to run over them.
  • One day, he was run over by a hit-and-run driver. The Sun
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • He was wounded twice in different gunfights, run over by a smuggler, fought in World War I and lived a hair-raising life on the Prohibition-era Mexican border.
  • It was inevitable that a feral teenager in a stolen car was going to run over someone.
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • We trust that you will listen to what your public are saying and that you will respect that the people saying these things are well placed to do so and are sick of their opinions being run over by the political bulldozer that is supposed to serve them.
  • A dog which was run over, a set of misplaced keys and a woman wanting a plumber were just a few of the incidents Bradford's emergency services dealt with this year.
  • Whilst I were a squatting, tying up my bundle, I heered all of a suddent -- somebody runnin ', brip -- brap --! and up kern a man from round the corner of the stationhouse, a runnin' full tilt; and he would a run over me, but I grabbed my bundle and riz up. At the Mercy of Tiberius
  • Are those flames shooting out the back of the pimpmobile or is about to run over some sheafs of wheat? Ow.
  • Tests were run over telephones and intercoms to determine optimum degrees of loudness for giving instructions and commands.
  • When the well is full, it will run over. 
  • Docherty said the companies will continue to compete with each other on telecommunications services they run over the joint network.
  • The talks have run over the 15 November deadline.
  • Anya let the cool water run over her as she lay down in the shallow creek.
  • When I was in South Africa as a student volunteer for a game reserve, we had to euthanise a turtle that had been run over. Holy Water in the water bowl… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • We try our best to limit our expenditure to the original sum,but we may run over by a few pounds.
  • The man himself was killed, merely 22 years old, allegedly, and rather unheroically, run over by a truck.
  • Tie-down straps were run over the cans and the excess strapping was used to put an extra turn in the tie-down ratchet.
  • A neighbour of mine had a dog that was run over, it lost three of its legs, these caring people would not hear of the vet putting him down, so instead they used to take him out for a ‘drag’ a couple of times a day.
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • The race is run over 22 miles and takes competitors through open moorland and on farm tracks, footpaths and roads.
  • The cook in the well-equipped princely kitchen had to know how to use dozens of different pieces, from the maccaroni iron a row of circular blades combined into a kind of rolling pin that could be run over a sheet of dough to cut it into strips, to the newfangled triple spit-turner. Delizia!
  • And even though tires are sometimes better able to cope with overinflation when it comes to service pressure than the rims do, this fact shouldn't allow you to run overinflated.
  • It began to run over the main deck and the crew hurried off to shelter in the accommodation.
  • Some of the semitranslucent fabric panel sections will be up to 120 feet wide and run over two miles long. Christo vs. Colorado
  • House, Oxfordshire, the house of a noble Knight, and favourer of my Muse; and Elegy on a Bullfinch, 1648; of the Four Mile Course of Bayaides Green, six times run over, by two famous Irish footmen, Patrick Dorning and William O'Farrell. Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850
  • She was unaccustomedly late, thanks to a luncheon appointment that had run overtime and the snow flurries of the uncooperative January weather. Captivated by the Tycoon
  • A chase involves larger, rigid fences while a hurdle race is run over shorter, more flexible obstacles.
  • The value of these in companies, whose systems are run over the web and involve complex networks of social interaction, are obvious. Computing
  • She will run over her lines in the evening.
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • They supervised and run over high-powered machines, ripsaws and all like that, checked them over. Oral History Interview with Hill Baker, June 1977. Interview H-0109-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
  • When the well is full, it will run over. 
  • Oh, I suppose the old gentleman, who has been run over by the Coal-waggon and is lying bleeding on the asphalte, is remonstrating with the driver? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 14, 1891
  • Five people were killed by gunfire and one was run over during the clashes. Times, Sunday Times
  • The cat got run over by the lorry and squashed.
  • When the well is full, it will run over. 
  • However, they were almost run over by a road sweeper vehicle. Times, Sunday Times
  • Will you run over to the shop and get some butter?
  • When the well is full, it will run over. 
  • The pedestrian who had nearly been run over reported the incident to the police.
  • Watching a computer-generated avatar steal cars and run over pedestrians is an odd accompaniment to the mood-massaging music, but undoubtedly an entertaining one.
  • He described being involved in a number of heroic rescues including rescuing a woman from a burning car, saving a child from being run over and preventing an old woman being mugged.
  • Besides, a pony-carriage that is intended only to carry a light weight, and to run over smooth turf or a good road, need not be built so strongly as a travelling carriage, which is to convey luggage as well as passengers, and which will be exposed to all the rough treatment it is likely to meet with at inns, as well as the shaking it will probably undergo from the different kinds of roads to be driven over. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
  • It began to run over the main deck and the crew hurried off to shelter in the accommodation.
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • A boy was run over by a truck and got killed immediately.
  • Run over 12 furlongs it is the longest race on the card and is worth 1 million.
  • “Will you run over, once again, what the boy said?” asks Mr. Tulkinghorn, putting his hands into the pockets of his rusty smallclothes and leaning quietly back in his chair. Bleak House
  • Most must borrow from the banks or run overdrafts to keep their cashflow going. The Sun
  • If I hadn't been so baked, I would have run over there at top speed.
  • Run over them with a mower then use them as a mulch under shrubs. Times, Sunday Times
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • Run over 12 furlongs it is the longest race on the card and is worth 1 million.
  • The cat got run over by the lorry and squashed.
  • The car that had rooked her fool hand could run over the club-fist five or six times, and it wouldn't be worse for the wear. Good Country. People.
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • A deep furrow has formed in the rock, where water has run over it for centuries.
  • I'm sure that he will also be stirring his players by reminding them that their supposed role in the last-day drama is to lie down and let the big boys run over them.
  • Equally, many racehorses can run over six furlongs and ten, but far fewer can win at both. Times, Sunday Times
  • As soon as she was out of the car, Ray stepped on the gas and shot forward, trying to run over my grandmother.
  • Will you run over to the shop and get some butter?
  • Not a "bam" nor a "wham", but more of a "whplam", like the truck had just run over a loose cattleguard, or a piece of heavy plastic in the road. Grouse Diary Entry
  • The rally consisted of 22 stages run over 3 days in mainly dry conditions.
  • One teamster was run over by his own wagon.
  • I mean, I've seen the plug-in electrics, but I'm also seen a few dopes run over their own extension cords. Properly Insert Earplugs For Better Protection | Lifehacker Australia
  • I'll just run over what's been said so far, for latecomers who missed the first speakers.
  • I wouldn't want ya ta get run over by a street-car. mulct Robinson for cash, and then exploit his painting hobby for more. Princeofcairo: Film Fest In July
  • A chase involves larger, rigid fences while a hurdle race is run over shorter, more flexible obstacles.
  • Her first reaction was to run over there, and catch Jackie before she fell, but Jason beat her to it.
  • It was different that night, not the way they yelled at me when I walked into the house with mud on my shoes; more the sound of screeching brakes when my dog was run over - going on and on  forever. My Life as a Part-Time Rapist, Full- Time Comedian
  • The course will run over six weeks in May and June and will teach people to upgrade and repair computers and configure their operating systems.
  • After the first run over the measured kilometre, the timekeeper shouted, ‘Plus 47!’
  • The downside of its fixed-price contracts is that costs can run over. Times, Sunday Times
  • At one point I was forced to leap into a hip-high drift to avoid being run over by an oil truck.
  • Since the Validation program may take several hours to run, it is recommended that it is run overnight in batch mode.
  • Tina was weeping so hard that her mascara was running, leaving tire marks down her cheeks, as if she had been run over by a pair of small unicycles.
  • Howard's decent, hard-working battlers are best epitomised by the Kerrigan family - decent people trying to survive being run over by corporate greed.
  • Only seven older fillies and mares contested the Eatontown after six entrants scratched from the race, run over a soft turf course.
  • Soon, we'll drop into the canyon, and sadly run over a bullsnake trying to warm itself on the road. Grouse Diary Entry
  • The youngest age at which a horse can run over hurdles is three, for fences it is four.
  • The poor devil was the first person to ever get run over by a train.
  • A series of tests run over the past 24 hours provided conclusive evidence of the poisoning, Zimpfer said.
  • The talks have run over the 15 November deadline.
  • He had already lost one of his nine lives after he was taken to a vet when he was run over by a car.
  • Added to that, guns, machine-guns, rifles, and ammunition, were run over into the plebiscite area, and a mercenary "insurrectionary" army was raised, partly from the local Polish population and partly from Poland proper. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921
  • A binman who died after being run over by his own dustbin wagon might have stepped into a blind spot behind the vehicle, an inquest heard.
  • ‘You are this close to making me run over to the White House and clobbering you,’ she warned.
  • For example, the man was run over between your tea and your dinner and adjacently to a passing barge in the river and the traffic in the Strand. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
  • Brightly quips factitiously, “... what a saving of time and of reason there will be, when, instead of inquiring the past actions and propensities of a man, you have only to run over his head with your fingers and become acquainted with his character at once” (2.3.693). Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillie’s Comedies
  • Run over three nights, the league was keenly contested with the outcome in doubt to the very end.
  • Authorities are also struggling with continuing ethnic tensions, illustrated last month when hundreds of Mongolian students protested in the northern region of Inner Mongolia after a truck driver from the ethnic Han Chinese majority run over and killed a Mongolian herder trying to stop coal convoys crossing pastureland. Chinese Bomb Blast Adds to Unrest
  • The race - which has been run since 1519 - is run over four miles and covers fields, farm tracks and roads.
  • The three-man break went away fairly early in the 60-minute criterium, which was run over a 2 Km course in warm, windy conditions.
  • A boy was run over by a truck and got killed immediately.
  • Docherty said the companies will continue to compete with each other on telecommunications services they run over the joint network.
  • A 2007 Nissan Sentra was traveling west on W.Va. 9 and a 2009 Toyota Yaris traveling eastbound struck it in what police described as a sideswipe manner, causing the Toyota to run over an embankment, rolling onto its side against a tree. The Journal
  • A deep furrow has formed in the rock, where water has run over it for centuries.
  • You could be run over by the car of bad luck tomorrow, and what will it all have been for?
  • I suppose it's the day of reckoning for him as it his first run over fences. The Sun
  • One large boat tried to run over the small dory I was in.
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • And she answered: Son, attemper thy wrath and tarry a little, I have a true servant and a noble fighter against the vices, which shall run over all and vanquish the world, and subdue them under thy signory, and I shall give to them another servant into his help that shall fight as he doth. The Golden Legend, vol. 4
  • When the well is full, it will run over. 
  • Soon a white dog -- a poddle -- will bolt free from the innocent family that is walking it and run over and begin barking, which is so terrible and plays out with so little overt editorializing that approaches the comical. Digital Poetics
  • The man called Coach dogtrots down the high school corridors, his 200 pounds balanced lightly on plastic hips, his eyes pecking at teachers, students, janitors, monitors as if they are tacklers to be run over.
  • Miss Warden, suppose, just to refresh all our memories, you run over the foramina opening into the spheno-maxillary fossa, and the structures passing through them. Archive 2007-07-01
  • The steel toecap will help put in doors and save you when you get your feet run over by a milk float (true story). Kit Freak « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • A boy was run over by a truck and got killed immediately.
  • Abby, with a firm but not unkind grasp, took Shaker Jane and Mary by their little hands and said, "Morning's not the time for play; run over to Sister Martha and help her shell the peas; then there'll be your seams to oversew. Homespun Tales
  • He does this by getting run over and then planning to rob the bank he already did time for. Times, Sunday Times
  • If a kid fell off the merry-go-round the mother or nanny watching them would run over and, if they were bleeding or unconsolable, take them away. Understand, Rubberband?
  • What looked like a cross between a tope and a bull huss looked decidedly unhappy and I had to run over and get a glimpse of the biggest fish I had ever seen taken from the shore.
  • Ya know how Frogger goes "splat" when he gets run over because you're a dolt and misjudged while playing the game? Mum's the Word
  • These bikes uproot heather and, if they run over Iron Age ancient burial mounds, the damage would be irreversible.
  • The pedestrian who had nearly been run over reported the incident to the police.
  • They wouldn't let their cat outside for fear it would get run over.
  • When the well is full, it will run over. 
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • They wouldn't let their cat outside for fear it would get run over.
  • Pave it over and collect the ratables and let the customers run over the kids and the grannies. Too Little, Too Late
  • The last drop makes the cup run over. 
  • When the well is full, it will run over. 
  • I reach behind me and feel my lower back, where it had felt like I'd been run over by a steamroller repeatedly.
  • She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side.
  • CHICO - A man who allegedly tried to run over a Cal Fire-Butte County firefighter at a north Chico station Sunday has been arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon. Local News
  • They wouldn't let their cat outside for fear it would get run over.
  • Dear Karma Bus please run over the man who just attacked me -- physically -- for pointing out that he was parking in a disabled parking space while being perfectly abled. Protest the lifting of Parallel Import Restrictions
  • We try our best to limit our expenditure to the original sum,but we may run over by a few pounds.
  • In August of 1942 a Mexican youth named José Diaz was beaten to death and run over with a car out at the Sleepy Lagoon — a grass-knolled meeting place for gang members in the Williams Ranch area of Central LA. The Big Nowhere
  • The narrator, returning to the box shortly afterwards, finds that the signalman has been run over by a train.
  • He sits in center court to sip his coffee and if he sees the mayor walk past, he can run over to get an autograph.
  • Since the Validation program may take several hours to run, it is recommended that it is run overnight in batch mode.
  • He's methodical and doesn't race irrationally or run over racers to gain position.
  • A couple of years later, power lines were run over Imogene Pass, and the Camp Bird mine was electrified.
  • The performance is so pedestrian it practically gets run over by a goey-filled truckie.
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • It was worth a hundred sovereigns and run over two and a half miles.
  • I'll run over to Short Mountain and check on Mrs Adams.
  • Will you run over to the shop and get some butter?
  • To refresh the sages, the cord must hang about the neck, and the water run over the side of the hand between the thumb and the forefinger, which is bent back. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
  • A deep furrow has formed in the rock, where water has run over it for centuries.
  • Skeeter looked like I'd run over his dog with a swather. Arbitrary Dilettante
  • The last drop makes the cup run over. 
  • Today on the playground one of my friends runs over to one of the other teachers crying (yes he didnt run over to me because I would have told him its no tattling Tuesday and to move on-no I am not mean but the tattling is overwhelming) Anyways he told her that Gigi wont stop digging to China - he was visibly upset by this and is scared. We are digging to China!
  • The last drop makes the cup run over. 
  • There, hired drivers chauffeuring you about the countryside will race through villages at high speed and if they run over someone it´s your fault because had you not hired him he would not have run over the pedestrian. There May be Hope
  • I suppose it's the day of reckoning for him as it his first run over fences. The Sun
  • September 1st, 2009 ALLAHABAD - Six members of a family, including four children, were run over by a train in Sarai Inayat locality of Allahabad early Tuesday, police said. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • Horrified by the thought of seeing grandma take a header down the stairs then get run over by a piano?
  • It can take a while to do this, so you may want to set the defragmenter to run overnight.
  • The course is run over a four week programme involving management and organisational skills.
  • He bumped into people without realising it, walked into walls and was almost run over by Tock in his protective case.
  • Parades run over several weekends, so as not to clash with other parades in neighbouring areas.
  • The village was run over with stray cats, tabbies, longhairs, shorthairs, tomcats, and all other imaginable breeds, even the Casper Cat (known for its lack of whiskers and hair).
  • He told his girlfriend he thought he had run over a box.
  • Finishing off Start the engine and simply run over the blocks as if using a vacuum cleaner.
  • The Shadow Warrior was barreling down fast, he was just about to run over the top of Harry when… BAAAAM!
  • They wouldn't let their cat outside for fear it would get run over.
  • He probably needed that first run over hurdles. The Sun
  • We can not tell the precise moment when friendship is founded, As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over ; so in a serics of kindness there is at last one which makes the heart run over. 
  • I'll just run over what's been said so far, for latecomers who missed the first speakers.

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