How To Use Run up In A Sentence
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That means telecoms can finally put fiber-optic lines into people's homes, where cables often run up against right angles and tight squeezes from the sidewalk to the house.
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The Jessie swung off under her full staysail, then the foresail, double-reefed, was run up.
Chapter 3
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This task being finally accomplished, the ropes were taken off, the sails run up and the two sloops, closehauled to starboard, set about beating off shore.
The Black Buccaneer
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He was almost last out of traps but hugging the rails enjoyed a dream run up the inside to lead at the turn.
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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.
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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.
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Palin divvied out 57 total endorsements of House, Senate, and governor candidates in the run up to the midterm elections.
Sarah Palin Endorsements Boast Winning Record, Tarnished By Key Losses
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What drives me up the wall is when the uncouth classes begin their fighting and screeching and petty arguments, or when snide little tattletales run up to me to tell on people.
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But here we run up against the difficulty that this formulation appears to derive a prescriptive conclusion from two factual premisses.
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I m still a new runner--and I use the word runner loosely, since I still can t run up all the hills around my house.
Maria Rodale: 10 Secrets for Happy Winter Running
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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.
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Former provincial safety MEC Leonard Ramatlakane is to be "convenor" in the run up to the launch of the party on December 16.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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It's easy to vent populist outrage against public sector bodies that run up big expense claims.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a talented all-rounder, bowling his leg breaks off a very long run up.
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Only the ‘dawgs’ will run up on you rappin', walking backwards in front of you, them wigwagging and yapping like little Collie dogs.
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In terms of using the cash payment as an incentive to kick a drugs habit, you'd run up against the problem that some druggies would milk the system as long as possible to finance the drug habit.
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The abbey is expecting to run up a deficit of £10,000 this financial year, according to the parochial church council.
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It's easy to vent populist outrage against public sector bodies that run up big expense claims.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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run up a skirt
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In the run up to special occasions, I always buy a large Stilton and stand it on a dish in the fridge.
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Guns were run up close to the parapet, and double charges of canister played their part in the bloody work.
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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.
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Joaquin hesitated on his run up to the ball and then watch his weak kick saved easily by Korean goalkeeper Lee Woon Jae.
World Cup Soccer - South Korea vs. Spain
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It is characterised by stenoses (narrowing) of the internal jugular vein (which runs down the side of the neck) and/or the azygous veins (which run up the side of the vertebrae).
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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In the run up to the recent publication of its results, the bank was precluded from buying shares under stock exchange rules.
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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.
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She was ill during hustings and had to send a proxy to make speeches on her behalf in the run up to polling day.
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The important thing to note is that these criticisms run up against the source of religious belief in the ignorance which induces men to believe the world to be governed providentially, that is, by God's purposes and for man's benefit.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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The prices of fruit generally run up during the winter months.
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I'm still a new runner--and I use the word runner loosely, since I still can't run up all the hills around my house.
Maria Rodale: 10 Secrets for Happy Winter Running
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The practice of allowing MPs to run up tabs may also be examined.
Times, Sunday Times
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Using a smartphone to access the internet abroad can quickly run up large bills unless you are connecting to a free wireless network.
Times, Sunday Times
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If they start to see prices run up, they might throw in the towel.
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We run up our national flag every morning.
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Setting a blistering pace on the run up Honey Rose scorched around the opening turns to set herself up nicely for victory.
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The community centre scheme has run up against strong local opposition.
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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.
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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.
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The company has run up a deficit of ￡30 000.
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Julie again felt a shiver run up her spine.
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I admit I am a fitness freak - back home in the UK, I row, run up mountains and do the triathlon, as well as paying my gym subscription and actually going!
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With his fellow skipper's famous bareheadedness ravaging his enterprise, Webb had Cavanagh run up two fine custom hats and hurried to the White House to give one to the President and one to Kennedy's long-time friend, a businessman named Red Fay.
Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com
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Ragged children run up to approaching cars with delight because motorized vehicles are a rare sight.
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He had run up credit card debts of thousands of dollars.
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In spite, however, of all the marauding, some terrible scores had to be run up with the "frier" of the Rue de la Grand Truanderie.
The Fat and the Thin
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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.
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And for perhaps a minute there was one of the scaliest silences I've ever run up against.
My Man Jeeves
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Credit markets are rallying, as are equity and rates markets, but all of them were very bearishly positioned and have been squeezed in the run up to the summit," said Hans Peter Lorenzen , credit strategist at Citigroup.
European Debt Default Costs Ease
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It is not unusual for manic patients to run up large debts, or follow a course of action that later causes them intense embarrassment, or discomfort, when they have fully recovered.
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Typically, Harrington took his punishment on the chin but was struggling to maintain this sort of impressive equilibrium when he hooked his drive into woods off the 2nd tee yesterday and then played pinball with the same tree twice to eventually run up a nine, just one shot short of the Masters "eejit" record on this par five.
The Guardian World News
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It is important to remember that every Defense dollar spent to overinsure against a remote or diminishing risk or, in effect, to run up the score in capability where the United States is already dominant is a dollar not available to take care of our people, reset the force, win the wars we are in, and improve capabilities in areas where we are underinvested and potentially vulnerable.
Paranoid | ATTACKERMAN
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You put a box in here, the apples run up a roller and this machine only sorts, it doesn't wash.
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She felt a shiver run up her spine as she closed the door behind her.
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(*) (*) There is a pun in the French on the two meanings of the verb _hausser_, -- "to raise" and to "augment" or "run up.
Cent nouvelles nouvelles
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I furiously brushed my hair smooth after my run up to my room.
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At several bends in the road, hungry dogs run up to the bus, yapping loudly.
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BBC Radio Five Live's General Election coverage in the run up to the poll on 5 May will for the first time include key simulcasts with the BBC Asian Network and BBC 1Xtra.
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He had run up credit card debts of thousands of dollars.
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It's easy to vent populist outrage against public sector bodies that run up big expense claims.
Times, Sunday Times
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Triks managed to run up and goose her just as the photo was being taken.
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They can potentially tap into your bank account or run up debts without you knowing a thing about it.
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Directly afterwards he began to run up and down, playing through some exercise with which he was familiar extremely softly; and then by way of a change he began what is technically known as "double-tonguing.
A Dash from Diamond City
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Two men who had run up the stairs behind me stared in disbelief and shouted to the driver to open the doors.
Times, Sunday Times
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It constipates and run up all in you and locks your bowels up.
The Truth About "Nut Brackets" by Alexyss K. Tylor
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Labour posters dubbed the caped figure of Lamont - now a Conservative peer - "Vatman" as the Tories slumped badly in the opinion polls, a position from which they failed to recover in the run up to the 1997 general election.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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I was ready to run up the koppie and grab him and his brother Brutus by the tail and drag them down to visit me.
Animal Planet: The Purest Thing I Have Ever Experienced
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The breeches and jackets are being run up in a house in Cheltenham.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even so, you'veprobably also run up against people who love your idealism, but warn you tolower your sights, to scale back your ambitions a bit, to settle for somethingless.
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He discovered she had plundered his bank accounts, taken a second mortgage on his home and run up thousands in debt on credit cards in his name.
The Sun
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Don't run upstairs alone; consider the butler's feelings!" called her unfeeling spouse after her.
Pirate Gold
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The guy waited till he had served me the drinks, told me it was fine to run up a tab, took my credit card, and then told me that the kitchen wasn't opening for another forty minutes.
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Kids buy a bagfull and run up and down the Jardin bopping everyone and anyone on the head with the eggs, leaving confetti and eggshells streaming down their faces and backs, and then racing away from retaliation.
The weekend before Lent starts--eggs away!
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Each firefighter — wearing 50 pounds of gear, including an air pack — starts with an additional 45-pound hose pack (sometimes called an "apartment pack" or "hotel pack," a set of preconnected hoses used to fight fires in multistory hotels and apartments) on his shoulder and has to run up 63 steps to the top of a five-story tower.
Grace Under Fire
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Sly is now 68 so location scouts will be looking for a smaller set of steps for the one-time heavyweight champ to run up.
The Sun
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They've run up a British flag on the roof.
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KING: Congress is about to pass an increase in the federal debt celling, the amount that government is allowed to borrow and run up into debt.
CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2009
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Run up two dozen stairs or more without being breathless at the top.
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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.
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It's easy to vent populist outrage against public sector bodies that run up big expense claims.
Times, Sunday Times
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He showered and climbed into an ill-fitting suit which a Sunni tailor had run up for him in forty-eight hours.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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The stock appears to be a good bet in the space, but near-term upsides look limited as the stock has already run up quite a bit.
Analysis
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Run up with a controlled power motion, focusing on short, quick strides and using your arms to drive yourself up.
Times, Sunday Times
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The phantom franger dumper has been at it again - my regular rubbish run up and down the street netted a sixth condom this week.
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A mother is urging parents to beware of thieves selling stolen bikes in the run up to Christmas.
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Theories of value that focus on curbing desire run up against the demand for self-realisation, which is one of the strongest impulses in modern life.
2010 May 17 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS
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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.
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It means he could even run up against his old partner Simon Archer, the Olympic bronze and Commonwealth gold medal winner at mixed doubles.
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In fact the recent run up in the share price, bore no resemblance to actual performance by the company in the latest half, except that investors were punting on a huge capital return instead of that bid.
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That despite the obduracy of male politicians with regard to the Women's Bill in Parliament, more women are visible in the political spectrum and in the run up to the forthcoming general elections.
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‘We just need to conserve the water resources, because if we don't, sooner or later we will run up against a capacity problem,’ he said.
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The engines were run up to 2500 rpm with the yokes held hard back and both men clinging to the bucking columns.
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She was reluctant to leave but headed off into the darkness, reins fastened to the saddle and stirrups run up the leathers.
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Feinstein is another intrenched, corrupt politician who helped us run up the deficit and damage our economy.
Feinstein suggests full Senate could consider Kagan by Aug. 1
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We run up our national flag every morning.
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Seven more bald-headed vatos run up to see what's going on.
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Two men who had run up the stairs behind me stared in disbelief and shouted to the driver to open the doors.
Times, Sunday Times
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White drill and other cotton materials were available for men's shorts and shirts, and African tailors would quickly run up any required clothes on their hand or treadle sewing machines.
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In terms of using the cash payment as an incentive to kick a drugs habit, you'd run up against the problem that some druggies would milk the system as long as possible to finance the drug habit.
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Dee let his gaze run up and down her body, assessingly but without lubricity, and said, `Of course.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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I'm worried about the -- what I call frivolous lawsuits that make it hard for docs to practice medicine and run up the cost of medicine.
CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2003
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They've run up a British flag on the roof.
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He burst forward on a powerful run up the left, played a one-two with Spencer, sped on and crossed low across the goal.
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Although he finds his career path stuck in a cul-de-sac, his fiery style of populist politics gives him the capacity to affect the direction of events in the run up to the general election.
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Racers across Chippenham are busy practising their flipping skills this week in the run up to the town's annual pancake showdown on Tuesday.
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Run upstairs and get a pillow.
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Sly is now 68 so location scouts will be looking for a smaller set of steps for the one-time heavyweight champ to run up.
The Sun
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I felt a shiver run up my spine as our shoulders touched, and I moved away from him slightly.
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So, you reckon they'll make us run up those or ski down them?
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The practice of allowing MPs to run up tabs may also be examined.
Times, Sunday Times
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He discovered she had plundered his bank accounts, taken a second mortgage on his home and run up thousands in debt on credit cards in his name.
The Sun
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She was very glad they were good to-night, because, as "missis" was away, she had made up her mind to go to a party herself, the house-maid having promised to run up to the nursery if she heard the children calling.
Harper's Young People, November 4, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly
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It's all drummy and swoony and Arabian-guitary, and she's singing in Persian, and it maketh the tingles run up and down the spine.
Life, She Goes On
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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.
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Run up hills or use a stair-stepper for cardio to maximise shaping.
The Sun
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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.
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Obama's proposal will run up against the congressional calendar as well as election-year politics.
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Live fireworks have been thrown into phone boxes, postboxes and even into a residential letterbox vandals in the run up to bonfire night
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Run upstairs and get a pillow.
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Arriving at an estuary at low water allows the opportunity to recce the channels carved in the mud by the freshwater runoff, so a bait dropped into these channels when the flounder begin to run up with the tide is very likely to find the fish.
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The inexorable logic of expanding car ownership and use has gradually run up against the limits of road-building and the huge hidden subsidy to the auto industry which that represents.
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So I quickly run up stairs and slip on my pink mini, pleated skirt, and my tank top and run down stairs.
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On pensions, the Democrat proposes sticking to the status quo, but making sure that this generation puts enough aside for its retirement and does not run up bills its sons and daughters cannot pay.
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For many years he was a compulsive gambler, and a very unsuccessful one at that, and while there is no evidence that his life was overly blighted by the addiction, he did run up fairly substantial debts to several bookmakers in Glasgow.
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Cutthroat trout of Pacific Creek are nonmigratory stream fish and the cutthroat of Atlantic Creek are migratory fish from Yellowstone Lake that run up to spawn in its headwaters and no farther.
Trout and Salmon of North America
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But he had the foresight to drop the bunch of matches into his wide-mouthed outside pocket before he slipped on his mittens in despair, and started to run up the trail.
First Version of To Build A Fire
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We are -delighted- postop when they run up and down the hall and try to break the furniture.
Firedoglake » Oh Happy Day
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The council has run up huge and unrecoverable debts.
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The media anchorpeople will run up to you and ask groundbreaking questions such as ‘do you know anything new about the status of your child?’
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He discovered she had plundered his bank accounts, taken a second mortgage on his home and run up thousands in debt on credit cards in his name.
The Sun
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They first pass backward and medialward toward the rhomboid fossa, and, reaching the posterior end of the nucleus of the abducent nerve, run upward close to the middle line beneath the colliculus fasciculus.
IX. Neurology. 5g. The Facial Nerve
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The white flag was run up;the post had surrendered.
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Promptly followed the dingy train's short run up the shore of the New Canal, and then its stop athwart St. Charles St.eet, under no roof, amid no throng, without one huzza or cry of welcome, and the prompt dispersal of the outwardly burdenless wanderers, in small knots afoot, up-town, down-town, many of them trying to say over again those last words from the chief hero of their four years 'trial by fire.
Kincaid's Battery
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Sly is now 68 so location scouts will be looking for a smaller set of steps for the one-time heavyweight champ to run up.
The Sun
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In the run up to Christmas, the company stockpiled toys and electronics - so that it could meet demand.
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Gregory felt a chill run up his spine at the wistful, dreamy tone of her voice.
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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.
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Palin divvied out 61 total endorsements of House, Senate, and governor candidates in the run up to the midterm elections.
Sarah Palin Endorsements Boast Winning Record, Tarnished By Key Losses
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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.
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When the grunion “run” they seemingly run up the beach on their tails, lay their eggs, and then flop back down to the water to ride a wave out to sea.
Full Frontal Nudity
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Might run up a randomizer/multicolumn script a la technical buzzword excuse generator if I have a large enough data set.
SF buzzword/excuse/action generator
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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.
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exclaimed Trish, and began to run up the hill, pausing only to call over her shoulder, `Don't forget the blackout !
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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In his defence, it could be argued that a party leader ought to run up bigger expenses than his minions.
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The Air Force has invited students to accrue the benefits from the career opportunities exhibition as a run up to the recruitment rally.
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Consumers were bombarded with mailshots offering new credit card deals, advertisements for credit and promotions to encourage young people to run up overdrafts and take out loans and mortgages.
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When he had run up the hill, he paused for a minute to rest.
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The museum has run up against opposition to its proposals.
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Two spacious aisles run up each side of the nave, separated by clustered columns supporting pointed arches, the front row being surmounted by a narrow mullioned triforium and a lofty clerestory, both lighted by beautifully-painted glass windows.
The South of France—East Half
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The whole gecko is evolved to move in exactly the right way to use these forces to run up walls at high speed.
10/30/07: Voom
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The standard rose - the centrepiece of the garden - was ripped up in the attack during the run up to Christmas.
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As for animal foods, it's only common sense to me now that I wouldn't run up to a cow and try to take a bite out of its hide; nor would I bend down, shove its calf aside, and try to suckle its teats.
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A dancer attempts to run up the slope, but repeatedly slips down, to the point of tedium.
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I just need to run upstairs and put my face on.
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A particularly egregious incident of bullyragging the wild animals that we saw during this trip to Yellowstone involved someone using their vehicle to try to force a bear to run up a tree.
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exclaimed Trish, and began to run up the hill, pausing only to call over her shoulder, `Don't forget the blackout !
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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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.
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And there's a canny little visual push-pull about the way the picture invites the eye to run up from the miniature figures at the bottom through the landscape they must traverse to the mountains at the top, at the same time that the words of the title invite the eye to work their way down from 'The' to 'Rings'.
Vintage LotR Cover Art
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I used to wear just shorts and shirt in the bush and needed to get a linen suit run up for tonight.
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The word triggered an immediate avalanche of complaints and abuse from Argentinians, reflecting heightened sensitivity towards the archipelago in the run up to the 30th anniversary of the war with Britain.
Falkland Islands newspaper calls Cristina Fernández de Kirchner a bitch
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The white flag was run up;the post had surrendered.
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As they turn around they see a goat come crashing through the brush, run up to the hole with no hesitation, and jump in headfirst.
The Two Hunters « You Got to be Kidding's Blog
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A London media wag, bemused by the pace of life in Scarborough, had quipped in the run up to the game that the town did not so much have cup fever as a sore throat and runny nose.
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I smile at them brightly, a shadow of the girl they always wanted, and run up the stairs, excusing myself from the table.
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She walked for about a quarter of a mile and then suddenly broke into an oblique run up the soft part of the beach.
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He trimmed the flight feathers to various lengths, and made them run up slopes of different slopes and textures.
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Trying to legislate a policy for something that doesn't yet exist would run up against all sorts of problems.
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But I could never shake the fear/phobia they were going to run up my pant leg and sink their ferrety foreteeth into whatever they found up there that looked like a bag of food.
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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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For all you know, the sky there is red all the livelong day, and up is down, and all the rivers run upstream.
LOST BOY LOST GIRL
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It is important to remember that every defense dollar spent to overinsure against a remote or diminishing risk, or in effect to run up the score" is a dollar that might otherwise be spent on troops or winning the wars we are in, Gates said yesterday.
Top Stories - Google News
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The site will be kept updated with the latest squad news in the run up to the opening ceremony, with photo galleries of the British squads and 'bluffer's guides' for every sport.
Horse & Hound Online news
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He discovered she had plundered his bank accounts, taken a second mortgage on his home and run up thousands in debt on credit cards in his name.
The Sun
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In her prime, she used to run up and down the aisles of her Chicago church whipping the congregation into a frenzy.
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Using a smartphone to access the internet abroad can quickly run up large bills unless you are connecting to a free wireless network.
Times, Sunday Times
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Icelanders are brought up to leap across waterfalls, spring through rivers, run down mountains, run up mountains.
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Our local “chippie” will run up the closest rainspout if you startle her and make this adorable highpitched squeaky chirp until you leave.
LOVE - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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We will encounter the second obstacle to a smooth transition to democracy in the period between nominations and the run up to elections.
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Drugs raid ... police seize ecstacy tablets in run up to warehouse party.
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My bike ride ended up being a bit too long and I had to run up to the hostel, grab my bag and run to the bus station to catch the bus to Kranj where I could catch another bus to Skofja Loka.
TravelPod.com Recent Updates
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This week, in the run up to Hallowe'en, she will be donning a witch's hat and a hooked nose.
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Yet the new products can run up against longtime habits and even cultural concepts of cleanliness.
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The zigzag faggoting and row of holes on the outside are easy enough, as are the patterns that run up the straight side.
Archive 2009-04-01
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He wundered on; he stop by de bridge whar de water wuz tricklin 'down below -- he see de picture uv hi'sel' in de water, en 'hit meck de cole chills run up hi' back.
Shawn of Skarrow
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We used to go watch the grunion run up on the beach and flop around in the moonlight by the thousands.
Go Name Yourself
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It was only matchboard, she decided, run up to make many little rooms of one large one.
The Voyage Out
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President Obama's ambitious plan to begin phasing out nuclear weapons has run up against powerful resistance from officials in the Pentagon and other U.S. agencies, posing a threat to one of his most important foreign policy initiatives.
POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: January 4, 2010
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Fluid took up air space ... you never saw anyone with emphysema run upstairs.
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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.
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If that guy had actually run up my ass and killed me dead he would have not only not been punished for his miscreance but he would have been back behind the wheel within a week while I fed the worms from my new vantage point six feet under.
On Life and Death and Ego
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Obama's campaign had the foresight to run up the delegate count in the organizable caucus states, betting on the fact that Clinton would not compete there.
Archive 2008-03-01
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When he had run up the hill, he paused for a minute to rest.
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He had run up credit card debts of thousands of dollars.
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Our drill instructors will punch you in the throat if your shoe is untied, then you will have to run up a mountain with two sacks full of scalding hot sauna rocks tied to your bare chest.
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The breeches and jackets are being run up in a house in Cheltenham.
Times, Sunday Times
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After enduring our competitive group members on the Inca Trek I really hadn't wanted to make the climb with anyone else or feel pressured into having to run up the mountain, but in the queue we met a lone Swiss girl called Anu and decided to make the trek with her.
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Cohen, 55, has run up a voting record that hewed toward the center of most of the major interest-group indexes.
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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.
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Melbury and his daughter drew near their house, having seen but one living thing on their way, a squirrel, which did not run up its tree, but, dropping the sweet chestnut which it carried, cried chut-chut-chut, and stamped with its hind legs on the ground.
The Woodlanders
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No longer did the squirrel run up spruce trees, leap from branch to branch, or cling chattering to giddy perches.
Chapter VIII