Sentence examples similar to by run up from inspiring English sources

Bidders responded by running up "Boulangerie" to $1.14 million, almost double the upper end of the estimate.

Since then many countries have been creating an illusion of continual progress by running up hefty debts to finance their welfare states.

Yet squirrels tested in Florida and New England have responded to the knockoff appropriately, with alarm barks of their own or by running up a tree.

Remarkable John Inverdale interview with Tsonga in the build-up – "you frighten a chicken by running up to it and it runs away.

Last November, Hillary Clinton won Virginia by five points, mostly by running up sizable margins in metropolitan hubs across the state and in the northern suburbs.

Bishop has made herself visible on the perks front by running up a travel tab of $456,620 since becoming the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

She coped with isolation by running up a three-thousand-dollar-a-month phone bill and reading everything from potboilers to the pillars of the Western canon.

He barely played his freshman year, but impressed teammates by running up and down hotel steps during road trips to stay in shape.

This morning, youngsters who taunted soldiers by running up to the tanks and armored personnel carriers near the Church of the Nativity were warned off gingerly.

To do that, Mrs. Clinton needs to fulfill her second requirement for victory by running up her winning margins in Kentucky and West Virginia.

Mr Crittenden, who has spent the past seven years at American Express, joins the world's biggest bank amid criticism from shareholders that it has dampened profits by running up expenses.