Sentence examples for doing a runner from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Do a runner.

(UK) If people leave a restaurant without paying, they do a runner.

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The series that has had them all talking ends with everyone doing a runner.

Just look at Nancy Cameron (eight) doing a runner in that pub.

We were thinking of doing a runner when he finally chugged up.

Criminal Minds actor Nicholas Brendon was arrested on Monday for trashing his hotel room and doing a runner.

Jules (MyAnna Buring) is determined to collect the stolen money before doing a runner, but will greed be her downfall?

When I joked that his autobiography should be entitled Doing a Runner, he grinned and said, "Too right".

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Who will do a runner?

No one's done a runner.

"He's done a runner!" Allan gasped.

People would do a runner in my dad's restaurant.

Or was it simply that Claire had done a runner?

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