Sentence examples for preliminary run from inspiring English sources

Uncharacteristically, she slipped a few yards from the starting hut on her first preliminary run.

Chloé, after her preliminary run ("It wasn't that good, but she made her show," Dorion told me), was in ninth.

One night in October, when "Dinner With Friends" had a preliminary run in Stamford, Alan Arkin, who lives in Weston, was in the audience.

We had thought about giving him a preliminary run over hurdles to blow the cobwebs away, but in the end decided not to risk it.

The goal of the preliminary run was to tweak the game to make it more competitive, with an eye toward providing a template for others outside the class to design their own versions of the game.

The death of Georgian luge driver Nodar Kumaritashvili during a preliminary run caused Olympic organizers to shorten the runs by changing the starting locations of all luge events; men's doubles and women's singles events started at the junior push-off site.

After manual evaluation of a preliminary test run, we determined a P-value cut-off level of 0.005 (data not shown).

Austin Healey, for example, had a preliminary run-out last weekend, Henry Paul was once again the star of the show in England's latest success at the Hong Kong Sevens on Sunday, and Iain Balshaw is within three weeks of his return.

Tickets from £20 for the preliminary runs and finals.

As I write (on a BlackBerry…) I am standing at the bottom of the mogul skiing course, up at Cypress Mountain, awaiting the women's preliminary runs, hoping the fog doesn't descend from the peaks above to scuttle the race.

For instance, "I'm going to B" positions one as being in the very preliminary run-up phases of an action; when one says, "I'm going to B because I'm Aing," one is giving a naive rationalization, but one which registers that the Bing phase of Aing has not yet arrived, even though the reason for the former is that it is part of the latter.