"We are literally running through the list, seeing which actions need to be carried out and what other information is needed," said O'Brien.
A doctor who's running through the list of groceries she needs to pick up on the way home is not actually any busier than one who's concentrating on the task at hand, but she may feel more beleaguered.
Running through the list of Huddersfield alumni over the last quarter-century, you find that hardly anyone who counts for anything in modern music has failed to appear at least once.
But running through the list of the greatest names of Pakistan cricket, note how many of them were of similar blood, some to the point of delusion: Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Fazal, Sarfraz, Waqar, Afridi, Wasim, Javed Miandad, Imran, Shoaib.
Mr. Letterman then included "Mrs. Eliot Spitzer" when running through the list of saints recently canonized by the Catholic Church, and finished with a one-liner, noting that he was surprised to see Mr. Spitzer pursuing a run for city comptroller.
Running through the list of reasons we might sell a stock, we come up dry: –Was our original thesis faulty?
