Sentence examples for set a hare running from inspiring English sources

He could possibly have said: "I am not going to tell you now the make-up of my cabinet", but that would have set a hare running for the whole of the election campaign.

"I don't want to start a hare running on this, other than we are going to take a closer look".

And suddenly a hare ran across the road.

But a hare ran across our path and an owl swooped down a few feet away.

Kidd set the hare running 18 months ago with the idea of a literature prize and its viability has always been about finding a willing sponsor.

A campaign group was set up called The Hares, after the Tory peer Lord Trefgarne said that changing the rules on succession to the crown would "set the hare running" on whether all inherited titles should be gender-neutral.

The Fifa president set one hare running by saying on Monday it was "fairly urgent" to get on with the bidding process for the 2026 World Cup, for which the United States is the favourite.

The court action is the first to surface since JJB executives set the hare running in 2009, calling in the Office of Fair Trading – in exchange for immunity – to investigate the possibility that it had fixed prices with rival Sports Direct, the sportswear firm run by Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley, when Ronnie was at the helm.

I had to think long and hard when asked to join the Hares – so named because the very same Trefgarne grumbled that the Succession to the Crown Act would inevitably "set the hares running" in the peerage.

Graves set the hares running on Pietersen's possible return to the England fold in March when he said that selectors could not ignore him if he returned to county cricket and scored lots of runs.

Woodward and his fellow Watergate reporter, Carl Bernstein, refused to reveal his name, having set the hares running in 1974 when they published their book, All the President's Men, which was later filmed.