Sentence examples for were run-up from inspiring English sources

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were run-up

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The approach run of a bowler before delivering the ball

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Also reported are additional experiments, with a local (two-loudspeaker, two-microphone) control system used for a single seat, and with the 16 loudspeaker, 32 microphone control system used to control the noise inside the cabin when the engines were run-up on the ground.

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What would become of us, and our civil liberties, if the same score were run up now?

Since winning the election, the governor has spared no opportunity to mention that the budget problems he inherited were run up during Republican rule.

He was hired by Merrill to steady the ship after huge losses on the credit markets which were run up under the leadership of ousted chief executive Stan O'Neal.

London was said by many to be the "divorce capital of the world for aspiring wives" and huge legal fees were run up just to decide where the case should be heard, he added.

As next week's summit looms, there are also growing questions about whether rich countries will be willing to devote the necessary resources to tackling poverty, with many still struggling to manage the legacy of the heavy public debt burdens that were run up during the global financial crisis.

People were running up the street.

While the doctors were running up, other prisoners tried to stuff the guts back in.

They began to hear calls — two rangers were running up the shadowy trail with flashlights, shouting.

"My baby son was outside and they were running up the street firing at each other.

"Children were running up and down the halls screaming at 6 a.m.," he remembered.

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