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  • Fehily, who will turn 35 on Christmas Eve and is in his 16th season with a licence, is respected for his skills in the saddle but has hardly ever been associated with a big-name runner.

    Noel Fehily booked for King George Chase ride on favourite Kauto Star Chris Cook 2010

  • Those guys included Billy Volek at quarterback and Michael Turner as the main runner.

    USATODAY.com 2007

  • And then that vendor then would pass that information to another individual known as a runner.

    CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2003 2003

  • So does the agent for whom the man reportedly worked as a "runner."

    Laws On Sports Agents Rarely Enforced 2010

  • Let's not even talk about kids, especially esl kids, not understanding that particular definition of "runner."

    Johnny_Mango Foretells The Future: APS Test Scores Plunge! Parents Ask For Reason. johnny_mango 2005

  • At last he finished his letter and gave it to his "runner."

    Over the Top Arthur Guy Empey 1923

  • And he thrust a quarter into the hand of the astonished "runner."

    The Rope Dance 1916

  • One of the inspectors says the chief evil in this solicitation business is the so-called "runner."

    Aliens or Americans? 1895

  • Fires were literally of nightly occurrence, and that they were invariably by night was due to the incendiary "runner."

    Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • This young man, who was scarcely turned of five-and-twenty, had already obtained a high reputation among the numerous tribes of his nation, as a messenger, or "runner."

    Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper 1820

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