Examples of 'done a runner' in a sentence

Meaning of "done a runner"

done a runner: This colloquial phrase means to suddenly leave or flee a place, especially to avoid a difficult situation or responsibility. It suggests a hasty or swift departure from a location
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  • past participle of do a runner

How to use "done a runner" in a sentence

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done a runner
You should have done a runner years ago.
There is plenty who would have bottled it and done a runner.
Maybe he done a runner down the bunker.
When we come home she would done a runner.
And you done a runner.
Thomas has got a lot of money and seems to have done a runner.
He can not have done a runner already.
All she was to you was a council house slapper who would done a runner.
I thought you would done a runner on me.
I reckoned he would either been nicked or struck gold at this place and done a runner.
She might have done a runner.
Val Kilmer 's done a runner and we have both fallen for it.
She thinks you have done a runner.
I think he 's done a runner and taken the paintings.
Thought you might have done a runner.

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How do we know he has not done a runner with some mistress he 's got stashed away?
My husband seems to have done a runner.
So you done a runner.
I always assumed he would done a runner.
She 's done a runner from a drug rehabilitation unit in the West Country.
I thought you would done a runner.
She 's done a runner before I could chuck her out.
Your contact has done a runner.
Viktor 's done a runner from the embassy.
We fancied you would done a runner.
Looks like he 's done a runner and … there is no car and there is no gold.
So we pulled up and done a runner.
Someone 's done a runner on a body.
We got word from the mainland you would recovered and done a runner from the hospital.
Her dad 's done a runner and she 's making this monster stuff up.
Maeve thought he would done a runner to London.
When the band started packing up I realized he would done a runner.
They have done a runner.
Everyone thought Harry Eldridge had killed him and then done a runner.
Hicks has done a runner.
But he is our best suspect and it looks like he's done a runner.
Piotr has done a runner.
Whatever he might have done, they cut his throat and they have done a runner.
I have not done a runner.
This way, it looked as if Billy killed Katie then done a runner.
Colonel 's already done a runner with the boy.
The police thought Yves Normand had done a runner.
The girl, done a runner.
The social worker said Kenny Mavondo 's done a runner.
But she 's done a runner.
You know, I always thought he might have done a runner.
Apparently your sister 's done a runner from day release.
It 's that other one looks as though the owner 's done a runner.
Looks like she 's done a runner again.
Eddie Phillips … his girlfriend has turned up dead, he 's done a runner.

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