(1) The road runs parallel with the railway.

(2) The road runs between here and there.

(3) The road runs straight as a die for fifty or so miles.

(4) The road runs parallel to the river.

(5) The road runs parallel to the railway.

(6) The road runs parallel with the sea.

(7) The road runs along a valley.

(8) The road ran beside a railway.

(9) The road runs along the river bank.

(10) The road runs northwards[ ], as straight as a die.

(11) The road runs beside the river.

(12) Take the road running parallel to the main road just after the village.

(13) The road runs for 15 kilometers along the river bank.

(14) The ring road runs around the periphery of the city centre.

(15) The road ran straight across the desert for twenty miles.

(16) Just because a road runs past a group of Bronze Age burial mounds does not mean that it is prehistoric.

(17) The motorbikes clear a way but fans still jump into the road, running behind their favourites and pushing them.

(18) It has several deep canyons incising into its southern flank, and an old road running within a few miles of it.

(19) The road ran along the valley between them, where boulders had settled.

(20) Ringway One was an inner ring road running largely through working-class areas of housing stress.

(21) The New York Road Runner Society kicked off its annual midnight run in Central Park.

(22) I compared those who hadn't noticed this peak to Wile E. Coyote of the "Road Runner" cartoons, who runs off the cliff and finds himself suspended in air before dropping to the valley floor.

(23) Coyote of the "Road Runner" cartoons, who runs off the cliff and finds himself suspended in air before dropping to the valley floor.

(24) We're kind of like Wile E. Coyote plotting a batch of schemes to capture the road runner, only we're trying to catch an entire flock.

(25) Or are we heading for a cliff, or already over the edge and simply unaware, like Wile E. Coyote in those old Road Runner cartoons?