(1) Your bike will run better if you oil it.
(2) Good painter, maybe. Good runner, good reader, you bet.
(3) Actually, they ran better than they passed, although they passed spectacularly on occasion.
(4) Funny thing is the whole place seems to run better her way, so I let her get on with it.
(5) That day I made a vow to myself that I would return to Athens and run better.
(6) They are loading the run goods into the hold.