do a runner BrE informal

I must have looked like someone doing a runner after being caught in bed with another man's wife.

But she was busy watching his feet, waiting for him to do a runner.

Nor do I think that doing a runner would be of the slightest use.

Sounds like your average girl doing a runner to me."

That's why I wondered if he could be frightened enough to do a runner.

I've done a runner on the lot of them.

I needed to be able to jump up and go, without being chased myself for doing a runner.

Or he's got cold feet and done a runner.

"Do you think he might have done a runner?"

"The mother killed her kids and did a runner," said Frost firmly.

Now Cat's done a runner, he sees me as an embarrassment.

There's no point doing a runner at that stage.

Only twice in the first five innings did a runner reach scoring position.

The way we see it, they both did a runner and they've been in hiding ever since.'

They've got what they came for and they're doing a runner, I know it.'

But next year, if it didn't pay your properly, you'd be doing a runner.

'You may be on the level about having done a runner, or maybe not.

The woman thought Polly was a prostitute and that her client had done a runner.

'As long as you promise not to do a runner.

All we have to do is kick it apart and do a runner.

They'd probably been ready to do a runner.

If you want to do a runner, you don't head straight home.

First they let a newly convicted man do a runner from the High Court itself.

'He hit old Fred on the head and did a runner.

"Mostly I've been thinking that he's done a runner, with kidnapping a distant second.