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    BBC LEARNING ENGLISH

    9 uses of 'run'
    The Murders in the Rue Morgue

    Mariam
    Hello, I'm Mariam. I hope you don't scare easily because today I've got a story that will
    make your blood run cold. It's a story about murder and intrigue and a detective who has
    to work out who has committed a very serious crime.

    The story is set in Paris in the 19th Century. On a dark and foggy night, a terrifying scream
    echoes around the streets. People nearby hear two voices coming from the apartment
    above. One of them clearly sounds French but the other one is high-pitched and isn't easy
    to understand. Then it goes quiet.

    Quickly, the people run into the house where the noise came from and run up the stairs.
    With a great force they burst into the apartment. What a horrific sight they see; there is
    mess everywhere, there's a woman's body hanging from the chimney and another is on the
    courtyard below with blood running from a cut in her neck and there are two bags of
    money left behind no one has taken them. But strangely, the windows are closed and the
    doors are locked and no one saw anyone run down the stairs as they came up. What a
    mystery.

    The police have never run up against something like this before so it requires the brains of a
    super-sleuth to solve it enter the smart private detective Dupin. He runs through the
    evidence with all the possible scenarios running through his head the strange voice,
    someone very cruel, no means of escape. Then he examines the handprints on the woman's
    body they are large and possibly not human. Could it be some kind of animal an ape
    perhaps? That would explain the strange voice but what about the other human voice that
    was heard?

    Detective Dupin thinks this voice might belong to the owner of the ape who feels he might
    be blamed for the ape's behaviour. Dupin doesn't want to run the risk of losing him so he
    advertises for the owner of a lost ape and manages to track him down and gets him to
    confess what happened on that tragic night.

    The ape's owner, a sailor, explains how one night the ape is playing with his razor, he then
    ran away taking the razor with him. The sailor desperately ran after him but couldn't catch
    him. Attracted by a light in the victim's window, the ape climbed up the building and entered
    through the window. The woman screamed which made the ape panic and cut her throat
    and threw her out of the window. He then turned on the victim's daughter by strangling

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    her. Then he escaped through the window which then shut behind him. The sailor saw all
    this but was traumatised and ran away.

    So clever Detective Dupin has got to the bottom of this murder mystery and what a
    gruesome one it is and I've come to the end of my story. Oh by the way, the ape was
    found and sold to a zoo so we can all sleep safely tonight!

    Well, that's the end of my story. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope it didn't scare you too
    much. And I hope to see you soon.

    Definitions

    make your blood run cold (C2)


    make you feel very scared

    run (A1)
    move fast by taking steps that are much quicker than walking

    running (B2)
    flowing

    run up against (something) (C2)


    start to experience a problem

    runs through (C2)


    thinks about

    running through (his head) (C2)


    thinking about

    run the risk of (C2)


    do something that might cause something bad to happen

    runs away (B2)


    escapes; leaves somewhere quickly and/or secretly

    runs after (B1)


    chases

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    KEY
    A1 = Beginner
    A2 = Elementary
    B1 = Lower Intermediate
    B2 = Higher Intermediate
    C1 = Towards Advanced
    C2 = Advanced

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