Van Noten was so nervous about the meeting, he says, "I ran away!"

WSJ: The Insider's Outsider

Jersey is an island - there is nowhere to run to, and I ran away several times, but the reality was there was nowhere to go.

BBC: Haut de la Garenne: Your experiences

They lined us up, no air, no ventilation, if we had to go to the bathroom we had to leave the door open so they can sit there and watch us and I was there for eight weeks straight. 10.10.51 Winston Wilkinson Pretty much when I ran away they sentenced me to go to OP.

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But he really found me, because I wasn't - at that time, my mother - I had ran away from home.

NPR: Etta James: Still Singing Her Song

One young person said they had been afraid that they were going to be rejected by the people looking after them, so ran away because "I wanted to be the person ending it rather than being rejected".

BBC: sad girl

"I found out how much I loved it when the storm ran me away from here, " Avie says.

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And I ran for President because I saw that basic bargain slipping away.

WHITEHOUSE: The White House

"The car ran away from me suddenly, it was about six or seven rollovers and I felt a sharp pain in my neck - I tried to reach for my safety belt but I couldn't, " Williams told BBC Sport in an interview in July.

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