Example sentences of "run into one " in BNC.

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1 If they did , they must eventually run into one another .
2 You could admire them from a safe distance , but you would n't want to run into one of them on a dark night at the crossroads .
3 The first can be called the ‘ umbrella sense : ’ unreasonable is used here simply as a synonym for a host of more specific grounds of attack , such as taking account of irrelevant considerations , acting for improper purposes and acting malai fide , which , as Lord Greene M.R. himself said , tend to run into one another .
4 I mean , are they likely to run into one another ?
5 They kept running into one another because they were all staring at the sky .
6 Often the coincidence turns out , on the shortest examination , to be unremarkable : typically , it might consist of two acquaintances from school or university running into one another after a gap of several years .
7 They had stood in front of it , all the girls , dancing : bending , stretching , making small movements of their hands and feet , gestures running into one another , perpetual motion bounded by a gilded frame carved into leaves and fruit and tiny coronets , all blackened now by age and by neglect .
8 But then streets disappeared altogether and there was just a mass of houses running into one another with the occasional alleyway between them .
9 Faced with the problem of induction and related problems , inductivists have run into one difficulty after another in their attempts to construe science as a set of statements that can be established as true or probably true in the light of given evidence .
10 ‘ I ran into one of their forward scouts . ’
11 ‘ Unless she ran into one of those groups … . ’
12 Mrs. Millings was doubly lucky , in that she ran into one such gap , and the approaching vehicle was a police car , with an extremely good driver .
13 What if he runs into one of his students from school ?
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