Example sentences of "[vb past] run out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the patents had run out on many ICI fibre Products , so competitors had jumped on the bandwagon and started building plants at a frenzied pace . |
| 2 | The Kievs were shrivelled up like lumps of coke , burst open , and all the garlic , herby butter filling had run out on the tray and burned . |
| 3 | A dear friend ( oh so very dear ) had run out on him . |
| 4 | The young man with the terrible toothache — Harrison — had sought her out and , clumsily but resolutely , he had told her that he intended to leave the quarries , go back to his father 's farm , assess what his prospects were there and then come back and … his resolution had run out at that point but the aim was clear . |
| 5 | Jay had run out of travelogue and music . |
| 6 | After 12 years in power , the Tories had run out of steam . |
| 7 | The measure was taken after the Governor , Mr Dimitris Chalkias , received an SOS from the National Economy Ministry saying the public sector had run out of money to pay civil servants — around 22 percent of Greece 's entire work force are employed by the state . |
| 8 | But he got down in two more , for a bogey five , and then the chasers , Langer and David Graham , found they had run out of puff . |
| 9 | Jane had run out of money . |
| 10 | Trouble was , she had run out of directions . |
| 11 | After two years her owner felt that she had run out of options : Anna was a horse without a future : she could never be a riding horse , nor would she ever breed . |
| 12 | When I had run out of paper , I bowed to the boys and departed . |
| 13 | He told thousands of supporters at a rally in Blackburn , Lancs , that the Conservatives did not deserve to win on their economic record , and had run out of ideas for rescuing the country from recession . |
| 14 | Mr Kinnock told thousands of enthusiastic supporters at a rally in Blackburn , Lancs , that the Conservatives did not deserve to win on their economic record , and had run out of ideas for rescuing the country from recession . |
| 15 | The Tories looked as if they had run out of steam and needed to rethink their priorities away from the cares of office . |
| 16 | Among these was young George Jefferies , who explained why he had run out of the shop in fear , and had only contacted the police on the advice of his friends and mother the following day . |
| 17 | Slatter and his friend , Robert James , had run out of ready cash and had resorted to begging with menaces from the more vulnerable customers . |
| 18 | There was a much-told tale of her Australian infancy that was held to be prophetic in this respect — about how at the age of three she had , by the sheer force of her will , compelled her uncle Walter ( who was taking her for a walk to the local shops at the time ) to put all the money he had on his person into a charity collecting-box in the shape of a plaster-of-Paris boy cripple ; as a result of which the uncle , too embarrassed to admit to this folly and borrow from his relatives , had run out of petrol on the way back to his sheep station . |
| 19 | More camera tips , but I had run out of film and mimed to avoid denting his enthusiasm . |
| 20 | A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition before the raid had finished , which was hardly surprising considering the high rate of fire of the Vickers K guns . |
| 21 | Certainly , compared to the Rothschild days , it had run out of steam . |
| 22 | Mike Powell was handing over to me and in the general melee of the race he had run out of his box and I had run out of my lane , so we were disqualified twice ! |
| 23 | Mike Powell was handing over to me and in the general melee of the race he had run out of his box and I had run out of my lane , so we were disqualified twice ! |
| 24 | ‘ One Sunday I drove around the well-to-do area of Stoke Bishop , and next morning the Post Office had run out of licence stamps . ’ |
| 25 | Her father had run out of the shop and now he was back with two lollipops . |
| 26 | Twice , when he had run out of ideas , he had driven the little Triumph out of the district to a coffee shop where he was not known , and had sat drinking coffee and talking to the men next to him at the counter , surprised to find himself accepted as a member of the grown-up world . |
| 27 | On the way here this morning , the picture of the Carrie he had once known and played with … and loved , had been plain in his mind ; and the nearer he had come to the house where she now lived , he imagined the Carrie he expected to see would be merely an older replica of the one who had run out of his life the day his mother had hit him and knocked him out . |
| 28 | He said he had run out of the cinema . |
| 29 | Mrs Bottomley admitted a rise was likely because the Government had run out of money . |
| 30 | The new image will be a big gamble for the star whose Wogan Show was axed last month because it had run out of steam . |