Example sentences of "i [verb] run [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was pretty close for a while , but in the last two sets I got run over by a Mack truck , ’ said Navratilova , who told the crowd that next year will probably be her last year of competing on the tour as a singles player . |
| 2 | ‘ By the time I was just 22 , I had run up a clothes debt of nearly £4,000 ’ |
| 3 | Like an actor in a Monty Python sketch , I suddenly fiddled with my fingers as though checking my nails and said , ‘ You 'd better get away , the police are coming ’ — as if I had run up specially to tell him . |
| 4 | When I had run out of paper , I bowed to the boys and departed . |
| 5 | More camera tips , but I had run out of film and mimed to avoid denting his enthusiasm . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | I had run out of ideas ; ideas do n't come as easily as all that . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've run up a few debts myself , you know ! |
| 9 | ‘ I 've run down , Mrs Hellyer . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've run out of sugar . |
| 11 | I 've run out of money . ’ |
| 12 | You often hear managers say that : ' I 've run out of ideas on how to deal with him … ’ or ‘ she could do so much better but I just ca n't seem to make any progress … ’ or ‘ he simply did n't do what I asked … ’ |
| 13 | But I do n't use them unless I 've run out . |
| 14 | The neighbour ( Tony Head ) liked to flirt with half-sentences like ‘ I 've run out of co … ’ , and then let his forehead and eyebrows do the rest of the work . |
| 15 | I 've run out completely . |
| 16 | When I was pregnant many a night I 've run out and slept in passages till the morning . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've run out of money and I 'm trapped with the children and I do n't like it here . |
| 18 | You 'll have to go , I 've run out of words . ’ |
| 19 | Also , I 've run out of mosquito stuff — the really powerful one anyway . |
| 20 | I 've been so chilled all day , made myself cup after cup of coffee and tea , and I 've run out . |
| 21 | I 've run out of pink . ’ |
| 22 | I 've run out of steam . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I think I 've run out of both ideas and time . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've run out of petrol , ’ he explained . |
| 25 | I 've run out of things to say |
| 26 | ‘ What I 've run out of are words that would describe a man like you without — without blistering the paint on these walls ! ’ |
| 27 | I ca n't think of anything except for the biscuits because I 've run out of biscuits . |
| 28 | Yes because I 've run out . |
| 29 | I 've run out of bloody cold sore lotion have n't I ? |
| 30 | I 've run out |