Example sentences of "runs out " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be damp enough to hold together when squeezed in the hand , but not so wet that water still runs out through the fingers . |
| 2 | ( A slot meter may not be practical , for example , with a gas central heating boiler which goes out every time the money runs out and needs to be re-lit when more money is put in the meter . |
| 3 | Those on the list are : Mr Sisulu , sentenced with Mr Mandela to life imprisonment in the ‘ Rivonia Trial ’ of 1964 ; four other Rivonia triallists - Raymond Mhlaba , Elias Motsoaledi , Andrew Mlangeni , Ahmed Kathrada , Wilton Mkwayi and the oldest of them all , 80-year-old Oscar Mpheta , a trade union leader who has been behind bars since 1980 , and whose whose sentence runs out next year . |
| 4 | Next month the present two-year deal runs out . |
| 5 | The roly-poly goalie makes heads turn on away grounds when he runs out , and some of his diving stops have been measured on the Richter Scale , but his performances invariably win respect from opponents and spectators . |
| 6 | When she emerged , Rosa Luxemburg Platz was full of police , with lorries and water-cannon , who cordoned off the broad cobbled street that runs out of the town centre to the church . |
| 7 | If the Regency Life bond runs out , the next best rate is available from Aetna ( Tel : 01-837 6494 ) which also has a one-year fixed rate bond paying between 11.6 per cent net of basic rate tax to 12.10 per cent for investments betweeen £5,000 and £1m plus . |
| 8 | In this passage , as in the Kipling story , food runs out and three ghosts haunt the seamen . |
| 9 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 10 | • BMW Chairman Eberhard von Kuenheim squashed reports that the BMW-McLaren link might lead the company back to F1 racing when McLaren 's contract with Honda runs out . |
| 11 | I usually make her coffee , and if she runs out of fags or needs summat from the shops , I go for her . |
| 12 | This is how the record companies want it , because if one act inexplicably runs out of steam it 's no problem to find another . |
| 13 | ‘ When my patience runs out with all the mediation and when I exhaust my capabilities I will issue a statement to all Lebanese and apologise . |
| 14 | ‘ When my patience runs out with all the mediation and when I exhaust my capabilities I will issue a statement to all Lebanese and apologise . |
| 15 | When a dolphin becomes trapped in a net , it drowns because it is unable to get back to the surface to refill its lungs when the supply of air runs out . |
| 16 | Half way through the feast the wine runs out . |
| 17 | The father sees the son coming home after all the bingeing — the wine , women and song — and runs out with love and says : ‘ How good it is to have you home ! |
| 18 | Her meagre supply of water runs out , and she puts Ishmael in the shade of a bush to die . |
| 19 | What 's going to fuel our tractors when the oil runs out ? |
| 20 | I had wanted to regain the weight in a controlled , steady way , but instead I find myself stuffing wildly ( mostly when I 'm babysitting ) : biscuits , chocolate , great hunks of cheese , cakes , pasties ; and I 'm feeling more and more anxious as the food runs out — I end up eating dog biscuits , and frozen cakes and Angel Delight powder and raw jelly and dry cereal . |
| 21 | ADRIAN DAVIES , the Welsh international rugby union outside-half , runs out with the Cambridge University soccer side to take on Oxford at Fulham this morning with the roar of Twickenham fresh in his memory . |
| 22 | If the dog runs out of control , the fine can be unlimited and there is provision for a maximum two years ' imprisonment . |
| 23 | This is one aspect organisers hope to change if it continues beyond 1993 , when the five-year guarantee of public funds runs out . |
| 24 | As you will see in the final reading from Gowie Corby Plays Chicken nobody w ill put up with Gowie 's cruel jokes for ever and it 's not long before people 's patience with him runs out . |
| 25 | It runs out of steam at 60 , which takes an awful long time to achieve and the first hint of a hill its down the box to third . |
| 26 | The iron melts , picking up the correct amount of carbon from the coke , and runs out of the tap-hole at the bottom . ’ |
| 27 | A lockable fuel cap stops thieves stealing your petrol and also forces the casual thief to abandon your car when it runs out of fuel . |
| 28 | If yurt accommodation runs out , then there are the chalets . |
| 29 | These are the shellfish of legend , capable of snapping shut on a diver 's unwary foot , holding on until his air runs out . |
| 30 | Before the 10-year guarantee runs out therefore , a structural engineer should be asked to survey the house and to inspect the cavities with an endoscope which has a zoom eye-piece and a powerful light source in the tip . |