Example sentences of "[vb past] run out [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Besides , the job was done by then — Norwich seemed to run out of ideas and our defence snuffed them out . ’ |
| 2 | She seemed to run out of words . |
| 3 | The completed cross-cut now meant that water needed only to be lifted to the level and allowed to run out to day . |
| 4 | It was then that the Labour campaign began to run out of steam . |
| 5 | the Fordist model began to run out of steam . |
| 6 | Lucy 's tongue began to run out of control . |
| 7 | The whole of the introduction was a solemnly tongue-in-cheek exposition of this notion , though Greg had the impression that later the joke rather ran out of steam ( as the book very nearly did run out of authors to treat ) . |
| 8 | And after running out of ideas against Watson he then appeared to run out of strength and motivation and was actually looking at the canvas instead of into his opponents ' eyes in the seventh round when he was flattened by a thumping left jab . |
| 9 | The northern gate continued to run out of control , gnawing into the heart of the world like a cancer . |
| 10 | Course you had to run out in snow , run out in rain . |
| 11 | His action triggered such a massive response from the Carlist movement that Mola had to ask its leaders not to send any more volunteers for the time being , because the Pamplona garrison had run out of rations . |
| 12 | More camera tips , but I had run out of film and mimed to avoid denting his enthusiasm . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Jay had run out of travelogue and music . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Jane had run out of money . |
| 17 | Mrs Bottomley admitted a rise was likely because the Government had run out of money . |
| 18 | The house wore a permanently uncompleted air as if , sixty years before , the builder had intended it to be part of a pair of semi-detached houses but had run out of money or enthusiasm before he started on the second one . |
| 19 | They had run out of water the day before . |
| 20 | After 12 years in power , the Tories had run out of steam . |
| 21 | The Tories looked as if they had run out of steam and needed to rethink their priorities away from the cares of office . |
| 22 | Certainly , compared to the Rothschild days , it had run out of steam . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Although she had run out of steam and no longer cared whether she lived or died , there was no way she was going to give up . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There are times when you can feel successful when you 've done virtually nothing — I remember when I became a radio actor , and I was pushing my motor bike , which had run out of petrol , up the main street in Cardiff , and I felt that I was a great star , and was very pleased with myself . |
| 27 | But the time the weather improved we had run out of bread again and I tried my hand at making some . |
| 28 | I had made a flask of tea and some sandwiches but had run out of milk at home , so I brought a stoppered bottle along planning to buy some milk in Keld . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 30 | She had run out of choices . |