Run across somebody/something
- find someone/something or meet somebody by chance
Guess who I ran across this morning! Vicky Richards!
Run after someone
- pay excessive attention to somebody
- serve sb's needs
He's always running after the girls under 20 years of age.
My boss likes people running after him all the time.
Run away with someone
- (imagination, temper, feelings etc.) take control of someone
Now you're letting your imagination run away with you. The situation wasn't all that dangerous.
Run away with something
- use up/consume a lot of something (e.g. money, petrol, electricity)
I'm afraid the research programme is running away with the government loan.
Run someone down/over
- (a vehicle) knock to the ground and injure sb
- speak badly of someone; criticize someone
My son was almost run down by a van this morning.
I wish he wouldn't run his sister down the way he does. I think he's jealous.
Run someone in
- arrest someone; take someone to the police-station
The police have run Chris in again for drunk driving.
Run something in
- (a new vehicle, engine, machine) drive carefully to prepare for full use
If you take care to run the engine in properly, the car will serve you for years.
Run something off
- produce written material quickly
- print, photocopy, duplicate
She's a remarkable writer. She can run off a novel in a week!
The minutes for last week's meeting are finished, but I still have to run them off.
Run out
- expire, terminate
- come to an end, be used up
The contract runs out at the end of the year and will have to be renewed.
We had just reached the motorway when the petrol ran out.
Run out of something
- use something up; have no more of something
We've run out of milk. You'll have to drink your tea without.
Run over something
- practise/rehearse something
I'll just run over my speech again. I'd hate to forget it in the middle.
Run through something
- rehearse
- read something quickly
- use up
He ran through his lecture in his mind.
Just run through this article and tell me what you think of it, will you?
We run through about 100 liters of petrol a week.
Run to something
- amount to something; reach something
- provide money for something; be sufficient for someting
The book runs to about three hundred pages.
My salary doesn't run to buying a new suit every week!
Run something up
- make/sew something quickly
- accumulate something
I'm going to run some costumes up for the children's fancy-dress party.
She runs up bills everywhere in town.
Run up against something / something
- be confronted with someone/something; encounter someone/something
Could you help me with this computer programme? I've run up against a few problems.