Study the phrasal verbs. Lead-in.
The bride has just run away/ off.
On her way she has run into a young man.
Picture 1:
The man has been run down by a car.
Picture 2:
The man has been run over by a car.
Kevin is experiencing some difficulties.
He has run out of food.
The milk has run out.
He has run up some bills.
More phrasal verbs with RUN …
| run across | find sth or meet sb by chance: You know what? I ran across Mike yesterday! He’d changed a lot. |
| run after | chase sb, pursue: Dogs run after cats. |
| try to have a relationship with sb: Ken is almost 70 but keeps running after young women. | |
| run away | (~with sb) leave a place or a person to have a relationship with sb else: She’d run away with her colleague two days before her wedding with Sam. |
| (~from sth) avoid sth: You just can’t run away from all your problems – you must try and solve them. | |
| run down | hit sb with a vehicle knocking them to the ground: Harry was run down by a lorry yesterday morning. |
| criticize severely: At school she was often run down by her classmates. | |
| run into | (sb): meet sb accidentally: I didn’t expect to run into Mary in Nice. |
| (sth): experience sth negative: They ran into a problem last week, but fortunately they managed to settle it down immediately. | |
| run off | (=run away) leave a place or a person quickly: Don’t you even think about running off! |
| (~with sth) steal sth and run away with it: The robbers managed to run off with all the gold from the safe. | |
| (~with sb) = run away with sb: Mark decided to run off with Kitty as | |
| (of liquids) go over the sides of a container: Look! The milk is running off. | |
| make a copy of sth using a photocopier: Could you please do me a favour and run off 5 copies of this programme? | |
| run out | sth finishes or is finished: The coffee has run out. |
| sth becomes invalid or expires: The guarantee ran out last Tuesday. | |
| run out of | finish sth so you no longer have it: We have run out of coffee, could you buy some? |
| run over | practise a speech or a performance quickly: Let’s run over the script to make sure we remember the details. |
| (=run off) go over the sides of a container, usu. about liquids: Look! The bath is running over, turn off the tap. | |
| knock sb down using a vehicle and go over the body: A dog was run over by a bike in front my house. | |
| run through | practise sth to perform better: The boys ran through the phrasal verbs before the test once again. |
| appear, be felt: The feeling of jealousy ran through her colleagues. | |
| run up | accumulate or collect sth: Jerry ran up so many bills that he couldn’t pay them, so the company cut off the electricity. |
| sew sth quickly: I asked my mum to run up the curtains and hang them in the living room. | |
| run up against | face, encounter, experience: The builders ran up against some difficulties laying the concrete foundations of the skyscraper. |