Example sentences of "run out of [noun] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the present situation , the officers find themselves in a very difficult position , I can not imagine an officer saying no to a member and this is what has happened if we run out of money , then the very thing that we are seeking to do , in other words to implement the democratic process to allow people to come to meetings and speak will go by the way , and I can remember some time ago when I was a new member on here saying I would be prepared to attend property sub-committee briefings as a deputy and not be paid and I was very smartly brought up by a friend in the labour group who said that 's all right for you , you can afford it , but it 's not alright for some of us 'cause we can't. and the difficulty is if we run out of money and we either have to stop the allowances or we have to slash the allowances , yeah , knows who it was , we have to slash the allowances , then legitimately people will be able to say that the democratic process is being stifled because they are not going to be allowed to go to meetings , and therefore , I think that situations whereby a member attends to speak to a , an item , a specific item and then stays on for a double length meetings and claims double length allowances that sort of thing has got to be stopped , and also members attending just to nod approval at something that has happened that they 've been associated with , that should stop , if they want to come they should come at their own expense . |
| 2 | The usual pattern is that you take several fish one after the other , and then nothing for perhaps an hour , then several more fish in quick succession , and so on , until either you run out of bait or you have caught the whole shoal . |
| 3 | Er , but if we run out of time and I find we have n't we we we ca n't fit it all in I 'd like you all to attempt to do this for yourselves after er , the lecture is over . |
| 4 | Presumably they 're afraid it will run out of money before it 's their turn . |
| 5 | Because we 'd run out of cornflour and it was all not thick enough . |
| 6 | The price you pay for being able to chew when you are young is that you will run out of teeth when you are old . |
| 7 | that 's right , and he gets some unemployment money and I take ten pounds a week off him , for his food , I mean , it 's not enough but it 'll do , you know and then in dribs and drabs begrudgingly from that forty over the week once he starts to run out of money cos he 's paid once a fortnight I begin to give him his karate money and here 's two pounds fifty to go to the pub with Neil , you know , little bits |
| 8 | Piper knows Benn is prone to run out of gas if he ca n't get through in the early rounds . |
| 9 | This way , you will begin the pan smoothly and avoid running out of body-swing before you reach the end . |
| 10 | Adopt a system that alerts to you the fact that you are running out of forms before you actually do so ; put a note in the drawer ten forms from the bottom for this purpose . |
| 11 | And I , if it 'll make it mandatory then we , we 've got all sorts of other forms that you ca n't , you 're running out of forms and you ca n't take a photocopy on . |
| 12 | But against that , unemployment is soaring , industry running out of patience and he is about to authorise massive cuts in public spending . |
| 13 | Erm , and then Marie 's , to pick up , she gets me milk erm er fo sick of running out of milk and she goes every , twice a week to , to get er , main shopping and just milk on Friday , and she said oh I can get you milk so |
| 14 | She was afraid of running out of time before she got to the point . |
| 15 | Sometimes give it away and say right I 'll teach you how to do this , when they keep coming back and saying what wh you 're running out of time and you think give it you can it 's quite common . |
| 16 | He 's run out of plaster and he 's got an urgent call somewhere where he thinks he 'll need it . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've run out of money and I 'm trapped with the children and I do n't like it here . |
| 18 | See we 've run out of buns cos you had one yesterday and that makes one er , there was two there |
| 19 | ‘ I left at the right time as I felt the band had run out of ideas and it was becoming motivated by the wrong things . |
| 20 | Camping but they ran out of money so he would n't be able to see her till payday . |
| 21 | We ran out of water and some other friends ran out of water and we had to help each other and we were getting stuck in the sand and the heat was very high because it was in August and it was around noon time , so erm some people actually turned back erm they could n't continue , unfortunately ; they are friends of ours . |
| 22 | You know nobody takes me seriously and it 'd be a disaster if I ran out of gas where I am now . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ In the end I ran out of material so I had to use a sketch devised by my son ! |
| 24 | Erm we do n't see a great deal of difference that they 've had the same problem as we 've had , in that we ran out of time before we could put the er finished act together properly . |
| 25 | Mr Ford 's plane ran out of fuel after it had taken a battering in Atlantic storms in May 1943 . |
| 26 | You 're in the nearside lane and you 're going uphill and er you 're trunking away quite nicely , you see a guy coming down in the fast lane , down the hill getting a bit of a roll on , fully laden , and he gets halfway up the hill , he runs out of steam and he 's looking for a hole to get into . |