Example sentences of "ran out " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ran out of money and places to stay . |
| 2 | And all too soon the stilted conversation ran out . |
| 3 | It was a place of moss and mud and standing pools , myriads of flies twirled in the sun-rays , and dogs and children ran out to greet the newcomers in a raucous chorus . |
| 4 | A horse whinnied and reared ; the troop trotted quickly out of the inn yard towards the high road ; Colberg rode up as hundreds of people — women , children , men — ran out of the woods along the riverbank upstream . |
| 5 | They ran out of petrol some miles from their destination , fortunately near to some houses whose occupants came to their rescue . |
| 6 | It became self evident when it was time to stop as the depth of cut ran out , though this was not a problem as I wanted the effect of closely surrounding foliage . |
| 7 | ‘ I ran out of steam . |
| 8 | But Biggs also ran out of steam as the contest progressed towards the later rounds although he managed to conceal this inadequacy from the British champion . |
| 9 | The expensive seafront hotels still heave each night with political and trade union cameraderie ; though , tellingly , the Grand Hotel once ran out of Perrier water . |
| 10 | But , sure enough , when Swansea 's money ran out , so did the players . |
| 11 | They ran out on Saturday to a cautious welcome from a crowd of 1,823 ( the best this season and lowest of the day ) a week after losing to Doncaster : it was not so much that Doncaster had scored their first away goals of the season , rather that they got six without reply . |
| 12 | Some refugees managed to obtain extra ration cards , and at the Harshin and Hartishek camps food repeatedly ran out before everyone had received their ration . |
| 13 | Congress was not able to address that question because the delegates ran out of time . |
| 14 | ‘ As Londoners , desperately worried about the present route of the Channel tunnel , what do we say to those who think the Talis alternative is beneficial ? ’ — Chris Fraser , Peckham ‘ Out of the huge crowd of demonstrators , a woman ran out and thrust a baby in my arms — then she vanished ’ — Kenneth Clarke , Secretary of State for Health ‘ Polluted rivers , filthy streets , bodies bedded-down in doorways are no advertisement for a prosperous or caring society ’ - Michael Heseltine ‘ We know that God has endowed her with that great quality of not fidgeting when it is necessary to come to grips with prickly nettles … |
| 15 | He ran out two batsmen , took two wickets with his off-spin and helped West Indies recover from 31 for 3 with a quick 34 . |
| 16 | As one of them related to Yakovlev , he had tried to get straw from his brother in a nearby village when he ran out of lighting-fuel , but officials had stopped him , since he was stealing ‘ from the poor … there 's sucilizm ( sic ) for you ’ , Ivanovka Soviet on the other hand was managed by no obvious clique , and the very few rich peasants had no general influence in the village , which contained no poor households but a lot of middling ones . |
| 17 | When uncle Eugenio saw Judas striking a bargain with the Romans he cried out ‘ I ca n't stand this ! ’ and ran out of the movie theatre . |
| 18 | The widow gathered her children and ran out of the front door seeking protection from another Bengali family thirty yards across the court . |
| 19 | ‘ Graham led from the first lap to the 97th at Monaco , and then ran out of oil . |
| 20 | The Fourth Division side ran out 4-1 winners . |
| 21 | Beeson also reached 4-0 in the third game before his energy ran out . |
| 22 | Both are built in Japan , though the Lynx was designed in California by Epyx , a software house which ran out of development funds and sold the product to Atari . |
| 23 | Jag at bay Sweden 's Per Eklund ran out of time yesterday after gearbox and electrical problems in his Landseer . |
| 24 | The Chethams ran out of heirs and in 1819 so did the Cottons , with the death of William Cotton . |
| 25 | In 1886 they ran out of money and the bank foreclosed . |
| 26 | ‘ You were a graduate entry , were n't you ? ’ she asked as this conversation ran out , ‘ and in the Flying Squad ? ’ |
| 27 | Each infantry battalion and armoured regiment had to have an operational ‘ peg ’ , but much of the sting was taken out of the Sandys Reformation , as far as the Army was concerned , by many of its regiments having 2nd and 3rd battalions , which could be amalgamated with 1st battalions as National Servicemen ran out , thus preserving regimental traditions . |
| 28 | Wheat futures in Chicago dropped to 13-year lows in November when grain sales to the Soviet Union petered out after that country ran out of cash . |
| 29 | One explanation for all the flying muck is that , after such a long campaign , the candidates ( whose views are similar on many issues ) simply ran out of things to say . |
| 30 | For this unprecedented event some 300,000 people turned out — so many , in fact , that they ran out of American , Israeli , French and British flags , and had to make their own crude copies before they could burn them . |