Example sentences of "run [adv] of [noun] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know where to come if I run out of tea bags . |
| 2 | " I hear there 's a rumour going around Manhattan that they had to close down again the day after you shopped there because they 'd run out of Paris fashions ; is that true ? " |
| 3 | The only pity of it is that they 're running out of Forster novels to film . |
| 4 | On top of everything else , Italy is running out of opera singers , probably because the theatres have to spend their money on things other than academies for voice-training . |
| 5 | Daddy , they 've run out of gold ones . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm reflooring my other bedroom floor ’ — emphasis was placed on the ‘ other ’ — ‘ and run out of wood nails . |
| 7 | But the main problem with defectors is that they quickly run out of crown jewels and then inevitably resort to inventing what they think their new-found paymasters want to hear in order to extend their usefulness and avoid being discarded to end their days washing dishes in a Hungarian restaurant in downtown Washington . |
| 8 | The rest are occupied by morose couples , mostly women , pairs of widowed sisters or spinster daughters with ageing mothers , and two Golden Wedding survivors who gaze out of a window across the green expanse of Parkers Piece , having run out of conversation years ago . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Many stores have run out of vacuum cleaners — and hundreds are being offered in newspaper small ads at a bargain £60 as shoppers try to sell cleaners they never wanted in the first place . |
| 11 | Then , the day before it was due to begin , they had already run out of conference handbooks . |
| 12 | Those who go to war with an non-networked PC are likely to be on the wrong side of the line or at least run out of tank spares first . |
| 13 | These are run independently of college authorities ( although they may be supported and encouraged by them ) . |
| 14 | ANGRY customers ran riot in a High Street store after it ran out of mince pies . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When we ran out of jam jars we pressed the daffodils and tulips into the earth . |
| 17 | Matthew ran out of percussion caps for the tank . |