Example sentences of "have [adv] run out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Gooch has clearly run out of excuses for a team which has lost six consecutive Tests . |
| 2 | HUNGARY has nearly run out of misfortune . |
| 3 | Either that or you know that the press has completely run out of lies to write about you . |
| 4 | According to our size , we should die at about 25 years , by which age we should have also run out of heartbeats , having used up well over 800 million . |
| 5 | They reduced the number of questions , leaving more room for follow up — this despite the fact that some groups had apparently run out of questions the previous week . |
| 6 | Then , the day before it was due to begin , they had already run out of conference handbooks . |
| 7 | But the situation had already run out of their — or anyone else 's — control . |
| 8 | For example , consider the following exchange : A ( to passer by ) : I 've just run out of petrol B : Oh ; there 's a garage just around the corner Here B 's utterance may be taken to implicate that A may obtain petrol there , and he would certainly be being less than fully cooperative if he knew the garage was closed or was sold out of petrol ( hence the inference ) . |
| 9 | ‘ She said Sunnie had finally run out of steam , ’ said Mr Sadler . |
| 10 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 11 | They had wanted each other from that first night , and now , in this dimly lit room , with Nicolo 's mouth on hers , with his hands on her breasts , she had finally run out of lies and excuses , not just for him but for herself . |
| 12 | His dream had finally run out in an Arabian nightmare of high living and questionable favours . |
| 13 | at the time , I thought , ‘ This is ridiculous , I 'm holding these boys back ’ because I was also managing a singer called Marc Bolan , and in the quieter moments , he and David would decorate my office to fill in the time , but I said to them that I had just run out of money and could n't afford to carry on — I 'd taken no commission from either of them at the time — so I went off to Spain to think about my next move and released them both from their contracts . ’ |
| 14 | She had not made Dan go , he had practically run out of her life . |
| 15 | The French Commandos firing their captured German mortar had probably run out of bombs . |
| 16 | I do n't like lying to my sister , and I 've now run out of tales she 'll believe . ’ |
| 17 | I ran out of printed business cards over a year ago , and I 've now run out of my stock of the blank cards ( which in view of my handwriting have a rather negative impact in any case ) . |
| 18 | But by June 1990 , the country 's economic situation had become so desperate that it had really run out of options . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've simply run out of time in trying to reach an agreement with all concerned ’ said tournament director , Alex Meyer-Wolden , who nevertheless remains hopeful that he will be able to stage a mixed event in 1992 . |
| 20 | There 's been no government erm We 're now what happens is every now and then like now we just simply run out of money I mean we 've simply run out of money . |
| 21 | If someone comes and they 've actually run out of food , and they 've you know , for some reason or other their giro is either held up or you know , they 've had a big expense er which they 've had to pay , then we would provide them with something . |
| 22 | They have now run out of steam . |
| 23 | After five years when it seems it has been written , rewritten , proof read etc , I have now run out of answers . |
| 24 | Already the Five Nations have almost run out of time . |
| 25 | Mr Major and his cabinet are in disarray and have evidently run out of ideas and of steam . |