英会話・英語 アミック – Phrasal verb with “run” (part 2)
2018/10/06
Run away
- Meaning: Flee by running
- Example: The crowd had to run away from the burning structure with only the clothes on their backs.
Run away
- Meaning: Leave home
- Example: The little boy was unhappy about having to take a bath every day and decided to run away from home.
Run away with
- Meaning: Leave secretly with another person
- Example: She ran away with my best friend.
Run away with
- Meaning: Steal and get away with it
- Example: The robber ran away with some valuable paintings.
Run away with
- Meaning: Be misled
- Example: Don’t run away with the idea that this money will solve all your problems.
Run away with
- Meaning: Overwhelm, get the better of
- Example: He allowed his emotions to run away with him.
Run away with
- Meaning: Be superior or outstanding in something
- Example: Team USA ran away with the medal count.
Run back
- Meaning: Take someone home by car; to give someone a lift to their house
- Example: If you can wait a couple of minutes, I’ll run you back.
Run back
- Meaning: Rewind a film or cassette
- Example: Can you run it back to the beginning, please?
Run by
- Meaning: Inform someone briefly of the main points of an idea
- Example: Let me run that idea by the board before we spend too much time on it.
Run by
- Meaning: Briefly stop at a location for a particular purpose
- Example: Can you run by the store for milk?
RUN DOWN meaning – Phrasal verbs with RUN
Run down
- Meaning: Hit someone with a car or other vehicle and injure or kill them
- Example: He was run down while crossing the main road.
Run down
- Meaning: Criticize someone or an organisation, often unfairly
- Example: My sister is always running me down in front of my friends.
Run down
- Meaning: Find something or someone after searching for a long time
- Example: I finally managed to run down that report. I had filed it incorrectly.
Run down
- Meaning: Lose power slowly
- Example: If you don’t switch off the car lights, you will run the battery down.
Run down
- Meaning: Read quickly a list or other short text
- Example: Running down the list of suggestions, I can see three we can discard immediately.
Run down
- Meaning: Reduce the size or stock levels of a business, often with a view to closure
- Example: The board of directors have decided to run down the stocks held in storage prior to offering the company for sale.
Run for it
- Meaning: To run very quickly in order to escape from someone or something
- Example: As soon as he looked the other way, we ran for it.
