{"id":1349,"date":"2016-07-05T15:50:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T15:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1349"},"modified":"2016-07-05T15:50:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T15:50:59","slug":"phrasal-verbs-with-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/phrasal-verbs-with-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrasal verbs with run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of expressions beginning with run. Each one is followed by its meaning. Example sentences are also given.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Run in<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If a particular quality runs in a family it is common to all members of it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Social activism runs in the family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The run (= average type)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She stood out from the general run of female writers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The runs \/ the royal runs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is an informal expression referring to diarrhoea.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where is the toilet? I have got the royal runs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Be run off your feet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you are run off your feet, you are very busy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am run off my feet. I don\u2019t have time to talk now.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Be on the run<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To be on the run is to try to escape from arrest.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The criminals are on the run.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Run across<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To run across someone is to meet them by chance.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I ran across an old friend of mine yesterday.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Run somebody down<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To run somebody down is to criticize them severely.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He always runs down his rivals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Run out<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Become no longer valid or available<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Food supplies are running out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Run over<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To run over is to overflow.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cistern is running over.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Run someone over<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To run someone over is to knock them down with a vehicle.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The child was run over by a truck.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Run something up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To allow a bill or debt to build up<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He has run up huge debts.<\/li>\n<li>Our expenses have run up considerably.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Run up against<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Experience a difficulty or problem.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We ran up against some unexpected hurdles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a list of expressions beginning with run. Each one is followed by its meaning. Example sentences are also given. Run in If a particular quality runs in a family it is common&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phrasal-verbs","tag-phrasal-verbs-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}