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run /rʌn/ v ( -nn- ; pt ran /ræn/; pp run ) ၁။ ေျပးသည္။ He cannot run because he has a weak heart. ❍ They turned and ran when they saw us coming. ❍ Can you run as fast as Mike? ❍ She ran/came running to meet us. ❍ I had to run to catch the bus. ❍ She ran out to see what was happening. ❍ The dogs ran off as soon as we appeared. ❍ He ran home in tears to his mother. ၂။ (က) ေျပးသည္။ Who was the first man to run a mile in under four minutes? See also RUN A MILE (MILE) (ခ) အားကစားတစ္ရပ္အျဖစ္ ေျပးသည္။ You're very unfit; you ought to take up running. ❍ She used to run when she was at college. (ဂ) ~ (in sth) အေျပးၿပိဳင္သည္။ ဝင္ေျပးသည္။ Christie will be running (in the 100 metres) tonight. ❍ run the marathon ❍ Lewis ran a fine race to take the gold medal. (ဃ) (esp passive) (အေျပးၿပိဳင္ပြဲ၊ ျမင္းၿပိဳင္ပြဲ စသည္) က်င္းပသည္။ The Derby will be run in spite of the bad weather. See also RUNNER ၁ ၃။ အေျပးအလႊား သြားသည္။ I've been running around (town) all morning buying Christmas presents. ၄။ (က) ေျပးဆြဲသည္။ ေျပးသည္။ Buses to Oxford run every half hour. ❍ The ferries don't run on Christmas Day. ❍ Trains run between London and Brighton throughout the day. (ခ) ေျပးေပးသည္။ London Transport run extra trains during the rush hour. ၅။ ကားျဖင့္ ေမာင္းပို႔သည္။ Can I run you to the station? ၆။ ေျပးသည္။ Trains run on rails. ❍ Sledges run well over frozen snow. ၇။ (က) ထိုး (ဆင္း၊ က်) သည္။ ျဖဳန္းခနဲထသည္။ The van ran down the hill out of control. ❍ The car ran off the road into a ditch. ❍ A shiver ran down my spine. (ခ) ျဖတ္သန္းဆြဲယူလိုက္ သည္။ ေဝ့(ၾကည့္)လိုက္သည္။ She ran her fingers nervously through her hair. ❍ I ran my eyes over the page. ၈။ (သေဘၤာ) ဝင္ေအာင္းသည္။ We/The ship ran aground. ၉။ (က) ေျပးထားသည္။ ေျပးလ်က္ရိွသည္။ A fence runs round the whole field. ❍ He has a scar running across his left cheek. ❍ The road runs parallel to the railway. (ခ) (တန္း၊ ႀကိဳးတန္း စသည္) ပစ္သည္၊ ေျပးသည္။ We ran a cable from the lights to the stage. ၁၀။ (က) ~ (for sth) တာရွည္သည္။ ၾကာသည္။ Her last musical ran (ie was performed regularly) for six months on Broadway. ❍ Election campaigns in Britain run for three weeks. ❍ The critics predict this play will run and run! (ခ) သက္တမ္းရိွသည္။ The lease on my house has only a year to run. ၁၁။ ခိုးသြင္းသည္။ ေမွာင္ခိုကုန္ကူးသည္။ He used to run guns across the border. See also RUNNER ၂ ❍ smuggle ၁၂။ အဆိုရိွသည္။ ဆိုသည္။ She poisoned her husband, or so the story runs. ❍ ‘Ten shot dead by gunmen,’ ran the newspaper headline. ၁၃။ (က) စီးသည္။ စီးဆင္းသည္။ The River Rhine runs into the North Sea. ❍ The tears ran down her cheeks. ❍ Water was running all over the bathroom floor. (ခ) ~ sth (for sb) (ေရပိုက္) ဖြင့္သည္။ (ေရ)ခံေပးသည္။ She ran hot water into the bowl. ❍ run the hot tap ❍ Could you run me a hot bath/run a hot bath for me? (ဂ) (ေရပိုက္)ဖြင့္သည္။ (မ်က္ရည္၊ ႏွာရည္)က်သည္။ Who left the tap running? ❍ Your nose is running (ie MUCUS is flowing from it). ❍ The smoke makes my eyes run. ❍ drip n (ဃ) ( techn or fml ) (ဒီ၊ ဖ်ားေရ) တက္သည္။ The tide was running strong. (င) ~ with sth (usu in the continuous tenses) စိုရႊဲေနသည္။ His face was running with sweat. ❍ The bathroom floor is running with water. ၁၄။ (က) (ေဆး) ကြၽတ္သည္။ I'm afraid the colour ran when I washed your new skirt. (ခ) ေပ်ာ္က်သည္။ It was so hot that the butter ran. ❍ The wax began to run. ❍ ( fig ) The tears blurred his eyes and the words of her letter began to run into one another. See also RUNNY ၂ ၁၅။ (က) (အေျခအေနတစ္ခုခုသို႔) ဆိုက္သြား သည္။ The river ran dry (ie stopped flowing) during the drought. ❍ Supplies are running short/low. ❍ We've run short of milk. ❍ You've got your rivals running scared. (ခ) ~ at sth (used esp in the continuous tenses) (အဆင့္၊ အေျခအေနတစ္ရပ္ရပ္၌) ရိွသည္။ Inflation was now running at 26 per cent. ❍ Sales are running at barely half their 1992 level. ၁၆။ (က) စီမံခန္႔ခြဲသည္။ စီမံသည္။ ကြပ္ကဲသည္။ run a hotel/a shop/a language school ❍ He has no idea how to run a successful business. ❍ Stop trying to run (ie organize) my life for me! ❍ The shareholders want to have more say in how the company is run. ❍ a badly-run company. See also RUNNING ၂ (ခ) (ယာဥ္၊ စက္ပစၥည္းအသံုးအေဆာင္ စသည္) ဝယ္စီးသည္၊ ဝယ္သံုးသည္။ I can't afford to run a car on my salary. ၁၇။ (သင္တန္း) ဖြင့္သည္။ The college runs summer courses for foreign learners of English. ၁၈။ (က) ေမာင္းသည္။ [ဥ] (ဘဝခရီး) ႏွင္သည္။ Stan had the chain-saw running. ❍ Our van runs on (ie uses) diesel. ❍ ( fig ) Her life has run smoothly up to now. (ခ) (esp in the continuous tenses) ဝင္သည္။ (ျပစ္ဒဏ္ တစ္ေပါင္း တည္း) က်ခံေစသည္။ The trains are running late. ❍ I'm afraid programmes are running (a few minutes) behind schedule this evening. ❍ The murderer was given three life sentences, to run concurrently. (ဂ) (စမ္းသပ္မႈ) ျပဳလုပ္သည္။ The consultant decided to run some more tests on the blood samples. ၁၉။ ေမာင္းသည္။ (တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ ႏွင့္ တြဲဖက္၍) အသံုးျပဳသည္။ Could you run the engine for a moment? ❍ Can you run this program on the computer for me? ❍ I can run my electric razor off (ie with power from) the mains. ၂၀။ ~ (for sb/sth); ~ (in sth) (ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္) ဝင္ေရာက္ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္သည္။ Reagan ran a second time in 1980. ❍ How many candidates are running for the Presidency/in the Presidential election? ၂၁။ (သတင္းစာ၊ မဂၢဇင္းတြင္) ထည့္သြင္းေဖာ္ျပသည္။ The Guardian is running a series of articles on the Russian economy. ၂၂။ ( esp US ) (ေျခအိတ္ စေသာ ရက္ထည္ တြင္) ေရစီးေၾကာင္းေပၚသည္။ Nylon tights sometimes run. n ၁။ [C] ေျပးျခင္း။ အေျပး။ I go for a run every morning. ❍ Catching sight of her, he broke into a run. ❍ It started to rain heavily and we had to make a run for it. ၂။ [C] တစ္ပတ္စီးျခင္း၊ ေမာင္းျခင္း။ take the car out for a run in the country. ၃။ [C] လမ္းေၾကာင္း။ This ferry operates on the Dover-Calais run. ၄။ [C] ပြဲဆက္။ The play had a good run/a run of six months/a limited run. ❍ It's just finished its run on Broadway. ❍ France maintained their unbeaten run in the World Cup by beating Norway 1-0 last night. See also DRY RUN, DUMMY RUN, TRIAL RUN ၅။ [C] (ျဖစ္စဥ္) တစ္ေၾကာ။ a run of bad luck ❍ We've enjoyed an exceptional run of fine weather recently. ၆။ [C usu sing ] ~ on sth အလုအယက္ ၿပံဳတိုးၾကျခင္း။ a run on sterling following its rise in value against the dollar ❍ When the new currency measures were announced, there was a run on the bank (ie a sudden withdrawing of money by many customers). ၇။ [C] (often in compounds) ၿခံ။ a chicken-run. ၈။ [C] (ႏွင္းေလွ်ာစီး) ေလွ်ာလမ္း။ a ski-run ❍ a to boggan run. ၉။ [C] (ေဘ့စ္ေဘာ၊ ခရစ္ကက္တို႔တြင္) တစ္ေခါက္ေျပး၍ အသင္းအတြက္ ရေသာတစ္မွတ္။ He was in for 20 minutes before scoring his first run. ❍ Our team won by 87 runs. See also HOME RUN ၁၀။ [sing] the ~ of sth အသြား အလာ။ အဆင္။ After 40 minutes Spurs scored against the run of play (ie although they had looked less likely to score than their opponents). ❍ The run of the cards favoured me (ie I was dealt good cards). ၁၁။ [C] ( music ) သံစဥ္တစ္ေလွ်ာက္ တက္သံ သက္သံ အျမန္လိွမ့္၍ ဆိုျခင္း၊ တီးျခင္း။ ၁၂။ [C] = ladder ၃: get a run in one's tights. ၁၃။ the runs [pl] ( sl ) ဝမ္းပ်က္ျခင္း။ DIARRHOEA ❏ at a run [ IDM ] အေျပး။ He started off at a run but soon tired and slowed to a walk. ❏ come running [ IDM ] အူယားဖားယားလာသည္။ She knew she only had to telephone and he would come running. ❏ the common, general, ordinary, etc run (of sth) [ IDM ] သူလိုငါလိုအတန္းအစား။ သာမေညာင္ည။ He was completely different from the normal run of people I knew. ❏ give sb/get/have the run of sth [ IDM ] စိတ္ႀကိဳက္ ခြင့္ျပဳထားသည္။ စိတ္တိုင္းက်။ He gave me the run of his library. ❍ Her dogs have the run of the house. ❏ give sb a (good, etc) run for their money [ IDM ] ဝံ့ဝံ့စားစားယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္အႏိုင္လုသည္။ They may win the game, but we'll give them a good run for their money. ❏ have a good, excellent, etc run for one's money [ IDM ] လုပ္ရက်ဳိးနပ္သည္။ I don't mind retiring at all; I've had an excellent run for my money (ie a very satisfying career). ❏ in the long run [ IDM ] ေရရွည္တြင္။ ❏ in the short run [ IDM ] လက္ငင္းတြင္။ Her present unpopularity is not going to help in the short run, of course, but in the longer run she may still be the best election hope for the Democrats. ❏ on the run [ IDM ] ၁။ ထြက္ေျပးတိမ္းေရွာင္သည္။ have/keep the enemy on the run ❍ He's on the run from the police. ၂။ ( infml ) တစ္ခ်က္မွ်မနားရ။ I've been on the run all day and I'm exhausted. ❏ run across sb/sth [ PHRV ] မေမွ်ာ္လင့္ဘဲဆံုမိသည္။ I ran across my old friend Jean in Paris last week. ❏ run after sb [ PHRV ] (no passive) ၁။ ေျပးလိုက္သည္။ The dog was running after a rabbit. ၂။ ( infml ) အမိဖမ္းဖို႔ ႀကိဳးစားသည္။ လိုက္သည္။ She runs after every good-looking man she meets. ❏ run along [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အသာေဝးေဝး သြားေနစမ္း။ Run along now, children, I'm busy. ❏ run-around n ( infml ) ❏ give sb the run-around [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္ပတ္႐ိုက္သည္။ ႏွပ္သြားသည္။ My lawyer's never available when I ring—I think he's giving me the run-around. ❏ run at sb [ PHRV ] (no passive) အႏၲရာယ္ျပဳရန္ ေျပးလာ သည္။ He ran at me with a knife. ❏ run away (from sb/…) [ PHRV ] ထြက္ေျပးသည္။ Louise had a sudden urge to throw her homework at the teacher and run away. ❍ He ran away from home at the age of thirteen. See also RUNAWAY ❏ run away from sth [ PHRV ] ေရွာင္ထြက္သည္။ run away from a difficult situation ❍ Her suicide bid was an attempt to run away from reality. ❏ run away with one [ PHRV ] (ခံစားခ်က္က) လံုးဝဥႆံု လႊမ္းမိုးလိုက္သည္။ Her imagination tends to run away with her. ❏ run away with sb; run away (together) (also infml run off with sb , run off (together) ) [ PHRV ] လိုက္ေျပး သည္။ She ran away with her boss/She and her boss ran away (together). ❏ run away with sth [ PHRV ] အလြယ္တကူ ႏိုင္လိုက္သည္။ The champion ran away with the match. ❏ run sth back [ PHRV ] (တိပ္ေခြစသည္) ျပန္ရစ္သည္။ ❏ run back over sth [ PHRV ] ျပန္ေကာက္သည္။ I'll run back over the procedure once again. ❏ run sth by/past sb [ PHRV ] ( infml esp US ) သေဘာထား သိလို၍ တင္ျပသည္။ ❏ run-down n (usu sing ) ၁။ ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ျခင္း။ the government's gradual run-down of the coal industry. ၂။ ~ (of/on sth) ( infml ) အေသးစိတ္ ရွင္းျပျခင္း။ give sb/get a run-down on sth ❍ I want a complete run-down on the situation. adj ၁။ ခ်ံဳးခ်ံဳးက်ေနေသာ။ a run-down area/town/industry ❍ The whole city is in a very run-down state. ၂။ (အလုပ္ပိ၍) ခ်ံဳးက်ေနေသာ။ be/feel/get run-down ❍ You look pretty run-down. Why don't you take a few days off? ❏ run (sth) down [ PHRV ] ၁။ အားကုန္သည္။ My car battery has run down; it needs recharging. ❍ If you leave your headlights on you'll soon run down the battery. ၂။ (often in the continuous tenses) လံုးပါးပါး (ေန)သည္။ က်ဆင္း (ေန)သည္။ ေလွ်ာ့ခ်သည္။ British manufacturing industry has been running down for years. ❍ The local steelworks is being run down and is likely to close within three years. ❍ The company is running down its sales force. See also RUN-DOWN ❏ run sb/sth down [ PHRV ] ၁။ (ယာဥ္ျဖင့္) ဝင္တိုက္သည္။ The cyclist was run down by a car/motorist. ၂။ ႐ႈတ္ခ် သည္။ He's always running down his wife's cooking in public. ၃။ ( esp Brit ) ရွာပံုေတာ္ဇာတ္လမ္းဆံုးသည္။ I finally ran the book down in the university library. ❏ run for it [ IDM ] (esp imperative) ေျပးႏိုင္မွ လြတ္မည္။ Here come the police — run for it! ❏ run-in n ၁။ ~ (to sth) ပြဲမဝင္မီ ျပင္ဆင္ခ်ိန္။ during the run-in to the Christmas. ၂။ ~ (with sb) ထိပ္တိုက္ တိုးျခင္း။ have a run-in with the police. ❏ run sb in [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ရဲစခန္းသို႔ ဖမ္းသြားသည္။ He was run in for drunk and disorderly behaviour. ❏ run sth in [ PHRV ] ( Brit ) (ေမာ္ေတာ္ကား) အင္ဂ်င္အသစ္ကို အသားက်ေအာင္ မွန္မွန္ျဖည္းျဖည္း ေမာင္းသည္။ Don't drive your new car too fast until you've run it in. ❏ run into sb [ PHRV ] ကံအားေလ်ာ္စြာ ဆံုမိသည္။ Guess who I ran into today? ❍ I ran into an old schoolfriend at the supermarket this morning. ❏ run into sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ (ဆိုးရြားေသာ ရာသီဥတုႏွင့္) ဝင္တိုးသည္။ We ran into a patch of thick fog just outside Naples. ၂။ (ျပႆနာ၊ အခက္အခဲႏွင့္) ႀကံဳႀကိဳက္သည္။ The project is running into financial difficulties. ❍ run into debt/danger/trouble. ၃။ (no passive) (ေဖာ္ျပထားေသာ အဆင့္၊ ပမာဏ) ရိွသည္။ Her income runs into six figures (ie is more than £100,000 or $100,000). ❍ The publishers are hoping the book will run into a second edition. ❏ run (sth) into sb/sth [ PHRV ] ဝင္တိုက္မိသည္။ The bus went out of control and ran into a shop front. ❍ She ran (ie drove) her car into a tree while reversing. ❏ run-off n မဲအေရအတြက္ တိုက္ေနသျဖင့္ ထပ္မံ မဲေပးျခင္း။ a run-off ballot/election. ❏ run (sth) off [ PHRV ] ၁။ ( Brit ) သြန္သည္။ စီးက်သည္။ ၂။ ငွဲ႔သည္။ ❏ run sth off [ PHRV ] ၁။ ႐ိုက္ႏိွပ္သည္။ (စက္ျဖင့္) ကူးသည္။ Could you run (me) off twenty copies of the agenda? ၂။ အေျပးၿပိဳင္ပြဲက်င္းပသည္။ The heats of the 200 metres will be run off tomorrow. See also RUN-OFF ❏ run off with sb; run off (together) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) = RUN AWAY WITH SB ❏ run off with sth [ PHRV ] လစ္ေျပးသည္။ The treasurer has run off with the club's funds. ❏ run-of-the-mill adj ( often derog ) သာမည။ ေလွႀကီးထိုး ႐ိုး႐ိုးပံုစံ။ a run-of-the-mill detective story. ❏ run on [ PHRV ] သံသရာရွည္သည္။ The meeting will finish promptly — I don't want it to run on. ❏ run on sth [ PHRV ] (no passive) တဝဲလည္လည္ ျပန္ေရာက္ေနသည္။ His thoughts kept running on what her remarks could have meant. ❏ run out [ PHRV ] သက္တမ္းကုန္သည္။ The lease on our apartment runs out in a few months. ❍ My visa has run out. ❏ run out (of sth) [ PHRV ] ျပတ္သြားသည္။ ကုန္သည္။ Our fuel ran out/We ran out of fuel. ❍ Time is running out for the trapped miners. ❍ Could I have a cigarette? I seem to have run out. ❏ run out on sb [ PHRV ] ( infml ) စြန္႔ခြာထြက္ေျပးသည္။ He ran out on her when she became pregnant. ❏ run sb out [ PHRV ] (often passive) (ခရစ္ကက္တြင္) ဘက္တံ႐ိုက္သူ တစ္ဖက္အသင္းသား လံုၿခံဳရာသို႔ မေရာက္မီ သံုးတိုင္တြဲကို ေဘာလံုးႏွင့္ပစ္ခြင္း၍ ဘက္တံ႐ိုက္သူကို ျဖဳတ္လိုက္ သည္။ ❏ run over [ PHRV ] လွ်ံက်သည္။ OVERFLOW ၁ : The bath (water) is running over. ❏ run over sb; run sb over [ PHRV ] (ကားႏွင့္) ႀကိတ္မိ သည္၊ ႀကိတ္လိုက္သည္။ I ran over a cat last night. ❍ Two children were run over by a drunk driver/a speeding vehicle and killed. ❏ run over sth [ PHRV ] ခပ္သုတ္သုတ္ဖတ္သည္၊ ေလ့က်င့္ သည္။ She ran over her notes before giving the lecture. ❍ I always run over my lines before going on stage. ❏ run-through n ဇာတ္တိုက္ျခင္း။ There will be a run-through of the whole play tonight. ❏ run through sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ (no passive) ႐ိုက္ခတ္ လႈပ္ရွားသည္။ An angry murmur ran through the crowd. ❍ Thoughts of revenge kept running through his mind. ၂။ (no passive) စိမ့္ဝင္ပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႔ေနသည္။ A deep melancholy runs through her poetry. ❍ There is a deep-seated conservatism running through our society. ၃။ တက္သုတ္ႏွင္၍ ၾကည့္သည္။ He ran through the names on the list. ၄။ ျပန္ေကာက္သည္။ And now we'll run through main points of the news again. ❍ Could we run through your proposals once again? ၅။ ဇာတ္တိုက္သည္။ Could we run through Scene 3 again, please? See also RUN-THROUGH ၆။ သံုးျဖဳန္းပစ္သည္။ She ran through the entire estate within two years. ❏ run to sth [ PHRV ] ၁။ (no passive) (ေဖာ္ျပထားေသာ ပမာဏ) ရိွသည္။ The book runs to nearly 800 pages. ၂။ (ကိစၥတစ္စံုတစ္ရာအတြက္ ေငြ) အလံုအေလာက္ရိွသည္။ တတ္ႏိုင္ သည္။ We can't run to a new car. ❍ Our funds won't run to a trip abroad this year. ❏ run up [ PHRV ] (အားကစားသမား တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ မျပဳလုပ္မီ) အရိွန္ယူသည္။ See also RUN-UP ❏ run-up n ၁။ ~ (to sth) အႀကိဳကာလ။ during the run-up to Christmas. ၂။ ေျပး၍အရိွန္ယူျခင္း။ a fast/short run-up. ❏ run sth up [ PHRV ] ၁။ (အေႂကြး) တင္သည္။ (ကုန္က် စရိတ္) တက္သည္။ You'll run up a big gas bill if you leave the heater on all the time. ၂။ အျမန္ခ်ဳပ္လုပ္သည္။ run up a blouse/dress/skirt. ၃။ (အလံစသည္) တင္သည္၊ လႊင့္သည္။ run up the Union Jack. ❏ run up against sth [ PHRV ] (အခက္အခဲ၊ ျပႆနာ) ရင္ဆိုင္ရသည္။ The government is running up against considerable opposition to its privatization plans.

Examples

1. You’ll have to run if you want to catch the bus.
2. [run across/into/down etc] : A cat ran across the road in front of me.
3. [run to] : I ran to the door and opened it.
4. [run for cover/shelter] : We ran for shelter as soon as the rain started.
5. He’s running the 100m.
6. [run in] : I’d love to run in the London Marathon.
7. The race will be run at 3 pm.
8. How quickly can you run a mile?
9. Sue’s been running a mail-order business for ten years.
10. [run a campaign] : He was the man who ran Clinton’s election campaign.
11. The shelter is run entirely by volunteers.
12. The bus company runs a regular airport shuttle service.
13. Don’t leave the car engine running.
14. I ran the dishwasher even though it wasn’t full.
15. [run on petrol/electricity etc] : Does your car run on petrol or diesel?
16. [run off the mains] : My laptop can run off the mains or a battery.
17. Try running the program again and see if it works.
18. [run on] : The software will run on any PC.
19. [run under] : A spreadsheet package that runs under Windows or Unix
20. Expenses involved in running a car
21. [run down/from etc] : Tears were running down his face.
22. Blood ran from a wound in her leg.
23. [run into/to/from etc] : The Rhine runs into the North Sea.
24. [run with] : His back was running with sweat.
25. I ran a sink full of cold water.
26. [run (someone) a bath] : Dad offered to run me a bath.
27. A soap opera that has been running for many years
28. How long did the film run for?
29. The contract only has another couple of months to run.
30. The train only runs at weekends.
31. [run on time] : Do the buses run on time?
32. [be running 10 minutes/two hours etc late] : The train was running twenty minutes late.
33. [run someone to/into] : John kindly offered to run me into town.
34. [run someone there/home/back etc] : I’ll run you there
35. it’s no trouble.
36. [run into/down/through etc] : The truck ran down the hill and into a shop window.
37. Ticket prices were running anywhere from £50 to £200.
38. [run at] : Inflation is running at 3%.
39. [run something through/across/down something] : Fred ran his fingers gently through her hair.
40. In a fit of jealousy
41. he ran a key down the side of Greg’s car.
42. [run along/around/through etc] : There was a path running through the middle of the forest.
43. [run parallel to something] : A mountain range runs parallel to the western border.
44. [run something under/behind/through etc something] : You could run the cable behind the desk.
45. A chill ran through me (=I suddenly felt frightened).
46. Our thoughts seem to run along the same lines (=we think the same).
47. [run to] : His thoughts ran to the first time he had met Matilda.
48. [something runs through your mind/head] : The thought that she might be lying ran through my mind.
49. How many candidates are running?
50. [run for] : Jackson announced his intention to run for president.
51. [run against] : There will be three candidates running against her.
52. Crying had made her mascara run.
53. We know of several groups who are running guns into the country.
54. [run up/over] : Ivy runs up the walls of the house.
55. The curtains run on these tracks.
56. The text ran something like this: ‘Don’t mess with our business!’