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1. Read, translate and learn the definitions by heart:
RUN AWAY
1. secretly leave a place because you are unhappy
there ; escape from a place, person, or situation (сбежать откуда-либо). The children either
came from troubled single-parent homes or had run away from home to
escape from the pressures at school. Mrs
Du Faur even took in a student, who had
run away from ‘a terrible living
situation’ at home. Children
who run away from home normally go
to London.
2. run away from - try to avoid facing up to a difficult situation; avoid responsibility. (избегать)The young father ran
away from his responsibility and didn't support his family. The government are running away from
their responsibilities.
3.run away with – steal sth
and leave with it (украсть); еo take quickly and secretly, especially without permission A thief ran away with Grandma s silver teapot. Someone ran away with the dictionary so
now we don t have one.
RUN DOWN = A. find, discover B. criticise C. (run down/run over)To
hit with a vehicle (car, train, truck)D. become
very tired, loose power
A. Have you run
down those names on the voter list? The police RAN DOWN all the leads they had and caught them.
B. I know a guy who runs everyone down. He`s always running the government down.
C. My cat was run down yesterday. Jack rode his bicycle too fast and almost ran down his little brother. It was so foggy that the steamship almost ran down a small boat leaving port. She’s upset because she ran
over a cat while driving home from work.
D. My wife was really run down after the holidays. The battery has run down.
RUN OUT OF = Have
none left (
We've RUN OUT OF sugar; I'm going to the shops
for some. When mother ran out of milk,
she would send me to the store. I've nearly run
out of money. Come on, time is running
out. But he and his men were running out of supplies, and many were at
their wits end.
Few of us would know what to do if our water or electricity supplies
were cut off, or the supermarkets ran out of food.
If a local council runs out of money it is the duty of central
government to bail them out and not to charge the householders extra money.
RUN TROUGH = to repeat or rehearse something in order to practise it or to make sure that it is correct; Quickly
practice or rehearse a play, performance, song, or presentation.
повторять, репетировать
I just need to run through my speech one more time. Let's run through our lines for the school play. I’d like to
run through the
presentation one more time to make sure everything’s perfect.
Before we get on to the
clinical implications, let's just quickly run through what the possible reasons
are.
We did some
rehearsing yesterday evening, running through some old Dr. Feelgood numbers.
RUN INTO
1. Collide
with sth (in a vehicle); to hit something while you are driving a vehicle
налететь на что-либо, столкнуться с чем-либо
He skidded and ran into a tree. he ran into a
lamppost. A passing car lost control and ran into the telephone kiosk
knocking it to the ground.
And
then suddenly, one of the guys ran into me, knocking me down, along with my
box, which held my computer disks and floppies.
2. To meet
someone you know when you are not expecting to; Meet by chance .случайно встретить кого-либо
I ran into Emma on my way home. I ran into
Moira on the way home. Then, quite by chance, he runs into a woman with
whom he had a furtive adolescent relationship.
The chances of running into Clayton out here were next to nil,
but I looked anyway.
3. If you
run into difficulties, you begin to experience them. попадать в какое-либо
положение
The bank
ran into financial difficulties. He had run into financial difficulties trying
to maintain two families.
Just after
I finished school, my older brother Hal ran into some financial difficulties.
These huge
numbers are due to the increasing numbers of people running into difficulties
because of credit card debts and other loans.
2. Modal verbs - the rule (GB pp 72-73