hi everybody welcome to inkvid.com i'm
adam
in today's video i want to give you some
more phrasal verbs
that are very useful to know sometimes a
little bit hard
to understand if you're not told what
they mean so we're going to look at
phrasal verbs with the verb run okay
now again a phrasal verb is a
combination of a verb
and a preposition that can be
have a list can have a literal meaning
but often have
secondary even third meanings that are
completely different
from the two words that are combined so
now
we're going to look at run one of the
first things you need to remember is
that a run
always has the idea of something quickly
so in many of these
that's a bit of a factor right so we're
going to look at
run out or run out of something so when
you run out
of when you run out of something it
means you don't have any more
of that thing now you can depends if you
want to use of or with of or without up
depends on how you structure the
sentence
so for example you go to a store and you
have you ask the cashier
something do you have any more of this
particular model of
something and the cashier will say oh no
i'm sorry we've run
out that means it's understood that they
they don't have any more of this
particular model
or no i'm sorry we've run out of this
particular model
so of will specify the thing that
is no more right another meaning of run
out is more literal
means to run out so if you
need some milk because you want to have
cereal
but you ran out of milk ran out
the first one meaning you don't have any
more then you can just run out to the
store and buy some
means actually go quickly get something
come back
very literal meaning okay so that's run
out
run through so again the literal meaning
you can actually run
through a building for example or
through a window if that's your fancy
but another meaning is to check for
something
so you can run through the books run
through the files
to try to find the invoice from last
week
or you can take some like if you need to
understand something or do a calculation
you can run
the problem or the equation through the
computer
or you can run something through a
machine let the machine
check it for you much more quickly right
so
run through is often used when we're
talking about machines
you're going to run it through to make
sure it's all correct
or you're just trying to find something
run in or run into now run in
is not very commonly used as a verb it's
more commonly used as a
as an adjective or a noun so to have
a run-in you can have a run-in with the
law
if you have a run-in with the law that
means you have a bit of a problem with
the police
that's what this expression means a
run-in means like a meeting
but in not a planned meeting or not even
a meeting that you want to have
it's a meeting by chance so you stole
some tvs from a store
and the police caught you you didn't
mean for them to catch you you're just
not a very good thief that's why they
caught you right
but your plan was to get away but if you
run
into someone again literal meaning like
you're walking and you
bump right like you physically hit
someone
or it could be a chance meeting
you're walking down the street and your
friend is walking the other way
neither of you expected the other to be
there but oh there you are
oh hey how's it going long time no see
i'll call you we'll do coffee next week
and then you go your merry way and don't
see each other next week
because that happens a lot too so if you
run into just meet
by chance now you can also run into it
doesn't have to be a person
you can run into a situation or you can
run into uh
information that comes to you by chance
right
the main thing to remember is it's by
chance okay so let's run into
run off now again literal meaning is
just run
off means away basically you're going to
run off you're just going to leave
quickly is the main thing it's not the
same as a runaway
escape which we're going to talk about
and just run off just leave
quickly another we do also have
runoff as a noun a runoff in politics
is uh when there's not like the two
candidates
neither of the candidates got a majority
of the vote so they have to have a
second vote
but for those two candidates so let's
say there were five candidates
none of the candidates got over 50 of
the vote so the top
two will have a runoff they will have
another vote
to see which one of these two will
continue
uh into office a slang use of this
expression to run off
if somebody says like he ran off his
mouth
means he spoke a little bit too much
said things he shouldn't have said
but that's a slang meaning it's very
important about the context
so if somebody says you don't run off
your mouth that means don't
say be careful what you're saying think
before you speak
basically uh run off
uh technically if
if something like drips off you or falls
off you but like slowly
along the way like rain will run off
your jacket that's another literal
meaning
for runoff okay let's talk about run
about
or run around they essentially mean the
same thing
run around obviously has a literal
meaning you can run
around the track but otherwise run
around and about mean
to just be busy go different places do
different things
mostly chores or little tasks you have
around
or just to generally be busy so if
somebody says where's bill oh he's just
running about
doing chores he's just running around uh
meeting clients
whatever just going place to place being
busy doing that sort of things
so that's straightforward run up now run
up could be a little bit tricky
you can have it as a noun a run-up to
something
means the like leading to so for example
the oscars
the oscars like when they give awards
for movies is a big event
but the whole week before is a run-up
to the big event so they have little
events or they have interviews with
celebrities or they have
special shows or whatever so it's all
leading to
the main event if you run up to someone
literally you're running to someone to
meet them
right like you say oh there's my friend
there and you run up to them and say oh
hey how are you and blah blah blah
you can also run up a bill run up
basically means
increase so if you go to a bar and they
allow you to have a
tab a tab means that you don't have to
pay every time you buy a drink
you buy your drinks buy your drinks they
keep a record and then at the end
of the night they give you the bill so
that's a tab
so if you run up a tab means you're just
increasing the total
so every time you order a drink your
total
the total money that you owe goes up and
up so you're
running up the bill you can also run up
your electricity bill
by using uh leaving the lights on all
the time
you can run up all kinds of things
usually it's about money and it's about
a final
bill that you have to pay
um okay i think that's it for run up
let's move
now notice i put an asterisk here an
asterisk
run down run down is not
commonly used as a phrasal verb it's
more commonly used
as an adjective and it's combined as
into one word run down
if someone is run down it means that
they're very tired or very
they've a little bit worn out right
they've been working too hard
and they have bags under their eyes and
like their hair is all messy and they
they look like they can barely move so
they look run down in bad condition in
weak condition
but you can also run down like you can
run down the stairs
very uh thing you can also run down
a list so you're going through the list
you're running down the list to see
what's on the list what needs to be done
so you have a to-do list
so you just run down the list okay this
is what i have to do next okay this is
what i have to do
next
technically not commonly used but
technically you run down
means also chase somebody so somebody
you want to catch you
run after them and you run them down and
bring them down to the ground
so the police might do that but it's not
commonly used anyway
let's look at a run over you can run
over to your friend's house like
actually running over there
but more commonly it is used when a car
hits somebody so if you run over
your neighbor's foot it means you drove
over
his or her foot or you ran over
a squirrel in the street and you killed
it it happens
so especially in canada run over hit
with a car
run away basically means escape
usually you can say run away from
something now it doesn't have to be
a physical thing you can run away from
your problems or just
run from your problems means you're
trying to escape you're trying to avoid
your problems and again literal runaway
means away from somewhere you're
just running if something
runs away from you you can also say that
you have lost control
right so you let's say even a teacher
means managing a classroom
and one student starts to speak and then
another and another and basically
the the control of the class or the the
noise or the mayhem in the class has
run away from the teacher the teacher
has lost control
of the situation okay and then uh
run across run across again run across
the field to the other side
running but run across also means
discover something
so i was reading a magazine and i ran
across an article that explained why i
wasn't sleeping well at night
or i ran across a great recipe to try
out
so you discover by chance you were doing
something else
and you ran across something you found
it and it's a good thing
uh for you and last one run four
now the most common use of run four
is try to get like a political office
so every four years two people
run for president or run for the office
of the president
or every year there's an uh people try
to run for mayor run for
senator run for whatever it is you can
also
run for a particular purpose like you're
running for cover
so if it's uh let's say you're in a war
zone and bombs are falling
you're gonna run for the place that will
cover your head and protect you from the
bombs right
so run for cover is a common expression
or you can run for charity right some
people
like again literally running to make
money to give to charity to help
other people especially like
disease research kind of uh charities
okay so that's it for run pretty
straightforward i think these ones are
not too confusing like some of the other
phrasal verbs
we've come across but again if you want
to make sure you understand them
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