run into

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run someone or something into something and run someone or something in

to take or drive someone or something into something or some place. Let me run you into the city this morning. I need the car today. Do you want to go to town? I have to run in George and you can come along.

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run into someone or something

to bump into someone or something. I didn't mean to run into you. I'm sorry. Mary ran into the fence and scraped her elbow.

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run into somebody

to meet someone by chance I ran into Mike on Seventh Avenue.

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run into something

1. to experience something unexpectedly, esp. something unpleasant The center ran into some financial trouble and had to borrow money.

2. also run to something to cost or reach a certain amount Their salaries run into thousands per week. Costs on the project ran to the millions.

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We run into the Cock, and every one who comes in within a quarter of an hour of the hares'll be counted, if he has been round Barby church. Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context When our master's carriage was overturned, before you came here, it was said that if the lamp on the left side had not gone out, John would have seen the great hole that the road-makers had left; and so he might, but if old Colin had not had blinkers on he would have seen it, lamp or no lamp, for he was far too knowing an old horse to run into danger. Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context It was getting pretty dim by the time we turned the corner of the woods, sweating and panting with that long run, and see the sycamores thirty yards ahead of us; and just then we see a couple of men run into the bunch and heard two or three terrible screams for help. Tom Sawyer Detective by Twain, Mark View in context More results

? References in classic literature

We run into the Cock, and every one who comes in within a quarter of an hour of the hares'll be counted, if he has been round Barby church.

Tom Brown's Schooldays by Hughes, Thomas View in context

When our master's carriage was overturned, before you came here, it was said that if the lamp on the left side had not gone out, John would have seen the great hole that the road-makers had left; and so he might, but if old Colin had not had blinkers on he would have seen it, lamp or no lamp, for he was far too knowing an old horse to run into danger.

Black Beauty by Sewell, Anna View in context

It was getting pretty dim by the time we turned the corner of the woods, sweating and panting with that long run, and see the sycamores thirty yards ahead of us; and just then we see a couple of men run into the bunch and heard two or three terrible screams for help.

Tom Sawyer Detective by Twain, Mark View in context

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