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run into someone to meet someone by chance. I ran into Mike on Seventh Avenue. See also: run run into something 1. to experience something unexpectedly, esp. something unpleasant. The center ran into some financial trouble and had to borrow money. 2. to cost or reach a certain amount. Their salaries run into thousands per week. Costs on the project ran to the millions. See also: run |
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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. 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. 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. |
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