ADJ
five-mile, etc. fun, sponsored The local council has organized a two-mile fun run for charity training record-breaking The Ethiopian is aiming to produce his second record-breaking run of the week
VERB + RUN
go for, have Let's go for a run before dinner go on I'm going on a sponsored run tomorrow break into When he saw me he broke into a run take He took a run at the wall and just managed to clear it
PREP
at a ~ She took the stairs at a run on the ~ (= escaping by running) The prisoners have now been on the run for three days
PHRASES
make a run for it (= escape by running)
ADJ
bad, disappointing, disastrous, dismal, poor excellent, fine, good, remarkable, successful unbeaten, winning record-breaking
VERB + RUN
enjoy, have Spurs have had a winning run of ten games begin end Manchester United have finally ended their run of victories
PREP
~ of a run of good/bad luck
ADJ
long short eight-week, six-month, etc. successful sell-out
VERB + RUN
have The play had a long run in the West End begin They play began its run last June end
ADJ
common, general, ordinary, usual She was very different from the general run of American movie stars. In the normal run of things the only exercise he gets is climbing in and out of taxis
PHRASES
against the run of play Villa scored in the 15th minute against the run of play (= although the other team had seemed more likely to score)
VERB + RUN
get, make, score They've got another run! He's only made four home runs all season be on, have Our team is on 90 runs
ADJ
dry, dummy, practice, trial
ADV
fast, quickly John can run very fast. She ran quickly downstairs blindly headlong away, downstairs, home, off, out, upstairs
VERB + RUN
begin to, turn and/to want to He just wanted to run away and hide
PREP
down She turned and ran blindly down the street into He ran headlong into an enemy patrol out of He ran out of the house to, towards, up, etc.
ADV
efficiently, properly, well badly a badly-run company professionally jointly The programme will be jointly run with NASA in the US personally privately independently The student union is run independently of college authorities in parallel, in tandem The two experiments are run in parallel
VERB + RUN
try to Stop trying to run my life for me manage to help (to), help sb (to)
ADV
efficiently, smoothly The engine was running very smoothly
PREP
on Our car only runs on unleaded petrol
ADV
smoothly Things ran very smoothly for a while concurrently, consecutively He was given two twelve-month sentences to run concurrently
ADV
regularly Local buses run regularly to and from the town late The train was running late, as usual