The rock ran against the hull.
The ship ran aground.
The captain ran off.
A very big bill was run up.
run
She ran up on him without him seeing.
Ran him over with her shiny red steam roller.
Then, just to be sure, ran him through with a sword.
He wouldn’t be running out on her again.
He was feeling very run down.
The boss kept running him down.
He still had many clients to run down.
He never saw the lorry that ran him down.
run down – tired, criticise, find, hit with a vehicle
They ran up against many problems,
running up an enormous bill.
They ran over the plans again
but they had run out of ideas.
The cat ran after a mouse.
A car ran the mouse down. Splat!
Then the cat ran into a dog
which ran after the cat.