This grammar exercise tests your ability to use phrasal verbs with run. Each sentence given below contains an incomplete phrasal verb. Complete the expression by supplying an appropriate preposition or an adverb particle.
Answers
1. Can you get some sugar from the shop? We have run out.
2. This car runs on petrol.
3. The boy ran away from home because he had no one to love him there.
4. Cancer runs in his family. Both his parents died of it.
5. The police constable ran after the thief but he could not catch him.
6. When we were kids we would spend the entire afternoon running around the neighborhood.
7. I want to run for President.
8. I ran into an old friend of mine yesterday.
9. Can you run off hundred copies of this document?
10. I ran over a dog while driving home from work.
11. He has run up a huge debt on his credit cards.
12. He ran through the presentation one more time to ensure that everything is perfect.
