Phrasal-Prepositional Verbs — Run Out Of & the Depletion Family (C1)

By Wednesday lunchtime the conference organisers had run of coffee, and a fresh urn had to be brought up from the kitchen on the floor below. (one word)

On the seventh day of the crossing, with the ship still some distance from port, the captain noted in the log that they were running on fresh water. (one word)

The defending champion began to run of ideas in the second set and made several unforced errors in quick succession on her own serve. (one word)

Time is fast running for the government to publish the long-promised review before the start of the new parliamentary term in October. (one word)

Within twenty minutes of the goalkeeper limping off, the home side had visibly run out ideas and were content to play out the remaining time with three defenders parked on the edge of the box. (one word)

When the more ambitious overseas expansion plan was shelved by the new chief executive, the company quietly fell on the regional growth strategy it had drawn up three years earlier. (one word)

Acting on a strong recommendation from her GP after a routine blood test, Beatrice has been trying to cut on salt, refined sugar and red meat over the last six months. (one word)

Faced with three consecutive quarters of falling revenue, the publisher has had to cut on freelance commissions and to defer several long-planned print investments. (one word)

While she was a postgraduate student in Edinburgh, Helena had to get on around six hundred pounds a month and shared a small flat with two friends from her course. (one word)

By the start of the third day in the mountain hut, the group was to its last two packets of dried noodles and the boil-in-the-bag emergency ration. (one word — three letters)

The kitchen was still missing two of its planned ovens, so the head chef had to make with a single domestic-sized appliance for the soft-launch evening. (one word — two letters)

The unexpected boiler repair in February forced the couple to dip the savings they had been quietly accumulating for the deposit on their first house. (one word — four letters)

The persistent rise in energy costs over the last eighteen months has steadily eaten the margins of nearly every independent restaurant in the city centre. (one word — four letters)

For the first six months after he left the bank, Edward lived his redundancy payout while he worked out what he actually wanted to do next with his career. (one word — three letters)

The two failed product launches in the autumn had burned almost half of the funding round raised earlier in the year, with very little to show for it. (one word — seven letters)