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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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be out, be run out?

I konow that I can say: they might be out of.......... but can I also say: They might be run out of..........?



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If you want to say that they no longer have something (milk, for example) because they've used or sold all that they had, you can say these:

"They might be out of (milk)."
"They might have run out of (milk)."
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