run into sb
— Phrasal Verb with run /rʌn/ verb (present participle running, past tense ran, past participle run)Definition
› to meet someone you know when you are not expecting to: I ran into Emma on my way home.
(Definition of run into sb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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