1.
If you ~ problems or difficulties, you unexpectedly begin to experience them.
They agreed to sell last year after they ran into financial problems...
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)
2.
If you ~ someone, you meet them unexpectedly.
He ran into Krettner in the corridor a few minutes later.
= meet, bump into
PHRASAL VERB: V P n
3.
If a vehicle runs into something, it accidentally hits it.
The driver failed to negotiate a bend and ran into a tree.
PHRASAL VERB: V P n
4.
You use ~ when indicating that the cost or amount of something is very great.
He said companies should face punitive civil penalties running into millions of pounds.
PHRASAL VERB: V P amount