78 person who avoids the problem. Second, it is the objective which refers to the
persons intention to avoid or escape from the problem. Third, it is the manner which belongs to continuous action, i.e. the agents reaction towards the problems he
encountered.
4.2.2.5 Phrasal Verb RUN AWAY WITH
Alike the previous one, the next phrasal verb is added by preposition with, as to that it creates phrasal verb run away with. There are four different meanings that
the writer could find from the dictionary. First, it means „to control how one behaves
because one can no longer think in a sensible way ‟. In the sentence Dont let your
imagination run away with you, it gives clear context about one ‟s imagination. The
person who has the imagination has no intention objective to let it happen in his mind. Yet, the imagination is still wandering in his mind continuously manner.
Second, it means „to leave a place secretly or illegally with someone else‟, as
in a sentence He ran away with the bosss wife. Seen from the previous phrasal verb, it shares the same meaning with sentence They ran away to get married. Both
sentences have the same meaning semantically but the different pattern syntactically. In the semantic properties related, they also share the same properties, namely agent,
objective, manner and distance. Third, it has relationship with idea or impression. Hence, the phrasal verb run
away with is followed by idea or impression as the noun. Given the example of a sentence Dont run away with the idea that this is going to be easy, the meaning of
the phrasal verb is „to think that something is true when it is not‟. From that sentence,
the semantic properties related are agent, objective and manner. The sentence has
79 dummy subject as it is an imperative. Yet, we can still find the agent, namely you, the
objective which belongs to intended objective and the manner refers to continuous action.
Fourth, within the context of competition, this phrasal verb means „to win a
competition or sports game very easily ‟. In a sentence The Chicago Bulls ran away
with the championship, it has two semantic properties. They are agent, i.e. The Chicago Bulls and objective, i.e. intended purpose and competition.
Fifth, it means to steal something. In a sentence They found that the treasurer had run away with the proceeds, it gives context about crime. There are two semantic
properties related, i.e. the agent the treasurer and objective intended purpose for his own profit.
4.2.2.6 Phrasal Verb RUN DOWN
