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Phrasal Verbs Flashcards

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Ask many people the same question

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Ask around or add up to something

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Invite on a date

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Ask someone out

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Support

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Back someone up

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Add air

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Blow something up

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Stop functioning

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Break down

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Get upset

The women …. When the police told her that her son had died

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Break down

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Force entry to a building

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Break in

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Enter forcibly

The firemen has to … The room to rescue the children

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Break into

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Interrumpt

The tv station…. To report the news of the president death

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Break in

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End a relationship

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Break up

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Escape

The prisioners … Of jail

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Break out

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Make unhappy

This sad music …

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Bring someone down

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Vomit

He drank so much that he …… Is dinner

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Bring something up

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Return a phone call

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Call someone back

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Cancel

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Call something off

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Ask for an answer or opinion

The orofessor … Me for question one

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Call on someone

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Visit someone

We … You last night but you weren’t home

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Call on someone

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Relax after being angry

You need to … before you drive the car

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Calm down

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Not like (formal) 
I ..... his behaviour
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Not care for something or someone

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Leave a hotel

You have to … before 11am

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Check out

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Look at (informal)
... the crazy hair on that gay!
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Check out something or someone

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Make happier

I brought you some flowers to …

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Cheer someone up

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Tidy, clean

Please, … your bedroom

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Clean something up

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Become sick

My son … flu this weekend

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Come down with something

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Consume less

My doctor wants me to … sweets and fatty foods

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Cut back on something

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Do again

My teacher wants me … The essay bc she doesn’t like my topic

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Do something over

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Not tell

We .. Pur relation from our parents for five years

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Keep something from someone

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Continue at the same rate

If you … Those results you will get into a great college

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Keep something up

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Allow to enter

Can you … The cat .. Before you go to school?

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Let someone in

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Have none left

We … Of shampoo so I had to wash my hair with soap

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Run out

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Arrange, organize

Our boss … With the president of the company

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Set something up

Ou boss set a meeting up with the president of the company

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Compare prices

I want to … A little before i decide on these boots

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Shop arround

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Stay somewhere for night (informal)

You should … tonight if the weather is too bad to drive home

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Sleep over

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Start to fly

My plane … in five minutes

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Take off

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Appear suddenly

My cat … after we called the police

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Turn up

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Increase the temperature

You can … In front of the fireplace

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Warm someone pr something up

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Prepare you body for exercise

I always … by doing sit-ups before I go for a run

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Warm up

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Exercise

I … at the gym three times a week

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Work out

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Be succesful

Ou plan … fine

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Work out

39
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Make a calculation

We have to … the total cost before we buy the house

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Work something out

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Remove something (clothes)
... you socks and come in the lake!
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Take something off

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Remember

When I … On my youth, I wish I had studied harder

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Think back

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Continue doing something, limit yourself to one particular thing

You will lose weight of you … the diet

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Stick to something

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Tolerate

I do not think I can … Three small children in the car

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Put up with something or someone

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Meet unexpectedly

I … an old school-friend at the mall

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Run into someone or something

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