Phrasal verbs

Question 1

if people …, they form a group or a small crowd around something or someone.

Answer 1

to gather around

Question 2

to communicate something or make something understood by others

Answer 2

to get across

Question 3

If you …, you make progress in your career.

Answer 3

to get ahead

Question 4

If two people …, they like each other and are friendly.

Answer 4

to get along

Question 5

to move from place to place

Answer 5

to get around

Question 6

to find a way of avoiding something

Answer 6

to get around

Question 7

to get hold of something (mettre la main sur qqc)

Answer 7

to get at

ex: the valve is hard to get at unless you have a special tool./the committee finally got at the main issue

Question 8

to mean or to imply smth

Answer 8

to get at

ex: I don’t understand what he’s getting at

Question 9

to leave a place

Answer 9

to get away

Question 10

to do something illegal or immoral and not get caught or punished

Answer 10

to get away with

ex: He got away with doing illegal things.

Question 11

to return to a place

Answer 11

to get back

Question 12

If you … something …, it is returned to you after you’ve lent it, lost it, or had it stolen

Answer 12

to get back

Question 13

to have just enough of something, like money, knowledge or skills, to do what you want to do

Answer 13

to get by

ex: How can he get by on so little money?

Question 14

to move close to the ground, or to move from a higher position to a lower position

Answer 14

to get down

Question 15

to quickly write something, often so as not to forget it

Answer 15

to get down

Question 16

to manage to swallow something that isn’t easy to swallow

Answer 16

to get down

ex: let’s get down to business

Question 17

to enter a place or a vehicle

Answer 17

to get in

Question 18

If a train or plane …., it arrives at its destination.

Answer 18

to get in

Question 19

to submit or send something like a document, a form or a report

Answer 19

to get in

Question 20

If you … something like a university, a team, a club, etc., you have succeeded in joining it.

Answer 20

to get into

Question 21

to become interested in something or focussed on something

Answer 21

to get into

Question 22

to leave a means of transport such as a bus or a train

Answer 22

to get off

Question 23

to finish work, or have a break from work

Answer 23

to get off

Question 24

to step onto a bus, train, ship, etc.

Answer 24

to get on

Question 25

If two people …, they have a good relationship and are friendly.

Answer 25

to get on

Question 26

to move out of an enclosed space, such as a building or a car

Answer 26

to get out

Question 27

If you … something …, you remove it from whatever it’s in.

Answer 27

to get out

Question 28

If you … doing something that you don’t want to do, you find a way to avoid doing it, such as by making up an excuse.

Answer 28

to get out of

ex: I didn’t want to go to the lecture, but I couldn’t get out of it

Question 29

to take off clothes because they’re uncomfortable or inappropriate

Answer 29

to get out of

Question 30

to recover from something like an illness or a shock

Answer 30

to get over

Question 31

to produce an unfortunate effect on

to criticize insitently

Answer 31

to get on
ex: the noise got on my nerves
the fans got on him for losing the game

Question 32

to complete a task

Answer 32

to get through

Question 33

if you … something, you use or eat all of it (UK-AUS)

Answer 33

to get through

Question 34

to reach the person you want to talk when making a telephone call

Answer 34

to get through

Question 35

to meet and spend time together

Answer 35

to get together

Question 36

to get out of bed after having been asleep

Answer 36

to get up

Question 37

to stand up or to get to one’s feet

Answer 37

to get up

Question 38

If you … something, you give it to someone without expecting anything in return.

Answer 38

to give away

Question 39

If you … something …, you return it to whoever you got it from.

Answer 39

to give back

Question 40

If somebody …, they stop trying to do something like win a game, a fight or an argument.

Answer 40

to give in

ex:he gave in to my suggestion after I had shown him the plans

Question 41

to produce something like a smell, a gas, heat or light

Answer 41

to give off

ex: they give off dangerous radiation

Question 42

If you … something …, you distribute it to many people, usually by hand.

Answer 42

to give out

Question 43

If you …, you stop trying to do something because it’s too hard or because it can’t be done or it’s bad for you.

Answer 43

to give up

Question 44

to do something in a certain way, or to deal with something in a certain way

Answer 44

to go about

ex: the way we went about things was fine

Question 45

to chase and try to catch someone or something

Answer 45

to go after

Question 46

to try to get something (informal)

Answer 46

to go after

Question 47

to oppose, or disagree with, something or somebody

Answer 47

to go against

Question 48

to start doing something, or to continue doing something, usually after being given permission or encouragement to do so

Answer 48

to go ahead

Question 49

to agree with someone or to support something

Answer 49

to go along with

Question 50

to act or dress in a certain way

Answer 50

to go around

ex: he used to go around in jeans

Question 51

to be enough for everyone

Answer 51

to go around

ex:there wasn’t enough cake to go around

Question 52

to leave or go to another place

Answer 52

to go away

Question 53

to stop existing, or to stop being noticeable

Answer 53

to go away

Question 54

to return to a place, a person, a condition etc

Answer 54

to go back

Question 55

to be more than, better than, more advanced than etc

Answer 55

to go beyond

Question 56

to move past (in space), or pass (in time)

Answer 56

to go by

ex: time seems to go by more quickly/people are going by in the park

Question 57

to become less

Answer 57

to go down

Question 58

to be received in a certain way, or to create a certain reaction

Answer 58

to go down

ex: I think your speech went down really well.

Question 59

When the sun or the moon …, it gets lower and lower in the sky until it disappears below the horizon.

Answer 59

to go down

Question 60

to be remembered or recorded in some way

Answer 60

to go down

ex:The Beatles will go down in the record books as the best-selling group of the sixties.

Question 61

to try to get something or achieve something ‘(informal)

Answer 61

to go for

Question 62

to like a particular type of person, product, style, experience, etc.

Answer 62

to go for

Question 63

to physically attack a person or an animal

Answer 63

to go for

Question 64

to be sold for a certain amount of money

Answer 64

to go for

Question 65

to talk about or discuss something in detail

Answer 65

to go into

Question 66

If something …. , it stops working because of a power cut.

Answer 66

to go off

Question 67

If a bomb or a firework …, it explodes.

Answer 67

to go off

Question 68

If foods or drinks …, they go bad and aren’t safe to eat or drink. (UK-AUS)

Answer 68

to go off

Question 69

to happen

Answer 69

to go on

Question 70

to keep happening as before, or to keep doing something

Answer 70

to go on

Question 71

If something like a light or a heater …, it starts operating.

Answer 71

to go on

Question 72

to talk for too long, or talk in such a way that it annoys or bores people

Answer 72

to go on

Question 73

used when encouraging someone to do something

Answer 73

go on

Question 74

to leave your home and go somewhere for enjoyment or entertainment

Answer 74

to go out

Question 75

to look carefully at something like a report, essay, document, etc. to check for mistakes or to make improvements

Answer 75

to go over

Question 76

to review something, or look at it again, in order to learn or memorize it

Answer 76

to go over

Question 77

to cause a reaction of some sort, especially from an audience

Answer 77

to go over

Question 78

to look through a collection of things like documents, books, clothes, etc. to find something or to sort them out

Answer 78

to go through

Question 79

to live through a bad time or a difficult situation

Answer 79

to go through

Question 80

If two things …., they look good together or they harmonize.

Answer 80

to go together

Question 81

to happen together, or to often occur at the same time

Answer 81

to go together

Question 82

If a company …, it goes out of business and closes down.

Answer 82

to go under

Question 83

If something like a price or a rate…, it becomes higher.

Answer 83

to go up

Question 84

If one thing … another, they look good together or seems to work well together.

Answer 84

to go with

Question 85

to not have something that you used to have because conditions have changed and it’s no longer available or affordable

Answer 85

to go without

ex: Most of us will have to go without luxuries like expensive jewellery