prhrasel verbs Flashcards

1
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to ask for news about someone

A

ask after

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2
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to stop asking for something/stop saying that you will do something

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back down

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3
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to decide not to do something you agreed to do

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back out

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4
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to depend on something happening/someone

A

bank on

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5
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to move the top part of your body forwards and downwards

A

bend down

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6
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stop working (machine)

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break down

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7
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to escape from a prison

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break out

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8
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to change the data earlier

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bring forward

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9
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to introduce smth new (system)

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bring in

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10
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to be the cause of smth bad

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bring on

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11
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to introduce a new product

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bring out

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12
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to look after a child

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bring up

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13
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to start discussing

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bring up

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14
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to decide to stop smth that is planned or is already happening

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call off

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15
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to continue doing smth/search

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carry on

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16
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to become popular/fashionable or to understand

17
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to follow smth quickly

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chase after

18
Q

to stop doing business

A

close down

19
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happen regularly/visit someone/to give or show every person in a particular place

A

come (a)round

20
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to change your opinion or decision/to become conscious

A

come (a)round to

21
Q

to find smth/someone by chance

A

come across

22
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to get something hardly

23
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to become ill (not serious)

A

come down with

24
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to offer help or information

A

come forward

25
to get an inheritance
come into
26
to succeed
come off
27
to develop/to srart to be broadcast
come on
28
to think of smth
come up with
29
to draw an X
cross out
30
to start doing less of smth
cut down on
31
to stop supply/working
cut off
32
to make a place difficult to enter/leave/communicate with
cut off
33
realize smth for the first time
dawn on