English Phrasal Verbs Ultimate Collection E-Book

Daniel B. Smith

• Herausgeber: Daniel B. Smith
• Kategorie: Für Kinder und Jugendliche
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

The main objective of this book is to provide you an impressive and invaluable collection of most used English phrasal verbs with example sentences also included, so as to learn how to properly use them.
Learning the most used phrasal verbs will help you make your English sound more fluent and thus you will be able to communicate better.
Phrasal verbs are extremely common in English. They are found in a wide variety of contexts. You may have noticed them in songs, in film titles or in newspaper headlines.
It is important to remember that phrasal verbs are used when speaking informally and this book has more than 3,100 phrasal verbs for you to discover or rediscover.
I hope you find this book very useful and recommend it to your peers!
Please keep an eye on further releases.
Good luck!

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English phrasal verbs ultimate collection

-example sentences included-

Daniel B. Smith

Daniel B. Smith Copyright © 2020

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the author, excepting the case of brief quotations embodied in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law.

ENGLISH PHRASAL VERBSULTIMATE COLLECTION

-EXAMPLE SENTENCES INCLUDED-

Your quest towards C2

-3183 phrasal verbs-

Recommended for B1 and above English levels

Table of contents

Introduction

English phrasal verbs beginning with “A”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “B”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “C”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “D”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “E”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “F”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “G”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “H”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “I”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “J”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “K”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “L”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “M”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “N”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “O”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “P”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “Q”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “R”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “S”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “T”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “U”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “V”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “W”

English phrasal verbs beginning with “X, Y, Z”

Conclusion

Introduction

The main objective of this book is to provide you an impressive and invaluable collection of most used English phrasal verbs with example sentences also included, so as to learn how to properly use them.

Phrasal verbs are verbs that consist of a verb and a particle (a preposition or adverb) or a verb and two particles (an adverb and a preposition, as in get on with or look forward to). Phrasal verbs usually have a one-word equivalent.

Learning the most used phrasal verbs will help you make your English sound more fluent and thus you will be able to communicate better.

Phrasal verbs are extremely common in English. They are found in a wide variety of contexts. You may have noticed them in songs, in film titles or in newspaper headlines.

It is important to remember that phrasal verbs are used when speaking informally and this book has more than 3,100 phrasal verbs for you to discover or rediscover.

I hope you find this book very useful and recommend it to your peers!

Good luck!

English phrasal verbs beginning with “A”

e.g. Steve has to abide by what the court says.

e.g. She has to account for all the money that misses.

e.g. My girlfriend has been away for a fortnight – I am aching for her.

e.g. The police were acting on a tip and they finally caught the gang red-handed.

e.g. The medicine only acts on infected tissue.

e.g. They acted out the story on stage, which was beautiful.

e.g. Their anger is acted out in their antisocial behaviour and you can easily notice this.

e.g. My laptop is acting up; I think I might have a virus.

e.g. The army were acting upon a tip-off.

e.g. This enzyme acts upon certain proteins.

e.g. You have to add the tax on to the price they give.

e.g. They added up the bill to check if it was correct.

e.g. He explained why the project wasn’t ready, but his story doesn’t add up.

e.g. Transportation delays are getting worse and with these enormous fares, it all adds up to misery for the commuters.

e.g. The total costs of this project add up to several billion euros.

e.g. I feel terrible – that food didn’t agree with my stomach.

e.g. The magazine is aimed at the retired.

e.g. We’re aiming at reducing costs by five percent.

e.g. You should allow for risks when planning a mission.

e.g. The rules don’t allow of any exceptions.

e.g. He has been angling for an invitation, but I don’t want him to come.

e.g. Her manager was shocked when she started answering him back.

e.g. The government should be made to answer for their mistakes.

e.g. I can answer for my partner because I know his position on this matter.

e.g. The teacher tried to argue the girl down, but she couldn’t.

e.g. She argued him down fifteen percent.

e.g. They tried to argue down the proposal.

e.g. If we can’t argue our differences out, we’ll have to take them to court.

e.g. She asked about my father.

e.g. She rang earlier and asked after you, so I told her you were quite fine.

e.g. I have no idea, but I’ll ask around at work.

e.g. I asked them around for dinner.

e.g. You’re really asking for trouble.

e.g. I asked for the menu, please.

e.g. Marry is at the door. Ask her in.

e.g. He wanted to ask her out but was too shy.

e.g. They have asked us over for drinks on Saturday.

e.g. We asked Steve round for dinner.

e.g. We auctioned off our property as we were heavily in debt.

English phrasal verbs beginning with “B”

e.g. They backed away when the man pulled a knife.

e.g. She refused to back down and was eventually fired.

e.g. She prefers to back her car into the garage.

e.g. The police told the protesters to back off.

e.g. Marry backed out three days before the holiday so we gave the ticket to her sister.

e.g. She backed out of the agreement at the very last minute.

e.g. He backed the BMW out of its parking space.

e.g. You should always back up important files so that you won’t lose all your work if something goes wrong.

e.g. The rest of the staff backed her up when she complained about working conditions.

e.g. Tim backed up without looking and ran over his bicycle.

e.g. Don’t bag out her decisions. They are good.

e.g. The government had to bail out the railway company because it was losing so much money.

e.g. My boat was leaking so I had to bail it out.

e.g. The pilot and the passengers bailed out when they saw that engines had failed.

e.g. You should bail your brother out of jail.

e.g. She bailed out on him when the scandal broke.

e.g. I was late because she bailed me up on the phone and wouldn’t shut up.

e.g. She was bailed up by a mugger as she came out of the bank.

e.g. This new project has balled me up – I have no idea what to do.

e.g. Having finished eating she balled up her napkin.

e.g. Steve ballsed up the presentation.

e.g. She’s banging about in the kitchen.

e.g. I can hear him banging about in his room,

e.g. Melisa banged on for half an hour but no one was listening.

e.g. They are always banging on about cars.

e.g. She banged out the piano.

e.g. The judge banged them up for ten years.

e.g. I banged my car up last night.

e.g. I’m banking on your help!

e.g. I bargained him down to half the price.

e.g. I haven’t bargained for this epidemic.

e.g. I haven’t bargained on their bankruptcy.

e.g. She keeps barging in and asking trivial questions while I’m trying to work.

e.g. They barged into my office without knocking.

e.g. If you bash your bicycle about like that, it won’t last long.

e.g. The burglar bashed the door in to enter the house.

e.g. I bashed the draft out during the night before I had to hand it in.

e.g. The boys bashed him up in the pub fight last week.

e.g. My girlfriend bawled me out for coming home drunk.

e.g. She bawled out our names at the top of her voice.

e.g. The police are after them because of the theft.

e.g. The next bus should be along in the next minutes.

e.g. They’re away on business for two weeks.

e.g. She’s not cut out for this kind of hard work.

e.g. She was very cut up about the exam results.

e.g. He has been down since his wife left him.

e.g. The firm’s profits are down this year.

e.g. After that argument, I am down on my manager.

e.g. Steve is down with and is off work today.

e.g. I am fed up with your complaints!

e.g. She is never in. I always answer her calls.

e.g. The application form must be in by 5pm on Saturday.

e.g. The new girl was the only one who wasn’t in on the plan.

e.g. The way she’s behaving is just not on.

e.g. This strawberry yoghurt must be off; it smells awful.

e.g. I should be off now. Thank you for everything!

e.g. The laptop is on.

e.g. The concert is on for the next two hours.

e.g. She is on anti-depressants and that’s not good for her.

e.g. Steve is really on now – two goals in six minutes!

e.g. I couldn’t understand what she was on about – it made no sense to me.

e.g. They’re being very prudent because they believe the police are onto them.

e.g. She is out for a visit for the day.

e.g. I’m out of coffee so I’ll have to go and get some.

e.g. She is out to get them sacked because she hates them.

e.g. We’re completely snowed under at work because there were two months of pause.

e.g. I was taken aback when I saw her in the pub.

e.g. Marry was very taken with the movie.

e.g. He’s not up yet.

e.g. The company’s profits are up by ten percent.

e.g. Time’s up. Please leave.

e.g. Are you up for the climb of this mountain?

e.g. She’s not up to the job; get someone else.

e.g. What are those kids up to? Do you know?

e.g. She saw him in the corner and bore down on him.

e.g. The judge’s character may well bear on the final decision.

e.g. Statistics bear out the government’s positions on the issue.

e.g. How are you bearing up under the strain?

e.g. There are bearing up under the mission pressure.

e.g. Please bear with me a moment while I finish this message.

e.g. The sun was really beating down and I couldn’t stay outside anymore.

e.g. I managed to beat the seller down to ten euros.

e.g. The marathon runner scarcely beat out his rival.

e.g. The mugger beat her up and stole her purse.

e.g. They are beavering away before the exam.

e.g. I have to beaver away at the project or else I will fail.

e.g. I had to bed down on the floor that night.

e.g. The new government has found it hard to bed down and become accepted.

e.g. When the weather warmed up she bedded the plants out.

e.g. The company beefed up their assets.

e.g. I think she belongs to a secret society.

e.g. Their idea belongs to the nineteenth century.

e.g. Does this DVD belong with those on the shelf?

e.g. They belted out the national anthems before the football game.

e.g. The teacher told the students to belt up.

e.g. He told the kids to belt up before the bus started.

e.g. She bent down to pick something up off the floor.

e.g. I bent over to do my shoes up.

e.g. I bent over backwards for her and she isn’t grateful.

e.g. She bigs herself up all the time.

e.g. They work out a lot to big themselves up.

e.g. She clearly bitched up the interview.

e.g. All of a sudden she blacked out.

e.g. Everything blacked out when the power supply failed.

e.g. The phone numbers were blanked out in the documents shown to the court.

e.g. I was so nervous in the interview that I just blanked out.

e.g. The music was blaring out and I couldn’t fall asleep.

e.g. The space shuttle blasted off on schedule.

e.g. The shooter blazed away at the wild duck.

e.g. They bled out their hens.

e.g. I blissed out on the beach all day long.

e.g. I couldn’t use my car in the morning because someone had blocked it in.

e.g. She blocked in the events in her calendar.

e.g. The police blocked off the city.

e.g. These trees block out the sun most of the day.

e.g. It was so unpleasant that I try to block it out.

e.g. The pipe’s blocked up and no water gets through.

e.g. He grabbed a gun and blew the thief away.

e.g. Their new product has blown all the other away.

e.g. His latest novel blew me away.

e.g. The flag blew away in the storm.

e.g. Some trees were blown down in the storm.

e.g. He blew in from Italy this morning.

e.g. We were going to meet last night, but she blew me off at the very last minute.

e.g. I blew the project off.

e.g. He blew off in front of everybody. What a shame!

e.g. The little boy blew the candles out on his birthday cake.

e.g. They blew our team out.

e.g. The scandal blew over within a couple of weeks when the press found someone else to attack.

e.g. The bombs blew up without any warning.

e.g. The type pressure was low, so I blew it up.

e.g. Can you blow up the photo so we can see his face?

e.g. A storm blew up while we were out walking.

e.g. She blew up when she heard what I had done wrong.

e.g. I was really angry when she blurted out our secret.

e.g. I board my cat out when I leave town.

e.g. We decided to board up all the windows to stop people getting into the empty house.

e.g. I got bogged down in my research and didn’t finish the treatment on time.

e.g. As we were starving, we bogged in the food.

e.g. They bogged into the lunch.

e.g. I don’t want to hear you anymore. Bog off!

e.g. This report needs to be boiled down.

e.g. In the end, it all boils down to money.

e.g. I forgot the milk on the cooker and it boiled over.

e.g. The tension had been building up and it boiled over in the meeting.

e.g. The anger boiled up in me when I saw what she had done.

e.g. She boiled up some water for two cups of coffee.

e.g. We were all scared but the commanding officer bolstered up our courage.

e.g. I will have to bone up to get a good mark.

e.g. I need to bone up on my English grammar for the exam.

e.g. I’ll book us in at this hotel.

e.g. I took a bus from the airport to the hotel and booked in.

e.g. I’ve booked us into a hotel downtown.

e.g. The lovers booked into the first hotel they could find.

e.g. I the people arriving. Let’s book out!

e.g. The flight is fully booked up. I’m sorry.

e.g. They booted up the computer and started work.

e.g. France borders on Germany.

e.g. What she did was bordering on betrayal.

e.g. The new manager bosses everyone about.

e.g. The old manager used to boss around everybody.

e.g. Unfortunately, I botched up the whole project.

e.g. He kept his feelings bottled away.

e.g. Maria intended to tell her boss exactly what she thought, but bottled out in the end.

e.g. Brian decided to bottle up his feelings even though he was furious.

e.g. The SARS-CoV-2 recession bottomed out and the economy is recovering well.

e.g. The economy is bouncing back from the recession.

e.g. Three days ago, we bounced ideas off in a brainstorm session.

e.g. Tom bowled the other player out first ball.

e.g. I was bowled over by the latest news.

e.g. The little boy was bowled over by the crowd rushing out.

e.g. My car was boxed in by the bus.

e.g. At the end of the project, I boxed my articles up and sent them home.

e.g. Brace up and stop worrying!

e.g. The local entrepreneurs have branched out into banking.

e.g. They broke away from the Socialist Party.

e.g. The talks between management and employees broke down.

e.g. She broke down in tears.

e.g. My car has broken down, so I came by bus.

e.g. She had to break down their opposition to her ideas.

e.g. The burglars broke in and stole the laptop.

e.g. I’m sorry to break in on your dialogue, but there’s a big problem.

e.g. It took ages to break that horse in.

e.g. I must watch my speed until I break in my new Audi.

e.g. The little girl broke off a square of chocolate and have it to her cousin.

e.g. She decided to break off their engagement.

e.g. They are worried that war will break out.

e.g. The measles caused her to break out in a rash.

e.g. Three dangerous prisoners broke out of prison last night.

e.g. The crowd broke through the barriers and attacked the animals.

e.g. The plate broke up when I dropped it on the floor.

e.g. Faculties break up at the end of July.

e.g. We had been going out for some year before we broke up.

e.g. You’re breaking up; I’ll call you back in a few minutes.

e.g. The swan breezes along the lake.

e.g. The man breezed in and started shouting at us.

e.g. She breezed into the room and shut the TV off.

e.g. They breezed through their exams.

e.g. I bricked in the window.

e.g. They bricked the back entrance up.

e.g. The day started cloudy but brightened up during afternoon.

e.g. He brightened up when she told him the truth.

e.g. We tried to brighten the room up by paining it.

e.g. We didn’t bring up the subject at the meeting.

e.g. I consider that my parents brought me up strictly.

e.g. He was brought up on charges of mass murder.

e.g. The manager brushed off the criticism.

e.g. He took a three-week course to brush up his English.

e.g. They bubbled over when they heard the results.

e.g. Buck up! The taxi is waiting for us.

e.g. You should buck up your ideas on this project.

e.g. You should take an umbrella; it’s bucketing down.

e.g. I had to buckle down again and study for the admission exam.

e.g. I didn’t like the idea, but I had to buckle under.

e.g. Everyone is told to buckled up before take-off.

e.g. I budged up to let the fourth person in the back of the car.

e.g. The watch looked amazing after I buffed it up.

e.g. After the scandal, the President tried to buff up his public image.

e.g. I buffed up on my grammar skills.

e.g. I told the little boy to bug off.

e.g. He bugged out when Marry turned up.

e.g. They bugged out when the army arrived.

e.g. They built the business up from nothing.

e.g. Tension has built up since they passed that law.

e.g. I bulked the presentation out with a few quotes to reach the number of required lines.

e.g. Brian bulked up a lot since he got steroids.

e.g. I bumped into David yesterday.

e.g. The drug dealer was bumped off by police.

e.g. They always bump up prices in summer.

e.g. We bundled the kids off to bed.

e.g. The barman bundled the drunk man out.

e.g. We bundled up before going out as it was heavily snowing.

e.g. I bundled up my drafts and dropped them in the bin.

e.g. I used to bunk off school and go into town with my colleagues.

e.g. The positive review buoyed her up.

e.g. The lifejacket buoyed me up till the rescue boat arrived.

e.g. We had to completely rebuild the house after the old one burned down.

e.g. I burn off a lot of calories by running.

e.g. Jane burnt out after twelve years working as a nurse.

e.g. All my possessions were burned up in the fire.

e.g. The racers burned up the roads but were soon arrested.

e.g. His undeserved awards really burns me up.

e.g. The truck burst into flames and the driver narrowly escaped.

e.g. She burst into laughter when she heard the jokes.

e.g. They bust up after a tremendous row last night.

e.g. I hope you don’t mind me butting in. I need to speak to you.

e.g. This is not your fight so just butt out!

e.g. I don’t like to be buttered up.

e.g. Her awful hit was probably bought in at number 40.

e.g. I never bought into her ideas.