Phrasal verbs

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pick up (a bargain)
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buy something (cheap)
Push something up
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Make something increase
Put on (an event)
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Organise an event
Put prices up
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Increase prices
Put someone off
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Distract someone
Put something off something
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Discourage someone
Put someone up (for a night)
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Accommodate someone
Put something off
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Postpone something
Put something together
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Combine several things to produce something
Put something/music on
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Make something be ready to listen to
Put up with something/someone
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Tolerate
Put on weight
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Gain weight
Run into (tousand of pounds)
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Reach a particular amount
Set off for somewhere
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Start going somewhere
Set up (a business)
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Start (a business)
Set up home
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Begin living in a place
Settle down
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Feel comfortable and live quietly in a place you want to stay permanently
Show off
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Act in a way to attract someone’s attention
Sign up for something
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Agree to do
Sort out a problem
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solve a problem
Split up with somebody
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End a romantic relationship
Stand out
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Be unique, easy to notice
Take after someone
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Resemble
Take off
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Start to become successful
Take over
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Gain control
Take someone aside
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Move someone away from a group of people to talk
Take someone on
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Employ someone
Take something back
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Return something
Take something in
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Accept something as true
Take to something/someone
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Start to like something
Take up a new hobby
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Start doing a new hobby
Tell someone off
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Criticise someone angrily for doing something wrong
Turn out
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Go somewhere to take part in an event
Turn out (well/badly)
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End (well/badly)
Turn something down
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Reject something
Turn something into
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change something into something different
Turn to someone
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Ask for help
Turn up
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Arrive
Work something out
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Manage to deal with something
Back something up
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To support an explanation
Bolt something down
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Eat something very quickly
Bring someone up
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Take care of a child until they become an adult
Bring something about
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cause
carry on doing something
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continue
carry out something
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do work or research
catch on
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become popular
catch on
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begin to understand
catch up on something
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gain a knowledge that the rest of a group has
cheer up
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make someone less sad
come across something/someone
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find/meet someone by a chance
come over
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visit someone especially in their house
come up with something
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think of
draw something up
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to prepare and write a plan
Fall out with someone
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Stop being friendly with someone after an argument
find something out
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discover
Get about (a place)
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travel around
Get away with something
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Manage to do something bad without being criticised or punished
Get by
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Manage to survive/live
Get on with someone
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Have a friendly relationship
Get over something
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Recover from
Give away information
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tell the information that should have been kept a secret
Give homework in
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Hand homework to the teacher
Give in
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To agree to something after initial resistance
Give oneself up
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Allow to be arrested
Give out (books/papers)
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Distribute something to several people
Give out information
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give information to a lot of people
Go in for
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enter (a competition)
Go on
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happen/continue
Go round
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visit a person or place
Gulp something down
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drink something very quickly
Head for somewhere
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go somewhere
hit it off with someone
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start to like someone on the first meeting
Kick someone out
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Force someone to leave a place
Let someone down
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disappoint
Look forward to something
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Feel happy about something that is going to happen
Look up to someone
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admire and respect
Make something up
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invent an explanation for something
make up one’s mind
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decide
move on to something
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stop discussing something and start discussing something different
Open up to someone
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Talk more about personal feelings
Own up to something
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Confess that you have done something wrong

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