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41 Cards in this Set
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Look after |
To take care of; to keep something healthy, safe, or in a good condition. |
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Look for |
To search for |
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Look forward to |
To anticipate |
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Look into |
To find out about something; to investigate |
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Look through |
To read (often quickly) |
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Look up |
To find a word in a dictionary/a phone number in a directory |
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Break down |
To stop working (train, car, etc. ), To lose control of feelings (in tears, etc. ) |
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Break into something /break in |
To enter by force |
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Break up |
To end a relationship |
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Bring forward |
To introduce / present an argument or proposal for consideration |
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Bring in |
Introduce a law or a rule, To take somebody to the police station for questioning |
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Bring up |
To rise a child, to mention a subject. |
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Get away |
To depart, To escape from danger. |
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Get away with |
To do something wrong without punishment |
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Get by |
To manage |
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Get on or get on with |
To start or continue doing something |
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Get over |
To recover from an illness or injury |
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Get up |
To rise from bed |
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Turn back |
To stop and go back in the way you came |
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Turn down |
To refuse a request or an offer, To reduce the amount of sound or heat. |
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Turn into |
To change and become something else |
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Turn off |
To stop (tv, heater, light, etc) from working |
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Turn on |
To start (tv, heater, light, etc) working |
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Turn out |
To prove to be something, To appear, be present |
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Turn up |
To arrive somewhere, To increase the amount of sound or heat. |
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Give away |
To reveal something, To give something for free |
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Give in |
To surrender |
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Give out |
To hand out, To stop working |
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Give up |
To stop doing something |
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Set about |
To begin to do |
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Set aside |
To safe for special purpose or occasion |
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Set back |
To delay |
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Set off or set out |
To start a journey |
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Set up |
To build, erect something, To start something example business, To arrange something example a meeting |
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Be/ get carried away |
To be very excited |
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Carry on |
To continue doing something |
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Carry out |
To follow introductions, orders, etc. |
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Carry over |
To let something continue into a new situation |
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Carry through |
To complete something successfully. To survive. To enable to endure |
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Hold on |
To wait for a short time |
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Hold up |
To make somebody wait or delay somebody To Rob a bank |
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