Sunday, March 15, 2009

Phrasal Verbs with 'B"

Bail (4)

Bail out
- Save, rescue
- Remove water from something that is flooded
- Jump out of a plane because it is going to crash
Bail out of
- Pay a bond to release someone from jail
Bail out on
- Stop supporting someone when they are in trouble
Bail up
- Talk to someone and delay them
- Rob someone at gunpoint

Phrasal Verbs beginning with 'B'

Back (7)

Back away
- Retreat or go backwards
Back down
- Retract or withdraw your position or proposal in an argument
Back into
- Enter a parking area in reverse gear
Back off
- Retreat
Back out
- Fail to keep an arrangement or promise
Back out of
- Fail to keep an agreement, arrangement
- Exit a parking area in reverse gear
Back up
- Make a copy of computer data
- Support
- Drive a vehicle backwards

Monday, March 9, 2009

Phrasal Verbs beginning with 'A'

Account (1)

Account for
- To explain

Ache (1)

Ache for
- Want something or someone a lot

Act (3)

Act on
- To take action because of something like information received
Act out
- Perform something with actions and gestures.
- Express an emotion in your behaviour
Act up
- Behave badly or strangely

Add (3)

Add on
- Include in a calculation
Add up
- To make a mathematical total
- Be a satisfactory explanantion for something
Add up to
- Have a certain result

Aim (1)

Aim at
- To target

Allow (1)

Allow for
- Include something in a plan or calculation

Angle (1)

Angle for
- Try to get something indirectly, by hinting or suggesting

Answer (2)

Answer back
- To reply rudely to someone in authority
Answer for
- Be held responsible for a problem
- Speak on behalf of someone or from knowing them

Argue (1)

Argue out
- Argue about a problem to find a solution

Ask (7)

Ask after
- Enquire about someone's health, how life is going
Ask around
- Ask a number of people for information of help
- Invite someone
Ask for
- To provoke a negative reaction
- Request to have or be given
Ask in
- To invite somebody into your house
Ask out
- To invite someone for a date
Ask over
- Invite
Ask round
- Invite someone

Auction (1)

Auction off
- Sell something in an auction