Learn English Phrasal Verbs through Stories

• Run out (of time)

Meaning: Use up or finish a supply of something

Eg: We ran out of fuel.

• Come up (with an answer)

Meaning: To be mentioned and need to be considered

Eg: A number of interesting points came up at today’s meeting.

• Going through (a divorce)

Meaning: To experience or suffer something

Eg: She’s been going through a bad patch recently.

• Bring (this problem) up

Meaning: To mention a subject or start to talk about it

Eg: Bring it up at the meeting.

• Looking forward to (university life)

Meaning: To be thinking with pleasure about something that is going to happen (because you expect to enjoy it)

Eg: I’m looking forward to the weekend.

• Live up (to my expectations)

Meaning: To do as well as or be as good as other people expect you to

Eg: He failed to live up to his parents’ expectations.

• Put up (with a boring routine)

Meaning: To build something or place something somewhere

Eg: Residents have put up a great fight against plans to build a new road.

• Taken aback

Meaning: To shock or surprise somebody very much

Eg: I must admit that I was taken aback when I heard we weren’t receiving ourbonuses this year.

• Getting by (on a teacher’s salary)

Meaning: To manage to live or do a particular thing using the money, knowledge, equipment, etc. that you have

Eg: How does she get by on such a small salary?

• Turned out (fine)

Meaning: To happen in a particular way; to develop or end in a particular way

Eg: Despite our worries everything turned out well.

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