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Prepositions

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  • If he says that again I'll _______ him _______ — I swear it! (kill him)
    do him in
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  • You'd better not drink that milk, Joe. It's ______ _______ (turned sour)
    gone off
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  • We knew he wasn't English as his accent _______ him _______ (betrayed him)
    let him down
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  • The house I live in __________ _________ _________ the l5th century. (dates from)
    goes back to
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  • Let's _______ ________ Paul and Jan tonight. It's been ages since we last saw them. (go and visit)
    call on
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  • Clive was really ________ _________ when he failed his proficiency exam (upset)
    cut up
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  • I think I'll go somewhere for the weekend. Things have been ______ me _______ lately, so a change of air will do me good. (making me depressed)
    getting me down
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  • John can't come with us tonight after all. It seems he's _____ ______ _____ a cold. (caught)
    come down with
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  • "What does 'misogynist' mean, Allan?" "I've no idea, Jill. You'd better ______ it _______ in the dictionary. (find out its meaning)
    look it up
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  • The power point was behind the piano, which made it very difficult to _____ _____ (reach)
    get at
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  • You're not going to wear a mini-skirt are you, Jane? They _____ ______ years ago. (stopped being fashionable)
    went out
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  • "How old is Eva?" "I'm not sure, but she must be ______ ______ _______ forty." (nearly)
    getting on for
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  • If you _________ _______ 25 from 100, you're left with 75. (subtract)
    take away
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  • No one really believed it when the news came through that the "Titanic" had ______ _______ on her maiden voyage. (sunk)
    gone down
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  • I tried smoking a pipe once, but I never really ______ ________ it. (liked)
    took to
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  • I was offered a job in Leeds but I _______ it _______ because I didn't want to move away from Hastings. (refused it)
    turned it down
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