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CAE Phrasal Verbs for Advanced

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  • come to
    to become conscious again
  • set in
    to come and remain for some time
  • bring out
    to produce something, to publish something
  • turn over
    to turn a page on to its other side
  • take down
    to make a note of something
  • make off
    to leave, especially in a hurry or secretly
  • come about
    to happen
  • catch on
    to become popular, to understand
  • see off
    go to a station to say goodbye to somebody
  • tell off
    criticize
  • take to
    to feel or begin to feel a liking for somebody
  • drop off
    fall asleep
  • cut off
    to remove by cutting, to separate
  • take down
    to make a note of something
  • put through
    to connect someone on the telephone
  • get through
    to succeed in speaking to somebody on the phone
  • break out
    escape from a prison
  • get round
    to persuade someone to agree or to do what you want
  • come at
    to attack, to be directed at or toward
  • cut across
    to go across something to make your journey shorter
  • go without
    to manage without something that you usually have or need
  • bring about
    to make something happen, to cause
  • cut up
    to divide something into smaller pieces
  • stumble across
    meet or find something by chance
  • take up
    make shorter
  • put forward
    to propose or suggest something
  • let down
    make longer
  • take in
    to understand or remember something that you hear or read
  • do up
    repair and redecorate a building
  • do away with
    to stop doing or having something, to make something end
  • dress down
    wear informal clothes
  • look through
    to examine something, usually quickly
  • get down
    to make a note of something
  • do with
    be helped by having something
  • put by
    save for the future
  • bring round
    to bring back from unconsciousness
  • come out
    to be produced or published, to appear
  • take on
    to begin to deal withsomething (job, responsibility)
  • put off
    postpone
  • pass out
    faint
  • put away
    return something to its proper place
  • pass away
    die
  • bring in
    to introduce a law
  • set about
    to begin to do something
  • set back
    to delay the progress of someone or something
  • do in
    kill someone or make someone very tired
  • come to
    to become conscious again
  • turn out
    to happen, to prove to be
  • go round
    to be enough for everyone
  • come off
    to turn out well, to succeed
  • cut in
    to join a conversation suddenly, to interrupt
  • take out on
    to behave badly towards somebody because you are angry about something else
  • doze off
    to fall asleep
  • break off
    stop speaking suddenly
  • pass on
    die
  • look away
    to turn your eyes away from someone or something that you were looking at
  • give off
    to send (light, energy) out from a source
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