Let’s look at examples.

Be after — have
the will and
intention to
Be away — carry out some
be absentfrom action.
a place. Be on/off — be
I have been after turned on/off.
He is away this phone for
this weekend. Is your phone
a long time.
on or off now?

Be over —
Be up to — end, stop.
think, Don’t worry,
contemplate. soon it will
What are you be over.

BE
up to? I am usually
up at 8 am.

Be up — Be against —
wake up. be opposed
I am usually to someone
up at 8 am. or something.
I am against
such strict
rules.
Be for —
supporting or in
favor of someone Be back —
or something. return.
I am for I’ll be back in
Real Madrid. 10 minutes.

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 Fall for
somebody —
fall in love with
somebody.
He was fantastically
handsome–I just fell for
him right away.

Fall down — Fall apart —

fall. break because

FALL
The roof of being old or
started to fall badly made.
down and Their marriage
they started to is likely to fall
run. apart.

Fall behind —
move more slowly than
other people so that
you are behind them.
He was ill for six weeks
and fell behind with his
schoolwork.

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 Come from — Come across —
have been meet someone, or
to find something Come back —
born in a
by chance. return.
particular
place. She came across When we came
her ex-husband back home, we
I’m from Spain.
yesterday. had a package
waiting at the
door.

Come up with
something — Come off —

Be
think of stop being fixed
something to something.
such as an Old paint has
idea or a plan. come off the
We need to come
up with a solution. COME wall.

Come out —
Come over —
becomes
visit someone in
available to
the place where
buy or see.
they are,
especially their
Their new book
house.
will come out
Come by — next week.
Could you come
visit a place for a short
over here?
time, often when you are
going somewhere else.
Are you sure you can
come by at nine?

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 Get along with
someone —
Get through — like each other and
be connected are friendly to each
to a place by other. Get in —
telephone. enter a room
I don’t get along
The call didn’t with his friends. or a car.
get through Excuse me,
to you. may I get in?

Get to — Get out —

arrive. leave a room

Be
I got to my or a car.
friends’ house I'll get out when
at 8 pm. you stop at the

GET traffic lights.

Get down — Get off —

go downstairs. leave a bus,
She got down to plane, or train.
us quite late. I got off at the
railway station.

Get over —
start to feel happy Get up —
or well again after get out of bed after
something bad has sleeping.
happened to you. I usually get up
I’m not sure I will be at 7 am.
able to get over this
failure.

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 Give up —
stop doing
something that
you do regularly.
The team gave
up easily.

Give back — Give away —

give someone tell information
something that or facts that
they owned or you should
had before. keep secret.
Can you give me He always gives
my iPad back?
GIVE away other
people’s secrets.

Give in —
Give out — stop competing or
give something arguing and
to several accept that you
people. cannot win.
He is not able Please, don’t
to give our jobs. give in.

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 Go out —
leave your house and go
somewhere, especially to do
something enjoyable.
Do you want to go out for a
drink after work?

Go on — Go with —
continue choose
happening. or accept
This war has something.
been going on I think we can
for years go with this
suggestion.

GO

Go down/up — Go without
increase/decrease. something —
The prices are live without
constantly going up. something that
you need or would
like to have.
I'd rather go without
food than work
for him.
Go back to somebody —
stop competing or arguing
and accept that you
cannot win.
He went back to his wife.

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 Look after —
take care of someone or
Look at — something and make
direct your eyes certain that they have
towards someone or everything they need.
something so that She asked to look after Look for —
you can see them. the dog. search for
Look at yourself in someone or
the mirror. something.
What are you
looking for?

Look up —
try to find a Look forward to —
particular piece of feel happy and
information by excited about
looking in a book or

Be
something that is
on a list, or by using going to happen.
a computer. I’ll be looking forward

GET
Look it up on the to meeting you.
Internet.
LOOK
Look ahead —
Look in — think about what is
visit someone for likely to happen, or
a short time on plan what you are
your way to going to do in the
another place, future.
especially if they They never look
are ill or may ahead and buy
need help. tickets at the last
He quickly looked moment.
in and then ran
away. Look into —
try to discover the
facts about Look back —
something such as look behind.
a problem or a crime. Run and don’t
We’ll look into your look back.
application.

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 Take back — Take up —
admit that something you said start doing something
to or about someone was regularly as a habit, job,
wrong. or interest.
I take my words back. You should take up
some art classes.

Take down — Take on —

remove something start to employ
that was previously someone.
put up or put in I don’t want to
place. take on this
Take this poster person.
down!

TAKE Take over —

begin to do
something that
someone else was
doing.
Take off —
an aircraft leaves When he died, his
the ground and son took over as
starts flying. CEO.
My plane took off
at 7 o’clock.
Take out —
go with someone to
a restaurant, theater,
performance, etc. and pay
for everything.
Take after — I take my wife out twice
look or behave like a month.
an older relative.
He took a lot after
his father.

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 Turn up/down —
increase/decrease the amount
Turn on/off — of sound, heat, or light produced
make a piece of by a piece of equipment by
equipment start/stop pressing a button or moving
working by pressing a a switch.
button or moving a switch. This is my niece singing, turn
Please, turn the TV off. it up!

Turn away —
Turn around — start to move
move so as to face away or to face
in the opposite in a different
direction. direction.
Even if you hear

TURN
TURN
He stared at her
something rude, and she turned
don’t turn around. away.

Turn in —
Turn into —
give or return
change or develop into
something or
something different.
someone to an
In this story, a boy
authority.
turned into a wolf.
He caught me
lying but he didn’t
turn me in.
Turn out (to be) —
be discovered to be
something, have
something etc.
This man turned out to
be a serial killer.

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