Key Phrasal Verbs With Up Down
Key Phrasal Verbs With Up Down
Key Phrasal Verbs With Up Down
Practice
Replace the parts in bold with a phrasal verb.
I met an old friend at the weekend. We went for a coffee and (1)to chat and exchange some news. We actually hadn’t
seen each other for a while because we had fallen out and had only (2)reconciled recently. He really wasn’t in a good
way, his girlfriend has really (3)disappointed him, she had his old decrepit hamster (4)killed. She (5)tricked him by
saying she was just taking the hamster to the vet for a check up. Then she tried to (6)minimise the importance of what
she had done by saying that the hamster was really old.
He has decided not to (7)tolerate her strange ways anymore. He kept (8)being really self critical while we were chatting
and then he (9)cried. After a few minutes his tears (10)decreased in intensity and I managed to cheer him up a bit. My
phone (11)hasn’t been working properly lately but I managed to send him a text this morning to (12)investigate the
situation further and it looks as if things have gone from bad to worse; they (13)ended their relationship yesterday and
I’ve promised to (14)let him stay at my house for a few days while he finds a new place.