You need to calm down before you drive the car. Give me your phone number and I will call you up when we are in town. We called on you last night but you weren’t home. The professor called on me for question 1. Jason called the wedding off because he wasn’t in love with his fiancé. I called the company back but the offices were closed for the weekend. We called around but we weren’t able to find the car part we needed. He drank so much that he brought his dinner up in the toilet. My mother walks out of the room when my father brings up sports. My grandparents brought me up after my parents died. I broke out in a rash after our camping trip. The prisoners broke out of jail when the guards weren’t looking. The kids just broke up as soon as the clown started talking. My boyfriend and I broke up before I moved to America. The TV station broke in to report the news of the president’s death. I need to break these shoes in before we run next week. Wear something a few times so that it doesn’t look/feel new The firemen had to break into the room to rescue the children.

Somebody broke in last night and stole our stereo. Our teacher broke the final project down into three separate parts. The woman broke down when the police told her that her son had died. Our car broke down at the side of the highway in the snowstorm.

We have to blow 50 balloons up for the party.

The racing car blew up after it crashed into the fence. My wife backed me up over my decision to quit my job. You’ll have to back up your car so that I can get out. I asked around but nobody has seen my wallet. Phrasal verbs often arise from casual uses of the language and eventually work themselves into the mainstream of language use.īelow is a list of 200 common phrasal verbs, with meanings and example sentences:īrian asked Judy out to dinner and a movie. The resulting combination creates what amounts to a new verb, whose meaning can sometimes be puzzling to non-native speakers. Phrasal verbs consist of a verb and another word or phrase, usually a preposition.

Phrasal verbs list with meaning