Phrasal Verbs Examples – P – Z
Phrasal Verbs and Prepositional Verbs in English P – Z
Phrasal Verb | Phrasal Verb in a sentence |
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P | |
pack away | Pack away your toys, it is time for bed. |
paper over | We papered over the problems in our relationship. |
pay back | I paid him back for being rude to me. |
pencil in | Let’s pencil in Saturday for our meeting. |
play up | The little boy was really playing up. |
polish off | We polished off the last of the beer. |
pour down | The rain poured down every day of our holiday. |
press on | Let’s press on with this, we need to finish it today. |
print out | Could you print this out for me, please?. |
pull over | The police car told us to pull over. |
put by | I have been putting money by for my retirement. |
put off | They have put off their wedding |
put up with | I don’t know you put up with her. |
Q | |
quarrel with | He quarrels with any one. He is always arguing. |
quieten down | Quieten down and go to sleep children. It is late. |
R | |
rain off | The match was rained off. |
read up on | I have a new job and I have to read up on lots of things which are new to me. |
rent out | We are going to rent out our flat on AirBnB |
ring back | He is not here now. Would you like to ring back later? |
root for | I am rooting for the team in blue. I don’t like the other team. |
rule out | They have ruled out me getting a pay rise. |
run away | She ran away from home at 16. |
run down | The town centre is very run down. |
run off with | The kidnappers ran off with her little daughter. |
rush in | Fools rush in where wise men fear to tread. |
S | |
save up | We are saving up money to buy a house. |
sold off | We sold off the land as we didn’t need it. |
send off | The player was sent off for a bad foul. |
send over to | She sent me over to talk to her boss. |
set back | Losing our map was a set back on our journey. |
settle down | One day I would like to settle down and have children. |
shop around for | I like to shop around for bargains. |
show off | Stop showing off. |
sit down | Please, sit down. |
sit by | We shouldn’t sit by and do nothing, we should help. |
sleep in | I slept in this morning. |
slow down | Slow down you are driving too fast. |
snap off | The handle just snapped off the door. |
sober up | He’ll have a bad headache when he sobers up. |
splash out on | Let’s go crazy and splash out on new clothes. |
speak up | Speak up, please. I can hardly hear you. |
stand up for | You should stand up for what you believe in. |
start up | We started up a new business together last summer. |
stay in | Let’s stay in tonight and not go out. |
steer clear off | We should steer clear of the motorway as there is a big traffic jam. |
step down | My boss has stepped down from his job. His assistant is now in charge. |
stick together | We must stick together otherwise we will get lost. |
stop by | Please stop by when you are in London. |
stop off | We’ll stopped off in Liverpool on our way to Glasgow for a short rest. |
storm out of | He stormed out the room, shouting and yelling. |
straighten out | We have to straighten this mess out. |
strip down | The mechanic stripped down the bike engine. |
stretcher off | The injured player was stretchered off. |
sum up | This report sums up the benefits of the plan. |
swear by | I swear by these pills as a great cure for headaches |
switch off | Could you switch the light off, please? |
switch on | Could you switch the light on, please? |
T | |
take away | The waiter took away our empty plates. |
take off | The doctor told me to take off my clothes. |
take in | Are you taking this in? I will be asking questions later. |
talk back to | Don’t talk back to me. Do as you are told. |
talk round | She can always talk her dad round to get her way. |
tear up | She tore the letter up. |
tell off | The teacher told him off. |
tell on | I’m going to tell the teacher on you. |
think over | Let’s think it over before we do anything. |
think through | Let me think this through before I make a decision. |
think of | I was thinking of you when I bought this present. |
think up | I need to think something up quickly. |
throw out | Throw out any toys which are broken |
tidy away | Please tidy your books away. |
trick into | He tried to trick me into doing his chores. |
try out | Let’s try out the new restaurant in town. |
turn around | We turned around and went back the way we came. |
turn down | He turned down the job offer. |
turn in | I’m going to turn in now and get some sleep. |
turn off | Turn off the lights before you go to bed. |
turn on | Turn on the television there is a good film on. |
turn up | Don’t worry something always turns up. |
U | |
use up | We used up all our money in the first week of the holiday. |
W | |
wait up for | Don’t wait up for me. I will be back very late. |
wake up | Wake up or you will be late for school. |
walk into | I was looking at my phone and I walked into a lamp post. |
watch out | Watch out! There is a child running across the road. |
wear off | The pain killers are being to wear off. I can feel the pain. |
wiggle out of | Don’t try and wiggle out of doing the washing up. |
work on | You need to work on your English grammar. |
wrap up | Wrap up the presents well. |
write down | I wrote down everything the teacher said in the lesson. |
Y | |
yell out | The pain made me yell out. |
Z | |
zip up | I had better zip up my jacket. |
zoom off | He zoomed off without telling me where he was going. |