CALL UP powołać (do służby)
1225 Many millions of men had to be called up during the Second World War.
CARRY OFF uprowadzić
The child was carried off by the two men and held by them until his parents paid
the money they demanded./
CATCH ON przyjąć się
That kind of music will never catch on in this country. Some
people are very slow to catch on to what is being said.
CHECK OVER sprawdzić
I think we should check the goods over before we send them off.
CLEAR OFF wynosić się, zniknąć
The youths soon cleared off the moment the police arrived.
COME ACROSS być zrozumianym
What he was trying to explain in his speech did not come across very clearly.
COME BY przejechać obok
1226 The car came by my house at a frightening speed./
COME FORWARD wyłonić się, pojawić się
To everyone's surprise no-one came forward to collect the reward.
COME OFF wyjść
What we were trying to do didn't quite come off.
COME OUT rosnąć, okazać się
It is the type of flower that comes out in late spring. Let's
hope it will all come out to everyone's advantage.
COUNT ON polegać
You can always count on her help in a crisis.
CUT ACROSS skrócić (drogę)
We cut across the field in order to save time.
CUT BACK zredukować znacząco
The government had to cut back on the amount of money it was spending on arms./
1227 CUT IN wyjechać nagle do przodu
The car cut in in front of us.
I wonder if I might cut in here on the conversation.
CUT OFF odciąć
Last night our electricity supply was suddenly cut off.
CUT OUT usunąć
We have too many. We'll have to cut that one out.
CUT UP pociąć
She cut the paper up into several small pieces.
DO AWAY WITH wyrzucić
It's about time you did away with that old jacket of yours.
DO OUT OF pozbawić
He was very angry at having been done out of his fair share of the profits./
DRAW IN skracać
DRAW OUT wydłużać
1228 The days begin to draw in as winter approaches and draw out as summer
approaches.
DROP BY wpaść do kogoś
It was nice of you to drop by to see me.
DROP OUT odpaść
Because of the speed and character of modern life, some people decide to drop out
of society.
I now regret dropping out in the middle of the course.
FACE UP TO stawić czoła
I just couldn't face up to another violent argument with him.
FALL BACK ON zwrócić się, powrócić
She always had her parents to fall back on in an emergency./
FALL IN WITH zaznajomić się
We fell in with a group of tourists who were able to help us and give us directions.
We were quite willing to fall in with their plans.
1229 FALL THROUGH zakończyć się fiaskiem
Our holiday plans fell through at the last moment, due to my father's sudden
illness.
FEEL UP TO nie być w stanie
I'm sorry, but I just don't feel up to going to the party this evening.
GET AT zmierzać do czegoś
No matter how hard I tried, I just couldn't understand what he was trying to get
at./
GET AWAY WITH uciec, uniknąć
The thieves broke into the house and got away with a considerable amount of
jewellery.
The boy got away with the crime on the grounds that he was too young to
understand what he was doing.
GET DOWN zejść z...
The children were allowed to get down from the table and play with their new toys.
GET IN zebrać do
1230 The schoolchildren helped to get in the harvest before the weather worsened.
GET OFF zacząć, uniknąć (kary)
They got off very lightly, considering the danger they had been in./
The accused got off with a caution.
GET OUT OF wydobyć
She seems to get a lot of pleasure out of listening to that kind of music.
Somehow he managed to get out of paying his taxes.
GET OVER wyzdrowieć, wyrazić
It took him six months to get over his most recent illness. I
failed to get over exactly what it was I wished to say.
GET ROUND TO robić coś dalej
I will try to get round to doing the job later this week./
GIVE AWAY zdradzić
1231 The spy was accused of giving away state secrets to the enemy.
GO DOWN WITH zacząć chorować
Every winter he goes down with the flu.
GO FOR przynieść
He's always asking me to go for something or other for him.
GO IN FOR wziąć udział
He intends going in for motor-racing when he is old enough.
I wish I had gone in for that competition. It is now clear that I would have won it.
GO ON wydawać
Most of what she earns goes on clothes./
GO OUT odejść
COME IN nadejść
The tide comes in and goes out quite rapidly on this part of the coast.
GO THROUGH przejść przez...
1232 She went through a lot of pain during her last illness.
The police went through the documents very thoroughly.
HAND -ON przekazać
He wants to hand his business on to his son when he dies.
HANG BACK wahać się
He hung back for a few seconds before he jumped.
HAVE ROUND gościć
We had some friends round for lunch yesterday.
HOLD IN przytrzymać
He had to hold his stomach in in order to zip up his trousers./
JOIN UP złączyć
"Join up the two ends of the string and tie them together!"
KEEP AT trzymać w
If you keep at it when learning a language, you're sure to succeed.
1233 KEEP DOWN utrzymać
It was difficult to keep down the number of rabbits to a reasonable figure.
KEEP IN zatrzymać w...
Some of the children were kept in after school for bad behaviour.
KEEP OFF unikać
My doctor told me to keep off fatty foods if I wished to lose weight.
KEEP ON utrzymać, kontynuować
If you keep on driving for another two miles, you will come to the house you're
looking for./
Even though there was very little work for him to do, the company decided to keep
him on.
LAY BY odłożyć
We had to lay by a good stock of food for the winter.
LIVE UP TO spełniać oczekiwania
1234 He certainly lived up to his reputation as the strongest man in the village.
LOOK IN odwiedzić