"Your English ticket to life" Project by English teacher Iuliana Pienoiu. Phrasal verbs with "up" http://meditatii-engleza.ro/ You can also find me on Skype at: meditatii-engleza.
1. pick up
to lift something or someone from a surface
E.g. James was not afraid of spiders so he
picked it up and looked at it carefully.
2. pick up
to collect, to gather
E.g. In autumn we go into the forest and pick up
the overnight fallen chestnuts.
3. pick up
to take someone in a vehicle
E.g. She waited at the station until her husband
came to pick her up.
4. pick up
to acquire knowledge by learning or
experience
E.g. He picked up a few Italian expressions
while visiting Rome.
5. pick up
to start something again from the point where
you stopped
E.g. We will pick up this conversation when I get
back from work.
6. cheer up
to become less unhappy or to make someone
feel less unhappy
E.g. His friends did everything they could to
cheer him up but he couldn’t stop crying.
7. take up
to start doing something regularly as a habit or
interest
E.g. I took up jogging because I felt I had to lose
some weight.
8. take up
to make something shorter
E.g. Her skirt was too long so she took it up a
little bit.
9. look up
to search a particular piece of information in a
book
E.g. You should look up any unknown word in a
dictionary.
10. look up
to become better, to improve
E.g. Our financial situation is finally looking up.
11. break up
to finish a relationship
E.g. Their relationship wasn’t going very well so
they decided to break up.
12. break up
close an educational institution for holidays
E.g. All the children in Romania broke up for the
summer holidays on 15th June.
13. break up
to break something into pieces
E.g. She broke up the bar of chocolate and gave
each one of her friends a small piece.
14. break up
become inaudible over the telephone because
of interference
E.g. I tried to talk to her on the phone but I
couldn’t hear her because she was breaking
up.
15. brush up
to refresh one’s knowledge or memory of a
subject
E.g. Mary took an online course to brush up her
English before she visited London.
16. blow up
to explode
E.g. I wonder what would happen if a nuclear
bomb blew up in space.
17. blow up
to start suddenly
E.g. The concert was cancelled because a
terrifying storm blew up.
18. blow up
to inflate, to fill with air
E.g. George was out of breath after he had
blown up all his daughter’s balloons.
19. show up
to attend something or to arrive somewhere
E.g. Make sure you are not going to show up
late at our first date!
20. show up
make someone feel embarrassed or ashamed
E.g. I was upset because he was always
showing me up in front of my classmates.