phrasal verbs

1. Poner en su lugar
Phrasal verb - 1
1. “Jack, put away your toys please”.
2. “You can go to the movies with your friends if you put away your clothes.
3. “Let’s put away all the dishes after wahing them”.
4. “If we put away our things, mum won’t scold us”.

2. Regularmente ahorrar dinero
Phrasal verb - 2
1. Joanna puts by a dollar every week.
2. “I can’t put by anything every day because everything is
expensive”.
3. Salvador will put by twenty dollars today to go to the movies on
the weekend.
4. Jennifer doesn’t put by money because she is very poor.

3. Hacer sentir a alguien tonto
Phrasal verb - 3
1. Alfred is always putting his sisters down in public.
2. Some men like to put their wives down in front of friends.
3. “If you put me down in front of your relatives one more time, I will file for divorce”.
4. It is not polite to put people down.

4. posponer algo
Phrasal verb - 3
1. “We can put off meeting him until Friday”.
2. Blanca cannot put off seeing my children for next vacation.
3. Sonia isn’t going to put off the dentist appointment.
4. Albert has put off visiting his parents until Christmas.

5. Distraer a alguien que está concentrado en algo
Phrasal verb - 3
1. “Stop making that noise. You are putting me off”
2. “Don’t try to put me off now that I am doing my homework”
3. Every time Albert listens to music so loudly, he puts his sister off.
4. Once she's made up her mind to do something, nothing will put her off.
5. The sudden flash of the camera put the players off their game.
6. “Could you be quiet please - I’m trying to concentrate and you're putting me off”.

6. Encender o prender algo
Phrasal verb - 3
1. “It’s cold, so I will put on the heating”
2. “I put on the brakes too fast, and the car skidded”.
3. “I put the heat on, but it will take a minute for the car to warm up”.
4. “Put on that Ella Fitzgerald CD”.

7. Permitir a alguien que se quede en tu
casa
Phrasal verb - 3
1. “If you visit Colt, I’ll put you up”
2. Sally is putting me up for the weekend.
3. “Don’t worry for a hotel room, my parents can put you up for the weekend.”

8. Tolerar a alguien / tolerar algo
Phrasal verb - 3
1. Many teachers don’t put up with the rudeness of their students.
2. “I can put up with the house being messy, but I hate it if it's not clean”.
3. “They have a lot to put up with” (= they have a lot of difficulties).
4. “I don’t know how Jack puts up with his children’s constant complaining”.
5. “I have put up with my daughter’s tantrums for 30 years”.
6. “I can't put up with a leaky freezer”.