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50 Cards in this Set
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take off
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remove
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slip out
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leave quietly
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nod off
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fall asleep
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look around
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look on all sides
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let in
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allow to enter
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look for
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try to find
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look at
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examine
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look after
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care for
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make up for
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compensate
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calm down
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relax
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work (something) out
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solve (a problem)
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break up
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finish
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run out of
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have nothing left (money, time, food)
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walk out on
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abandon
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take up
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start (a new job, hobby, sport)
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make up your mind
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make a decision
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go after
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run after
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blow up
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lose your temper, get angry
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make someone out
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understand someone, to understand what motivates someone
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fall down
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fall on the floor
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slow down
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reduce your speed gradually
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go through
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to suffer
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go through with
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to do something even though you know it will be difficult
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drop someone off
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take someone somewhere (in the car) opposite of pick someone up
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pick someone up
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give someone a lift, collect someone in the car
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let someone down
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disappoint someone
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get into (a car, lorry)
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opposite of get out of
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pull out of
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leave (e.g. pull out of a lay-by) opposite of pull into
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pull into
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enter (e.g. pull into a station, a lay-by)
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dawn on
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realise
(it suddenly dawned on him that the prisoner had escaped) |
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come across (something)
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come into contact with
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give up
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stop, abandon
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go on
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continue
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keep on
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continue
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get on with
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have a good relationship with someone
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do up
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renovate, redecorate, repaint a house
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come round, go round
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visit
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get round to
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find time to do something
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going on
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happening
e.g. when my father found out what was going on her went crazy |
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turn something down
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refuse, reject
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settle down
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start living in one place
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end up
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result in
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think something through
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think over, consider
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rabbit on
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talk on and on
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break off
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pause
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bottle something up
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keep inside you, not tell anyone about something which bothers you
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be up to something
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be acting secretly, suspiciously
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rip someone off
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cheat, charge someone too much
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give in
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surrender, stop fighting
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let someone off
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decide not to punish someone
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