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phrasal
to cause people to be friendly with each other: ( hacer que la gente a ser amable con los dems.)
The disaster brought the community together. (El desastre llev a la comunidad.)
give up
phrasal
You'll never guess the answer - do you give up? I give up - how many were there? to stop, abandon dejar de, abandonar; rendirse I must give up smoking They gave up the search.
pick sb/sth up
to let (someone) into a car, train etc in order to take him somewhere
recoger, pasar a buscar I picked him up at the station and drove him home.
pull out
phrasal
/pl/ verb
B2 If a vehicle pulls out, it starts moving onto a road or onto a different part of the road:
A car pulled right out in front of me (Un coche se detuvo justo en frente de m.)
run into sb
phrasal
/rn/ verb (PRESENT PARTICIPLE running, PAST TENSE ran, PAST PARTICIPLE run)
B2 to meet someone you know when you are not expecting to:
Graham ran into someone he used to know at school the other day.
set out
to start a journey partir, salir He set out to explore the countryside.
phrasal
to take someone or something to a particular place, usually by car, as you travel to a different place: (llevar a alguien o algo a un lugar determinado, por lo general en coche, ya que viaja a un lugar diferente) to allow to get off a vehicle (para permitir a bajar de un vehculo)
We dropped our luggage off at the hotel and went sightseeing. (Dejamos nuestro equipaje en el hotel y nos fuimos de turismo.)
see sb off
(SAY GOODBYE)
TENSE
to go to the place that someone is leaving from in order to say goodbye to them: My parents saw me off at the airport.
to find something by chance: He came across some of his old love letters in his wife's desk.
Recuperarse de, reponerse; superar, vencer Ive got over my cold now I cant get over her leaving so suddenly.
She was only just getting over the flu when she got a stomach bug. It took him years to get over the shock of his wife dying. It took her months to get over Rupert when he finished the relationship.
get by
phrasal
PARTICIPLE
got or US gotten)
to be able to live or deal with a situation with difficulty, usually by having just enough of something you need, such as money: (ser capaz de vivir o hacer frente a una situacin de dificultades, por lo general por tener lo suficiente de algo que usted necesita, como el dinero)
How can he get by on so little money? (Cmo puede sobrevivir con tan poco dinero) We can get by with four computers at the moment, but we'll need a couple more when the new staff arrive. (staff= personal)
B2 to deal successfully with a problem, a situation, or a person who is having difficulties: (para afrontar
con xito un problema, una situacin o una persona que est teniendo dificultades: ) We've sorted out the computer system's initial problems.[+ question word] It'll be difficult to sort out how much each person owes. (Va a ser difcil de resolver lo que cada persona debe.) Most of the job involves sorting out customers who have queries.(la mayor parte del trabajo consiste en resolver las consultas de los clientes)
to visit or stay at a place for a short time when you are going somewhere else:
I'll stop off at the shops on my way home and get some wine. We're going to stop off in Paris for a couple of days before heading south.
It's high time we all stood up for our rights around here.
Ya es hora de que todos pusimos de pie por nuestros derechos por aqu.
Don't be bullied, learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe in.
turn in
informal phrasal verb with turn to go to bed: I usually turn in at about midnight. /tn/ /tn/ verb
look forward to
to wait with pleasure for Esperar con inters