4. Look up the following phrasal verbs in a dictionary and comment on their contextual meanings. Use the verbs to fill in the gaps in the sentences below.

- to be laid up - to grow on smb

- to call upon smb (to do smth) - to hold out

- to carry smth out - to put oneself out

- to give in (to smb/ smth) - to throw up smth

- to go back on smth/ smb

1) The chairman spoke so forcefully that the rest of the committee ___ ___ his opinion.

2) Why did you ___ ___ such a good job, when they are so hard to get?

3) Religious people ___ ___ God to help them.

4) Only a coward ___ ___ his fate.

5) I’ve been ___ ___ since Christmas with a bad cough.

6) Don’t ___ ___ your education by leaving now.

7) The town was surrounded, but the citizens ___ ___ until help came.

8) The gunmen ___ ___ their threat and shot the man.

9) Mother was ___ ___ for a month – so ill she was after the operation.

10) Saving regularly soon ___ ___ you.

11) Say thank you to your aunt – she ___ herself ___ to take care of you when you were ill.

12) They ___ ___ their word and refused to lend us money.

13) His music is difficult to listen to, but after a while it starts ___ ___ you.

14) You should never ___ ___ your friends.

15) Do not give up. ___ ___ and fortify!

16) Ann is a very considerate girl, always willing to ___ herself ___ to help others.

5. Match the following idioms with their definitions and then use them in the sentences below.

	Idiom		Definition
1	At the bottom of one’s heart	A	to not make any effort to help someone
2	Be as good as his/ her word	B	not to take, touch, disturb etc smb
3	Be at death’s door	C	to do what you want, often despite the wishes or feelings of others
4	Be out of the question	D	to marry in a church, to wed
5	Distract one’s mind	E	to do what you have promised
6	Do smth behind smb’s back	F	to be so ill that you might die
7	Do one’s bit	G	to enjoy yourself; be very happy or excited
8	Follow smb to the grave	H	to be in a very dangerous or uncertain situation
9	Hang by a thread	I	what a person really/ secretly thinks/ feels
10	Have one’s own way	J	something will be impossible or not allowed
11	Have the time of one’s life	K	to do one’s duty, one’s share of responsibility
12	Lead smb to the altar	L	to die very soon after someone else
13	Leave smb/ smth alone	M	to do smth without smb’s knowing, especially because they would not like it
14	(not) lift/ raise/ stir a finger	N	(make smb) relax or stop thinking about important/ grave matters

1) I feel guilty about complaining to the boss ________. I should have warned my colleagues before.

2) I was amazed to see how good he was at the job, chatting with the customers, obviously ________.

3) Hopkins had spent so much time ________ for the past years, that the final act of passing through it must have been for him pretty much of a routine affair.

4) For weeks after the accident, her life ________.

5) Patriotism united the British nation, regardless of class, age or political views, during the Great War when everyone _________ as a matter of course.

6) We moved furniture all day long, and Sara never ________ to help us.

7) You’ll find that she ________ – she always comes if she says she will.

8) Kitty kept saying that she would go, though ________ she knew that she couldn’t.

9) Once Stan threatened to make the letter public and he was ________.

10) A house was ________ then, as we lived in a rented flat.

11) Molly was so tired that she decided to make a break and go out somewhere to ________.

12) She outlived her husband by three months and soon ________.

13) Isabelle seemed to have got over Edward and a couple of months later Bateman, the devoted friend, ________.

14) You are bound to get into trouble, interfering in other people’s problems. Why can’t you ________?