Элементарно об английских предлогах и фразовых глаголах = English Prepositions and Phrasal Verbs Elementary. Пособие

here tomorrow. They will be coming ... train and most ... the young people ... the town will be meeting them ... the station. Tomorrow evening they will be singing ... the Workers’ Club. The Greenwood Boys will be staying ... five days. ... this stay, they will give five performances. ... usual, the police will have a difficult time. They will be trying to keep order. It is always the same ... these occasions.

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Dear Mum and Dad,

Hello ... Amsterdam! Joe and I arrived ... this fantastic city two days ago and I thought I’d write ... you to tell you how great it is. Yesterday we went ... the Van Gogh Museum and saw some amazing paintings ... the artist. We were so impressed ... his work that we stayed ... the museum ... six hours! We also took a bicycle ride ... the peaceful streets and I was astonished ... the beauty of the houses. In fact, they reminded me ... home. I’ve taken lots of photographs ... them so you can see for yourself.

This morning we met a very nice Dutch couple and they’ve invited us to have dinner ... them tonight. They live ... a houseboat so the evening should be fun. I just hope Joe doesn’t fall ... the canal - you know how clumsy he is!

Anyway, we’re leaving ... Paris tomorrow afternoon, so you’ll hear ... us again ... a few days.

Lots of love,

Carol

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Dear Sir/Madam,

I’m writing to complain ... the service, food and prices ... your restaurant, The Salmon’s Leap.

I took my friends out ... a birthday treat ... your restaurant ... Friday I6th May and had an awful meal. The waiter showed us ... a table … … the kitchen and we weren’t able to change ... another one. It was very noisy and the waiters were pushing ... us all the time. When the waiter brought the drinks, he spilled cola ... my new dress and ruined it. My steak was burnt although I ordered it medium rare and the coffee ... the end of the meal was cold. When I got the bill, it was much more than I expected. I would like you to pay to clean the dress and apologise ...

spoiling my special day. I must say, I used to eat regularly

... the Salmon’s Leap. I hope that your standards will improve soon.

Yours faithfully,

Louise Lewis

7.One day a party of Americans were having dinner ... the Ritz Hotel ... London. When fish was served some of them began telling interesting stories ... finding jewels ... fish.

An old man who had been quietly listening all the time and saying very little ... last remarked, ‘I have heard all your stories, now I shall tell you one.’

‘When I was young,’ he went on, ‘I worked ... a big firm ...

New York, and as it always happens ... young men I fell ... love ...

a girl and very soon became engaged. About two months ... our marriage I was suddenly sent ... England ... business. Because

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I had a lot of business there, I stayed ... England somewhat longer than I had expected, but just ... going home I bought a beautiful diamond ring, intending to give it ... the girl I was going to marry. One morning, ... board the liner crossing the Atlantic I was looking ... an American paper, which somebody had given me, and saw an announcement ... the girl’s marriage

... another man. I got so angry that I threw the ring overboard. A few days later I was dining ... a restaurant ... New York. Fish was served and, while eating it, I felt something hard ... my teeth, and what do you think it was?’

‘The diamond!’ exclaimed several of the Americans. ‘No,’ said the old man. ‘It was a fish bone.’

8.Last May Joe and I visited Hawaii, ... the Pacific Ocean. Hawaii is famous ... its beautiful beaches and dark volcanoes. We went ... a tour of all the islands, which Joe really enjoyed. We also spent hours lying ... golden beaches. When it was time to get ... the plane and go back home, we both felt very sad!

9.When Paul arrived ... London he was very serious ... finding a job. He asked ... application forms from many companies, and when several seemed very pleased ... his qualifications he realised that he was going to succeed ... getting a good position.

10.The Mediterranean diet is becoming popular ... people who care ... their health. Although it may seem to be high ... calories, it actually has many benefits to people who suffer ... heart disease and other health problems. If you want to improve your health, you shouldn’t miss out on this great way of eating.

11.I read ... a strange celebration ... Spain ... which people throw tomatoes ... each other, making a terrible mess, and compete

... each other to throw the most tomatoes. It reminded me ...

the celebration ... my village, ... the fifteenth of May, when people throw flowers and generally have a lot of fun.

12.My friend Sally had always dreamed ... becoming an actress, and the last time I heard ... her she sounded very proud ... herself because she’d just got her first part in a film. It’s a film

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... a doctor who is ... danger ... being arrested and put ... bars because of a false accusation. I can’t wait to see it!

13. A dentist in Bavaria has been haunted ... a voice which swears

... him all the time. The voice comes ... light sockets, washbasins and the telephone. It is a sharp deep voice which laughs

... the dentist and mocks him. The poor dentist is suffering ... a bad case of nerves. Recently, the voice was recorded and broadcast, so now everyone in Bavaria is looking ... the ghost, but so far no one has succeeded ... finding it. People who don’t believe ... ghosts think it is just a practical joke. The voice always shouts ... the dentist, but he speaks sweetly ... his 17-year-old assistant, Claudia. But no one can blame Claudia

... the behaviour of the ghost or accuse her... playing tricks ...

her poor boss. Engineers don’t know what to make ... it. ‘He’s a technical genius,’ one of them said. The ghost has responded

... all this activity by saying, in a thick Bavarian accent, ‘You’ll never get hold ... me!’

14. ... a Thursday evening ... October 1931, ... about eight o’clock, the ship ‘Voyager’ sank. The ship had been sailing ... the end of September, when she left London, and was … her way ... England ... Australia. The only survivor was an Englishman called Wilfred Batty, who saved himself ... swimming two miles. He spent three years ... an island ... the middle of the Indian Ocean.

The island was quite small, and he could walk ... the whole of it ... an hour. He climbed ... the one hill and put a flag ...

it ... a signal. ... night Batty slept ... a cave, where he felt quite

... home. ... the day, he often fished ... a homemade net. He cooked the fish ... a wood fire.

Batty stayed ... the island ... almost three years, ... August 1934. A ship was sailing ... the island, and the captain saw Batty’s signal. The sailors found a man ... a long blue coat ... dark hair and a beard, looking rather ... a gorilla. Batty was soon home, and a few years later he finally arrived in Australia ...

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ФРАЗОВЫЕ ГЛАГОЛЫ (PHRASAL VERBS)

ask in приглашать кого-л. пройти (войти) в дом и т п. to invite sb to enter the house

Mrs Smith asked me in.

ask out приглашать куда-л. to imvite sb to go out with you, especially as a way of starting a romantic relationship

He’s too shy to ask her out.

ask over/round приглашать в гости to invite to come and visit you

I’ll ask Sylvia Wicks round for a drink.

be against быть против to be opposed to (often used with gerund)

I’m against doing anything till the police arrive.

be away отсутствовать, быть в отъезде to be away from home/ this place for at least a night

You’ll have to call again. The director is away on business. be back вернуться to (have) return (ed)

I have to go now, but I’ll be back soon.

be down спуститься, быть внизу (в столовой) to be downstairs (no longer upstairs)

Mary’s not down yet. (= She is still upstairs)

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be for быть за, поддерживать кого-л. to be in favour of (often used with gerund)

I’m for doing nothing till the police arrive.

be in быть дома, на работе, в помещении to be at home/in this building

Is Mr Short in?

be off

1. уходить, отправляться to leave

I must be off.

The train is off.

2.быть свободным от работы to be free from work I’m off for the afternoon today.

3.быть отмененным, аннулированным to be cancelled The meeting is off.

4.быть отключенным (о воде, электричестве и т.п.) to be no longer on

The electricity was off yesterday.

The water is off.

be on

1.гореть, быть зажженным, включенным (o свете, газе и

т.п.) to be switched on

All the lights were on.

2.идти (о спектакле, фильме); демонстрироваться to be shown (of films, plays)

What’s on at the cinema this week?

be out не быть дома, на работе; отсутствовать not to be at one’s home, office

He is out at the moment.

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be over окончиться, завершиться to come to an end

The storm is over now; we can go.

be through (with) (за)кончить что-л., покончить с чeм-л. или кем-л. to have finished (a relationship, job, etc.)

He is through with his work.

I’m through with that fellow.

be up

1.встать, проснуться, быть на ногах, бодрствовать to be out of bed

I am always up at seven o’clock.

2.истекать (о сроке) to expire (of time, hoilday, agreement)

The time is up. My leave is up.

3.случаться, происходить to be going on

What’s up? (=What’s the matter?)

break down

1.сломать разрушить; сбить to smash down The workers broke down the old house.

2.сломаться, разрушиться, выйти из строя (о машине и т. п.) to stop working

The car broke down and I had to phone for help.

break in, break into врываться, вламываться to enter by force

Thieves broke in and stole the silver.

The house was broken into when the owner was оn holiday.

bring up воспитывать, растить to raise, to look after a child

My aunt brought up her three children without any help.

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call аt (a place) заходить куда-л. to pay a short visit usu. on some business

I called at the bank and arranged to transfer some money.

call back/phone back/ring back перезвонить to return a telephone call

I can’t talk to you now. I’ll call you back in ten minutes.

call for заходить за (кем-л. или чем-л.) to visit a place to collect a person or thing

I’ll call for you at six о ‘clock.

call in

1.заходить, заглядывать, завернуть (куда-л.) to visit briefly; drop in

I was out when he called in.

2.вызывать, приглашать (кого-л. для консультации и т. п.) to ask sb to come and do sth for you; send for

When he grew worse, he called in a second doctor. call off отменять (о встречах, собраниях и т.п.) to cancel

She called off the visit to the doctor.

call on (a person) заходить к кому-л. to pay a visit When did he call on you last?

call round/call оvеr заходить; навещать, посещать to make a short visit to a person or place

Do call round/over when you have the time.

call up / ring up звонить по телефону to make a telephone call I called him up and asked if he had any news.

check in регистрировать; записывать; регистрироваться (в гостинице, на собрании и. т. п.) to register

I checked in at the Ramada Hotel.

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check out отметиться при уходе с работы по окончании рабочего дня; расплатиться в гостинице и уехать to strike off one’s name from the register

She checked out of the hotel and took the train to Paris.

cheer up ободрять, поддерживать; утешать to make sb/sth mоrе cheerful

She bought strawberries to cheer herself up.

clean out очищать (путем опорожнения) to clean the inside of sth thoroughly; clear out

Clean out your desk.

I must clean the fish tank out.

clean up убирать to remove dirt etc. from somewhere; clear up, tidy up

He always expected other people to clean up after him.

clear away убирать (часто со стола ) to remove articles in order to make space; tidy away

He cleared away and made coffee.

Brody stood up and began to clear away the soup bowls.

clear out очищать, убирать to make sth empty and clean by removing things or throwing things away; clean out

I’ll clear out this drawer and you can put your things in it.

clear up убирать, приводить в порядок to make sth tidy and сlean; clean up, tidy up

It’s time to clear up.

C1ear up your own mess.

come across встречать, находить неожиданно to meet or find sb/sth by сhance

She came across some old photographs in a drawer.

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come back возвращаться to return

He came back from the war.

соmе from (of) принадлежать к, происходить из to belong to

He comes from (of) a poor family.

соmе in входить куда-л. to enter a room or house

Somebody knocked on my door and I said, ‘Come in.’

In the same way you can say go in, walk in, move in, dive in, break in

come on/come along в грамм. знач. междометия разг. ну-ка, ну давай used in orders to tell sb to hurry or to try harder

Come on! We don’t have much time. Давай-давай. У нас мало времени.

Come on, children, let’s have a little quiet. Ну-ка, ребята, не шумите.

Come оn! Try оnce more. Ну давай! Сделай ещe одну попытку.

сome over/come round зайти ненадолго, заглянуть (в гости) to visit sb for a short time

Сome over and see us sometime.

Would you like to come round tomorrow evening?

cross out вычеркивать to draw a line through

She crossed out three lines.

cut down (a tree) срубить (дерево) to fell it

How much is it going to cost us to cut all these trees down?

сut off

l. разъединять (по телефону) to disconnect

The telephone operator cut us off before we finished our conversation.

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