1000 Phrasal Verbs In Context

1000 Phrasal Verbs In Context © Matt Errey 2007

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1000 Phrasal Verbs in Context PQ pq (10/10)

put out

It took the firemen over an hour to put out the fire.

put out sth

put sth out

If they hadn’t put the fire

out so quickly, we could

have lost our factory.

✍ 

put through
His doctor thought he might have cancer, so she put him through a
series of tests.

put sb/sth through sth

(be) put through sth

New drugs are put
through many trials to
make sure they’re safe.

✍ ^

put through
Hold the line please. I’ll put your call through to Mr Gonzales as soon as
he’s free.

put sb/sth through
put sb/sth through to
sb/sth
The receptionist put him
through to the CEO when
she realised who he was.

✍ ^

put to
I put my idea for saving costs to the meeting, but they didn’t think our
executives would like flying in economy class instead of first class.

put sth to sb

If you have any ideas on
saving costs, put them to
the budget committee.

✍  see also:^ put forward (to)^

put
together

If they want to become the market leaders, they’ll have to put together a

great marketing plan.

put together sth

put sth together

She put an excellent
presentation together and
everyone was impressed.

✍  see also:^ piece together^

put up
Take out the loan before the banks put up their interest rates. put up sth^
put sth up

We have to put our prices
up or we won’t be able to
make a decent profit.

✍  see also:^ jack up (inf.)^

put up with
We can’t put up with the heat any longer. We’re going to buy an air
conditioner.

put up with sth/sb

We put up with David’s
bad behaviour because
he’s a genius at design.

✍  see also: stand for (used

for behaviour only)

queue up

When we went to the bank we used to queue up at the counter, but now

we take a number and sit down and wait until our number’s called out.

queue up

Don’t you hate it if you’ve

been queuing up for ages

and someone pushes in?

✍  see also:^ line up^

quieten
down

A guy got sick of his neighbour’s noisy dogs. After asking him to

quieten them down many times, he did it himself by shooting them.

quieten down
quieten down sb/sth
quieten sb/sth down
The kids were noisy until
the teacher came, but then
they quietened down.

✍  see also:^ calm down,^ pipe

down (inf), settle down