Forthycause's List: English Grammar

• Now that you've reminded me I guess I can stick around for four or five days longer
• The verbs gather and spread out always have a plural Subject.
• The forces will then spread out, securing roads and protecting food convoys to the interior.
• come along

  • come along (ARRIVE) phrasal verbto arrive or appear at a place:You go now and I'll come along later.You wait half an hour for a bus, then three come along at once!
• bear down

  • If someone or something bears down on you, they move quickly towards you in a threatening way.A group of half a dozen men entered the pub and bore down on the bar...= advance
• come up

  • to move towards someone:A young girl came up to me and asked for money.
• fall away

  • If parts of something fall away, they break off and drop to the ground:
    
    On the bathroom ceiling, some pieces of plaster had fallen away.
    
    The rear sections of the rocket fell away.
• come through

  • come through 1  come through (INFORMATION) phrasal verbIf a piece of information or a document comes through, you receive it:Have the test results come through yet?My visa still hasn't come through. come through 2  come through (EMOTION) phrasal verbIf an emotion comes through, other people can notice it:
• fall back

  • 1 LITERARY to move back suddenly from someone or something, often because you are frightened: She fell back in horror/disgust.
• fall in

  • fall in 1  fall in (SOLDIERS) phrasal verbIf soldiers fall in, they move into a line, one beside the other:"Company, fall in!" shouted the sergeant-major.He started to march away, and the others fell in behind him.
    
    Compare fall out (SOLDIERS). fall in 2  
    
    fall in (ROOF) phrasal verbIf a roof or ceiling falls in, it drops to the ground because it is damaged:Ten miners were trapped underground when the roof of the tunnel fell in.
• get about

  • to travel to a lot of places:Spain last week and Germany this week - he gets about, doesn't he!
• fall out (Your hair)
• get around

  • News of Helen's pregnancy soon got around the office.
• go under

  • go under1 [PHRASAL VERB] V PIf a business or project goes under, it becomes unable to continue in operation or in existence. (BUSINESS)If one firm goes under it could provoke a cascade of bankruptcies.= collapse
    
    2 [PHRASAL VERB] V PIf a boat, ship, or person in a sea or river goes under, they sink below the surface of the water.The ship went under, taking with her all her crew.= sink
• hang back

  • hang back1 [PHRASAL VERB] V PIf you hang back, you move or stay slightly behind a person or group, usually because you are nervous about something.I saw him step forward momentarily but then hang back, nervously massaging his hands.
    
    2 [PHRASAL VERB] V P on n, V PIf a person or organization hangs back, they do not do something immediately.They will then hang back on closing the deal...Even his closest advisers believe he should hang back no longer.
• get out

  • to go out to different places and socialize:We don't get out much since we had the children.
    
    get out 3  get out (BECOME KNOWN) phrasal verbIf news or information gets out, people hear about it although someone is trying to keep it secret:I don't want it to get out that I'm leaving before I've had a chance to tell Anthony.
• get in

  • get in 1  get in (ENTER) phrasal verbto succeed in entering a place, especially by using force or a trick:They must have got in through the bathroom window. get in 2  get in (ARRIVE) phrasal verb1 to arrive at your home or the place where you work:What time did you get in last night?
    2 If a train or other vehicle gets in at a particular time, that is when it arrives:
• be hanging up

  • You can use hang up to indicate that someone stops doing a particular sport or activity that they have regularly done over a long period. For example, when a footballer hangs up his boots, he stops playing football.Keegan announced he was hanging up his boots for good...
• go down

  • If a ship goes down, it sinks. If a plane goes down, it crashes out of the sky.Their aircraft went down during a training exercise.
• go down (The sun)
• move along

  • If a process moves along or if something moves it along, it progresses.Research tends to move along at a slow but orderly pace...Delay is part of the normal process, but I hope we can move things along.
• move in

  • When you move in somewhere, you begin to live there as your home.Her house was in perfect order when she moved in...Her husband had moved in with a younger woman...We'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together.≠ move out2 [PHRASAL VERB] V P, V P on nIf police, soldiers, or attackers move in, they go towards a place or person in order to deal with or attack them.Police moved in to disperse the crowd...Forces were moving in on the town of Knin.
• knock around

  • If someone knocks around or knocks about somewhere, they spend time there, experiencing different situations or just passing time....reporters who knock around in troubled parts of the world...I know nothing about him except that he knocked about South Africa for a while.
• move about

  • If you move around or move about, you keep changing your job or keep changing the place where you live. (in BRIT, also use move about)I was born in Fort Worth but we moved around a lot and I was reared in east Texas...He moved around the country working in orange groves.
• lie around

  • If things are left lying around or lying about, they are not tidied away but left casually somewhere where they can be seen. (in BRIT, also use lie about)People should be careful about their possessions and not leave them lying around...
• run around

  • If you run around, you go to a lot of places and do a lot of things, often in a rushed or disorganized way.No one noticed we had been running around emptying bins and cleaning up...I spend all day running around after the family...I will not have you running around the countryside without my authority.
• pull in

  • When a vehicle or driver pulls in somewhere, the vehicle stops there.He pulled in at the side of the road...The van pulled in and waited.
• pull over

  • If a vehicle pulls over, it moves to the side of the road and stops:Just pull over here, and I'll get out and walk the rest of the way.
• pull up

  • When a vehicle or driver pulls up, the vehicle slows down and stops.The cab pulled up and the driver jumped out.= draw up
• push in

  • to rudely join a line of people who are waiting for something, by moving in front of some of the people who are already there:I was waiting in the bus queue when two men pushed in in front of me.
• push on

  • When you push on, you continue with a journey or task.Although the journey was a long and lonely one, Tumalo pushed on.
• report back

  • to bring information to someone in authority:Find out their names and report back to me tomorrow.
• roll up

  • to arrive at a particular place or event, usually late:They rolled up at the party two hours late and rather drunk.
• roll in

  • to arrive in great numbers or amounts:Once our business gets started, the money will be rolling in.
• stick around

  • to stay somewhere for a period of time:You go - I'll stick around here a bit longer.
• stay on

  • stay on  stay on phrasal verbto continue to be in a place, job or school after the other people who were with you have left:Gill decided to stay on at university to do further research.We asked him to stay on as youth leader for another year.
• sign in

  • If you sign in, you officially indicate that you have arrived at a hotel or club by signing a book or form.I signed in and crunched across the gravel to my room.
• spread out

  • If people, animals, or vehicles spread out, they move apart from each other.Felix watched his men move like soldiers, spreading out into two teams.2 [PHRASAL VERB] V PIf something such as a city or forest spreads out, it gets larger and gradually begins to covers a larger area.Cities such as Tokyo are spreading out...
• stand aside

  • to leave a job or position so that someone else can have it instead:It's time he stood aside and let a more qualified person do the job.
• stay in

  • If you stay in during the evening, you remain at home and do not go out.Before we had our child the idea of staying in every night would have been horrific.≠ go out
• stay out

  • to not come home at night, or to go home late:Our cat usually stays out at night.My mum won't let me stay out late.
• turn back

  • turn back1 [PHRASAL VERB] V P prep/adv, V P, V P n (not pron), also V n PIf you turn back or if someone turns you back when you are going somewhere, you change direction and go towards where you started from.She turned back towards the crossroads...They were very nearly forced to turn back...Police attempted to turn back protesters marching towards the offices of President Ershad.2 [PHRASAL VERB] with brd-neg, V PIf you cannot turn back, you cannot change your plans and decide not to do something, because the action you have already taken makes it impossible.The administration has now endorsed the bill and can't turn back.
• turn out

  • If something turns out a particular way, it happens in that way or has the result or degree of success indicated.If I had known my life was going to turn out like this, I would have let them kill me...Sometimes things don't turn out the way we think they're going to...I was positive things were going to turn out fine.= work out
• turn up

  • If something that you have been looking for turns up, you find it unexpectedly:The missing letter eventually turned up inside a book.
• touch down (An aircraft)

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