Phrasal verbs about time
Sligo live will be coming around, so we should start preparing the instruments!
The shop will be closing soon and the shop assistant is hurrying customes along.
The meeting is coming up next week again. Do you know why?
It's amazing how short summer seemed. It slipped away!
There's a lot of research leading up the meeting, so we'd better start as soon as possible.
I think you should take a gap year. That will break things up.
Did you leave a message? it completely passed me by!
Why does the teacher spin the class out for no reason?
I should pull my socks up if I really want to pass the exam!
We will set apart this Friday to do the household chores.
Will you free up some time for me next week?
This exam will be held over until I have some time to study.
Do you think we will fin in the revision this week before the exam?
The teachers have put back the exam session due to the roadworks outside the university.
Don't set schedules back too much or we will not be able to go on holidays.
You shouldn't fritter time away if you really want to pass the exam!
The tenants have decided to eke out the sweets they eat every week.
Why are you dragging the meeting out?
The staff have decided to bring forward the meeting because the manager will be on holidays from Friday.
I think I should space out my classes.
It is very common to think that we have plenty of time to study for an exam until we realised that the exam period has crept up on.
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Phrasal verbs about time
Sligo live will be coming around, so we should start preparing the instruments!The shop will be closing soon and the shop assistant is hurrying customers along.
The meeting is coming up next week again. Do you know why?
It's amazing how short summer seemed. It slipped away!
There's a lot of research leading up to the meeting, so we'd better start as soon as possible.
I think you should take a gap year. That will break things up.
Did you leave a message? it completely passed me by!
Why does the teacher spin [I don' know what you mean by 'spin'] the class out for no reason?
I should pull up my socks up if I really want to pass the exam! [The way you wrote it is not incorrect, but my version is more common]
We will set apart aside this Friday to do the household chores.
Will Can/Could you free up some time for me next week?
This exam will be held over postponed until I have some time to study.
Do you think we will fin [I don't know what you mean by 'fin'] in the revision this week before the exam?
The teachers have put back postponed the exam session due to the roadworks road work outside the university.
Don't set push the schedule back too much or we will not be able to go on holiday [very common mistake. In Spanish 'vacaciones' is plural but in English 'holiday' (British) and 'vacation' (American) are both singular].
You shouldn't fritter time away if you really want to pass the exam!
The tenants have decided to eke out the sweets they eat every week. [This is correct, but typically 'eke out' is used in a sense where it is necessary to ration something. Since sweets are a treat (a pleasure), it sounds odd to use the term here. But other English speakers may disagree.]
Why are you dragging the meeting out?
The staff have [In American English we would say 'has'] decided to bring forward the meeting forward because the manager will be on holiday from Friday on. [or '... on holiday after Friday']
I think I should space out my classes.
It is very common to think that we have plenty of time to study for an exam until we realise that the exam period has crept up on us.
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