Phrasal Verbs: Leave , Let, Look, Make , Pass , Pull

Leave

• To leave off: to stop

                  e.g. We’ll go out for a walk as soon as the rain leaves off.

• To leave out: to omit

                 e.g. Check your work to see that you haven’t left anything important out.

Let

• To let down :To fail to support

          e.g. My friends have promised to help me. I hope they won’t let me down the last minute.

• To let off : to excuse

             e.g. I’ll let you this time, but you’ll be punished if you do it again.

Look

• To look after: to take care of

                   e.g. Who will look after the house while we’re away?

• To look down on : to despise/to consider oneself superior to

                  e.g. White-collar workers shouldn’t look down on manual workers.

• To look  for : to search for

                   e.g. I’m looking for my pen. Have you seen it?

• To look into: to investigate

                 e.g. He has promised to look into the matter.

• To look on to/out on: to have a view over

                               e.g. My bedroom looks on to the street.

                                      Our hotel room looked out on the sea.

• To look up: to search for words , facts in a dictionary etc.

                 e.g. Please use the dictionary to look up the difficult words.

• To look up to : to respect somebody

                   e.g. The boys looked up to the young man as their leader.

Make

• To make for : to go in the direction of

                   e.g. They all made for the exit as soon as the match had finished.

• To make out : 1. to write out (cheque , list etc)

                e.g. He made out a cheque for 1000 dollar.

                       2. to manage to see, read , understand…

           e.g. The telephone line was so bad that I couldn’t make out what he was saying.

                     3. to pretend

               e.g. She made out she was ill so as not to do gym.

• To make up : 1. to  invent

                     e.g. he made up a good  excuse to explain his absence.

                      2. to use cosmetics

                    e.g. Actors make up before going on stage.

                     3. to end a quarrel

                   e.g. Bob and I don’t quarrel anymore . We’ve made it up.

• To make up for: to compensate for

                     e.g. Her beauty makes up for stupidity.

                            We must work hard to make up for lost time.

Pass

• To pass away/on : to die

                       e.g. His poor father passed away/ on in his sleep.

Pull

• To pull down: to demolish

                     e.g. That old building is dangerous .It will have to be pulled down.

• To pull up: to come to a stop

                   e.g. The driver pulled up at the red lights.