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The Oxford Phrase List™ The Oxford Phrase List is a list of 750 common phrases from A1 to C1 level. It includes idioms, phrasal verbs, compounds, collocations, prepositional phrases and other common fixed phrases. each other high school...

The Oxford Phrase List™ The Oxford Phrase List is a list of 750 common phrases from A1 to C1 level. It includes idioms, phrasal verbs, compounds, collocations, prepositional phrases and other common fixed phrases. each other high school living room A1 end in sth his or her look at sb/sth every day How about…? look for sb/sth a few every week How are you? look like sb/sth a few minutes every year How long…? lots of… a few times excuse me How many…? millions of… a few years family member How much…? mobile phone a good idea find out How often…? more than… Good idea! find out about sth important for sb/sth next time It’s a good idea to… find out more It is important for sb/sth to do next year That’s a good idea! sth for a long time next month agree with sb I’m sorry next week a long time a little in April No problem a little help for a moment for example in July, etc. of course a little money in bed Oh no! a little sugar for lunch for many years in class Oh yes a lot in fact old friend a lot to do for the first time get home in front of once a… a lot of sth in my opinion once a month all day get married get off in school once a week all night in space once a year all over the world get off the bus I’m getting off here. in summer one day anything else in winter on holiday anyone else get on in the centre on Monday a period of time get on the bus in the centre of sth on Tuesday, etc. around the world Are you getting on? in the country on television arrive at… get ready I live in the country. on the television arrive in… get ready for sth the best… in the country on the beach ask for sth get ready to do sth in the future on the floor at home get there in the morning on the internet at school get to… in the afternoon on the left at the beginning of sth get up in the evening on the right at the end go back in the north on the phone at the end of sth go back to… in the south be on the phone at the moment go home in the east talk on the phone at the same time go into sth in the west on TV at the weekend She went into her room. in the past out of sth at university good at sth in the street over there at work good for sb/sth in the summer pay for sth away from sb/sth Good morning in the winter phone call bad for sb/sth Good afternoon in town phone number bad news Good evening it is important to do sth plan for sth bad thing good news It takes… make plans for sth the bad things about sth good thing It takes an hour to get there. What are your plans for because of the good things about sth kind of sb/sth next year? begin with sth go out What kind of music do you play with sb/sth be going to do sth go to bed like? post office best friend go to school know how pretty good black and white go to work know how to do sth really enjoy car park grow up last time I really enjoyed it. cell phone Guess what… the last time really good city centre half an hour last year really like in the city centre hard work last month I’d really like to… come from… have fun last summer right now come into sth have got last week See you He came into the room. have time last weekend See you around differences between A and B have time for sth learn how to do sth See you later difficult for sb have time to do sth listen to sb/sth See you soon it is difficult for sb to do sth he or she live with sb sit down © Oxford University Press 1/4 someone else X years later depend on sb/sth in the air something else X days later depend on sb/sth for sth in the end speak to sb X minutes later depend on sth in the middle spend time X years old do well in the middle of sth spend time doing sth You’re welcome each one in the same way spend time with sb end with sth in this way stand up even more… it depends stay in stay in a hotel A2 even more difficult it all depends even more exciting I think so stay in bed a bit everyone else I don’t think so I’m staying in tonight. able to do sth except for lead to sth such as a couple of sth fall in love less than… swimming pool add to sth fall in love with sb Let me… talk about sb/sth again and again fall off Let me help you. thank you all about… fall off sth let me know thank you very much Tell me all about it. far away look after sb/sth/yourself that day all kinds of… feel good look back at sth the 20th century all over… feel like sth Look back at your notes. the 21st century all over the world fill sth in look sth up the 19th century all sorts of… find it difficult to do sth make a mistake the next day all the time first of all make money there is a long time ago focus on sb/sth make sense there are a long way followed by sb/sth make sure there was a number of sth for the rest of sth make sure of sth there were a large number of sth for this reason make sure that… think about sb/sth apply for sth get back much better think of sb/sth art gallery get better not at all This is… as a result get lost I didn’t enjoy it at all. This is my dad. as a result of sth get out no way this kind of… as part of sth get out of sth No way! this morning as part of a team give up There is no way (that)… this afternoon as soon as give sth up Oh dear this evening as well go and… Oh well this time as well as sb/sth go and get help on earth this year at first go away on the ground this summer at least go down on the other side this weekend at the age of… Prices are going down. on the other side of sth thousands of… at the start of sth go down sth on the wall too long at the time Go down the road. on time too far at that time go for sth on top of sth/sb too hard at the time of sth go for a walk one or two too much at the top go up ordinary people too many at the top of sth Prices are going up. pay attention town centre based on sth good luck pay attention to sb/sth in the town centre be allowed to do sth happen to sb/sth per hour TV show believe in sb/sth happy with sb/sth kilometres per hour wait for sb/sth belong to sb have a look miles per hour wake up welcome to sth belong to sth have a look at sth pick sb/sth up What about…? be made of sth have got to police officer work as sth by the end of sth Have you ever…? police station work for sb/sth care about sth health problems public transport work hard carry on hear about sb/sth put sth on work together carry on with sth I don’t care quite a lot work together for sth carry sth out if necessary quite a lot of sth work together to do sth check in if you want to reasons why work with sb check in at… I guess refer to sb/sth would like check sth in I’m afraid… refer to sb/sth as sth I would like… check out I mean report on sth I would like to… check out of sth in business respond to sth/sb Would you like…? climate change in danger save money X hours a day close to sb/sth in history science fiction X times a… come back the first time in history search for sth/sb X times a day Come on! in hospital so that… X times a week connected to sth in love solution to sth X years ago connected with sb/sth in love with sb sort of sth X days ago credit card in prison What sorts of things do you X months ago deal with sb in some cases do? X weeks ago deal with sth instead of sound like sb/sth © Oxford University Press The Oxford Phrase List™ 2/4 start with sb/sth be going on in case… participate in sth such a/an… What’s going on? just in case… point of view such a good idea be known as sb/sth in charge of sb/sth point out take care of sb/sth/yourself benefit from sth in contrast point sth out take off be supposed to do sth in contrast to sb/sth point out that… take sth off be supposed to be sth in favour of sb/sth prepared to do sth take part break up in general primary school take part in sth break up with sb in order of sth prime minister take place by the time (that)… in order to do sth put sth up the best thing can’t afford sth in other words quite a… the best thing to do can’t afford to do sth in particular quite a good player the first thing care for sb in public quite a long time the first thing I did caused by sth in recent years raise money the following… check sb/sth out in response to sth raise money for sth the following day choose to do sth in terms of sth rather than the important thing clean up in the case of sth reaction to sth the most important thing clean sth up in the form of sb/sth relate to sth/sb the other side of sth click on sth in the way (that)… relating to sth/sb the other side of the world come up with sth in this case related to sth/sb the rest of sth compared with sth in time respect for sb/sth the rest of the world concentrate on sth in time for sth result in sth these days consist of sb/sth in time to do sth rise in sth they say… decide on sth in touch a rise in the number of visitors They say you can’t buy depending on be in touch run out happiness. developing countries get in touch run out of sth throw sth away due to sb/sth keep in touch search engine turn sth off economic growth in touch with sb secondary school turn sth on end up I wonder if… set sth up up and down even if leave sb/sth out slow down Why not…? even though likely to do sth so far work out exactly the same look forward to sth some kind of… worried about sb/sth experience in sth look out succeed in doing sth would love to do sth fail to do sth make a difference suffer from sth write sth down fall asleep make sth up sure to do sth far more manage to do sth take sb/sth on far more important mean to do sth take up sth B1 far more opportunities far too I didn’t mean to. take up too much room a bit more more and more take sth up far too much homework a bit of sth move on take up golf fed up access to sth for a while move on to sth tell the truth after all for free no longer tend to do sth a great deal for instance not any longer tend to be sth a great deal better for life no more than… thanks to sb/sth a great deal of sth a job for life not even that’s it aim to do sth for long I didn’t even see it. the case a kind of… for some time not necessarily be the case that… I had a kind of feeling this get on with sb not only the fact that… might happen. get to know sb not only… but also… those who… a little bit get used to sth on a regular basis There are those who say… a little more get used to doing sth on my own to do with sb/sth along with sb/sth global warming on their own be to do with sb/sth a lot more go ahead on your own have to do with sb/sth alternative to sth go ahead with sth on the other hand together with and so on go wrong on the street too bad apart from growth in sth on the streets try and… a range of sth have no idea on the way turn out a wide range of sth have sth in common or something turn out to be sth as if… have sth in common with sb or somebody turn sth up as if nothing had happened have sth in common with sth or somewhere unable to do sth as much as hear of sb/sth or two up to sth as soon as possible heart disease a day or two up to 60 miles per hour at last high street a moment or two way of life at risk higher education a pound or two well known at times if I were you ought to work on sth attached to sb/sth in addition out there work sth out a variety of sth in addition to sb/sth over the years wrong with sb/sth be about to do sth in a way that... over time you see © Oxford University Press The Oxford Phrase List™ 3/4 B2 draw attention to sb/sth engage in sth put sth together quality of life by no means call on sb a bit of a… engaged in sth ranging from call on sb to do sth account for sth ever since(…) prices ranging from €25 to €60 consistent with sth accused of sth exposure to sth regarded as sth dedicated to sth act as sth far from sth relevant to sb/sth deprive sb/sth of sth aimed at sb far from doing sth rely on sb/sth dispose of sb/sth aimed at doing sth figure sb/sth out role model follow sth up all the way find yourself doing sth set out for that matter a means of sth get in short of sth for the benefit of sb a means of communication get into sth so as to do sth for the sake of sb/sth a means of transport The train got in late. something like… get away with sth appeal to sb get over sth/sb sort sb/sth/yourself out given that… apply to sb/sth You’ll get over it. stick to sth have sb/sth in mind as a whole get rid of sb/sth subject to sth have sb/sth in mind for sth as far as I am concerned go off sum up have nothing to do with sb/sth as follows… She went off to get a drink. sum sth up be nothing to do with sb/sth as for sb/sth A bomb went off. take advantage of sb/sth in accordance with sth as long as… The alarm went off. take sth into account in any case associated with sth The lights went off. take over in a position to do sth associated with doing sth go on to do sth take over from sb in conjunction with sb/sth as though… go through sth that is in connection with sb/sth at once had better the vast majority of sth in effect at present hang on turn into sth in full at some point human being up to sb in line with sth at the end of the day human rights when it comes to sth in practice at this point if only… when it comes to doing sth in respect of sth at this stage I have to say… whether or not… in such a way (that)… awareness of sth in action would rather… in the absence of sb/sth back sb/sth up in advance in the course of… be charged with sth in an attempt to do sth in the event of sth be charged with doing sth in part in place C1 in the face of sth in the hands of sb be derived from sth be expected to do sth in relation to sb/sth above all in the light of sth be known to do sth in spite of sth all but in light of sth be made up of sth in the first place all the more in the meantime be surrounded by sb/sth in the near future as far as sb/sth is concerned in the midst of sth be to blame in turn as of… in the presence of sb be to blame for sth investment in sth as opposed to in the presence of sth both sides I would say... as such in the wake of sb/sth both sides of the argument loads of sb/sth as to sth involvement in sth on both sides mental health as to how… let alone bound to do sth more or less as to whether… little more than… bound to be sth no doubt at the expense of sb/sth live on sth bring sb up no matter… at the hands of sb may well by now no matter how… back and forth nothing like call for sth no matter what… bear sb/sth in mind not to mention case study nothing but bear in mind that… on behalf of sb come across sb/sth on board keep sb/sth in mind on the part of sb come true once again keep in mind that… over the course of… a dream come true one another be attributed to sb put it concerned about sth on the basis of sth be entitled to sth How shall I put it? concerned with sth on the one hand be found to do sth seek to do sth confidence in sb/sth opposed to sth be meant to do sth set to do sth contribute to sth or so be reported to be sth the extent to which… control over sb/sth other than be reported to have sth to date cope with sth potential for sth be said to be sth his best work to date decline in sth pretty much be said to have sth up against sth prior to bring sth about with regard to sb/sth a decline in student numbers prove to be sth bring sth up with respect to sth dependent on sb/sth put sth forward by means of sth with the exception of sb/sth despite the fact that… © Oxford University Press The Oxford Phrase List™ 4/4