Sentence examples for phrasal verbs from inspiring English sources

After twenty years of near-daily contact with British English, your American columnist is still learning new British phrasal verbs.

The present study examined whether cognitive linguistic methods facilitate Chinese EFL learners' acquisition of English polysemous phrasal verbs.

Ishiguro's avoidance of phrasal verbs is a major problem here - it gives his narrator a circumlocutious, cautious air which isn't really very helpful.

The results also show that in terms of the frequency of phrasal verbs, EU documents show some similarity to written academic English.

The analysis revealed that the top 25 phrasal verbs account for more than 60% of all phrasal verb constructions in the corpus.

Phrasal verbs, known to represent one of the most difficult aspects of learning English, are highly productive and widely used by native speakers.

The phrasal verb to make over has been in business since 1546, meaning "to hand over" and then "to transfer property".

But I still hear the useful phrasal verb to snake-check, which many veterans know means "to examine closely".

Although labelled vi, this phrasal verb can surely only be transitive in usage, indicating a lexicographical error.

The purpose of this study is to identify the most frequent phrasal verb combinations in EU documents.

There is something troubling about Ishiguro's prose style that took me a while to pin down, and it's this - he hardly ever uses a phrasal verb.