30 MUST-KNOW Phrasal Verbs in 30 minutes | Phrasal Verbs with 'COME' in context 📚

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Hi there, this is Harry and welcome back to  advanced English lessons with Harry where I  
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try to help you to get a better understanding of  the English language. This is an advanced English  
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lesson, looking at phrasal verbs and looking at  phrasal verbs with the verb 'come,' 'to come.' So,  
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as we've always said phrasal verbs are quite  common they use in every day but they're always  
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used with very simple verbs and in this case, it's  the verb to come. Now, some of these phrasal verbs  
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are going to be two parts, and some of them are  going to be three parts so it's just an extra  
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preposition. So most phrasal verbs are verb plus  preposition. Some have verb plus to prepositions,  
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and it's really important because they give  it a very different meaning. As you know,  
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so I said it's an advanced English lesson, looking  at phrasal verbs with 'come.' We've got 30 in  
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total. So try to keep awake. Okay, so I'll make  it as interesting as possible. But you've got 30  
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phrasal verbs two and three parts. So let's get  started. The first one is come about come about.  
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Now, we can ask a question. How did that come  about means? How did that happen? Or when did  
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that arise? How did that come about? So if you  have a problem in the office, and a customer  
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is complaining about something your boss might  ask you well, how did that come about? Meaning,  
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why is the client or the customer complaining?  What happened to put them in a position that  
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he had to complain? So how did that come about?  Meaning how did it arise. Or how did it happen?  
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Number two to come across. When we come across  something, we usually find it by accident,  
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we didn't set out to look for it. But we do find  it. So for example, if you go to a car boot sale,  
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which people love to go to or you go to one  of these markets or fairs, you're just looking  
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around walking around. And suddenly at the corner  of your eye, you see something really interesting  
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on one of the tables, and you see it and the price  is really good at little gold medallion or a watch  
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or a necklace or a ring. And it's got a really  generous price on it. So you buy it so when you  
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go home to your friend you say look what I came  across in the market. Wow, it's beautiful. Yeah,  
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and it only cost me 10 euros. So to come across  something means to find something accidentally  
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but you didn't set out to look for it in the  first place. Okay to come across. Number three  
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to come after. Well, we can come after somebody  Okay, someone's coming after me. I'm running down  
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the street and there's somebody 100 metres  behind shouting and screaming Stop, stop,  
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stop. They are coming after me. Okay, perhaps it's  a gang or perhaps it's a thief or perhaps it's  
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somebody else trying to catch you. They're coming  after you. And another way we can also use come  
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after when something follows something else. The  news will come after this programme. Or the news  
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will come after this announcement that is coming  from the governments of the government are making  
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a very important announcement they interrupt the  programmes and they would say normal programmes  
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will come after this announcement meaning they  will follow this announcement to come after.  
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Number four, come along. Okay. So this often is  a request or an order we will give somebody come  
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along with me. Okay, so the teacher might say to  the disobedient student, you'd have to come along  
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with me to the principal's office and explain why  you haven't done your homework for the last three  
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days. Okay. Come along to the party. That's just a  general invitation come along, whenever you like,  
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come along at seven, or eight or nine, it's an  open house, whenever you're ready, you just come  
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and we will welcome you. So come along, come  along, anytime meaning, anytime that you wish,  
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our house or door is always open, particularly for  the party. So to come along. And don't forget to  
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purchase with Preply.com. Number five, come apart.  Now, when something comes apart, it usually breaks  
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up in small pieces. So you buy your nephew or your  niece, some what you think nice little present for  
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their birthday. And when they're playing with it,  it breaks. And so it comes apart. And so the poor  
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niece or nephew or in tears that they present  from their favourite and didn't actually work  
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out that way. So you're horrified. So you take  it back to the shop the next day and say, Look
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at this, only five minutes, five minutes, they  were playing with it, and it came apart in pieces.  
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And I didn't do anything, they didn't do anything.  I think it needs to be replaced. And they say,  
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of course, madam, we will replace it immediately.  So when something comes apart, it breaks up or  
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splits into different pieces come round number  six, come round. Well, you can use this as again,  
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a general invitation. So perhaps somebody new has  moved into your area, okay, and you say, Oh, look,  
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it's nice to meet you. Why don't you come round  for a cup of tea? So it's a nice way to invite  
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somebody to your home, come round to invite. Or  you say yeah, I'll come round later. But I have  
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to wait until my husband comes home from work.  So he can look after the kids or come round in a  
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few minutes. Or if you're passing by your mother's  or your parents' house on the way home from work,  
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and you give them a call on the phone when the car  is stationary, of course, I'll come round in about  
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15 minutes, I'm just on my way home from work,  but I'll drop in to see you, I'll come round. And  
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we'll have a cup of tea and you can tell me all  of the problems set to come round. And if you do  
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to roll out these videos and lessons to help you.  Number seven, come at. When somebody comes at you,  
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it's usually with the intention of attacking  you. So he came at me with this knife, and I  
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had to protect myself and put my hands up to my  face. Or he came at the police officer with a big  
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stick during the protest. So when somebody has the  intention deliberately of attacking you, they come  
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at you with some weapon, a rifle, a gun, a knife,  stick, a brick, a bottle, whatever it might be,  
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but the intention is to hurt and cause physical  damage. So to come at somebody and they usually  
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come at somebody with something. Number eight  come before that. When something comes before  
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it usually means that it is more important than  something else. Okay, so to come before. Yeah,  
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so the principle or the director comes before  everybody else in the organisation, meaning  
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he's the head of the organisation. And he's  considered to be more important than the others  
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Yes. Or perhaps when we talk about meal times, the  starter comes before the main course, which comes  
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before the dessert. So that's the order in which  things appear. First course meaning the starter,  
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the main course meaning the main dish. And then  finally, if you're lucky, you get a dessert or  
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the third course or to come before something  means the order of importance. Number nine to  
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come between. Well, when we come between people  it means we get in the middle of some round never  
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come between a husband and wife who are having  an argument it means don't take sides of your  
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two best friends who are married or having a bit  of a fight or an argument. Best to sit out, not  
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to take sides because you're going to end up in  a bad place. Yeah, you're going to end up on the  
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naughty step because you'll have sided with him or  her and the other person that's going to be very  
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upset so never come between two people who are  having an argument. Or indeed if you've got a pet  
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dog never come between your dog and his bowl of  food, because he might be nice and friendly when  
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you're playing with him. But if you don't let him  get his food, you might become a little bit angry  
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and aggressive. So don't come between the dog and  his daily meal. Okay, so to get in the middle,  
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or to stop or prevent somebody from getting  something okay. To come between. And number 10,  
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to come buy something. So we asked a question,  How did you come by that? And to come by means,  
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how did you get it? Where did you get it from? So  you're, again, you're showing your friend, this  
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beautiful necklace that you have, or this pendant  that you bought? Or this beautiful gold or silver  
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ring. And they say, Oh, wow, that's really, really  beautiful. How did you come by that? Meaning, how  
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did you get it? While I was in that market? I was  in that car boot sale that I went to last Saturday  
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or Sunday, and you weren't available and had some  really interesting things. But this just caught my  
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eye. It's really beautiful. I'm not sure how much  it's really worth. But I only paid 10 euros for  
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it. Yeah. So how did you come by something? Means  how did you get it? How did you acquire it? Okay,  
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so just remember that come by acquire or get Okay,  so you're still with me, then we're on to number  
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11. So as I said, we've got 30 of these in total,  all phrasal verbs with the verb calm. So number 11  
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is to come down on, come down on. And this is all  about punishment to come down on is when somebody  
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gets punished severely, okay. So perhaps the  courts or the judges sitting in the courts come  
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down on those people involved in drug trafficking  or people trafficking, or indeed, they may come  
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down on those people involved in antisocial  behaviour, like drinking in the streets,  
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or drinking in the parks or annoying the elderly.  So to come down on somebody means to criticise  
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heavily, or to punish heavily for something that  they have done. So that's number 11. To come down  
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on, number 12 is another three-part verb, okay,  and this has come down to a very different meaning  
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come down to so when we use come down to it means  that it ends up that way eventually. So when we  
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talk about arguments, what the government are  doing, or what local developers are doing, why  
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they're doing this, why they are building that,  why are they changing laws, somebody might say,  
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Well, look, it all comes down to money in the  end, so meaning money is the root of all evil,  
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it comes down to money. In the end, you could be  negotiating with your boss for an increase in some  
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payment or to get some bonuses for the staff on  your team, whatever it might be. And your boss  
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says, Well, you got really good conditions here.  You know, we give you free food in the canteen,  
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and you know, all these other extras. Yeah, that's  fine. But it all comes down to money. In the end,  
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these guys want extra money in their pocket,  because they've got to pay extra grocery expenses  
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because of inflation, whatever it might be. But it  all comes down to money in the end meaning finally  
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whatever you you decide whatever you think at the  end of the day, it's a question of money to come  
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down to something. Okay, next to come down with  again, another three-part phrasal verb here to  
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come down with something. Usually, we use this  when somebody becomes ill. So to come down with  
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the flu means to be sick with the flu. To come  down with a toothache means to have a bad tooth.  
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To come down with a sore back means you have a  sore back. So you can't make it into the office,  
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and you have to send a text or an email to  somebody. I'm really sorry. Can't make it  
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today. I've come down with food poisoning. I ate  some chicken yesterday. Obviously it wasn't good.  
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I've come down with the flu over the weekend.  I'm not going to be able to make it into work on  
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Monday. I've come down with a terrible headache  and toothache I've gone to have to go to the  
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doctor's or try to get it to get into the office  by lunchtime. So to come down with something means  
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to fall ill with something toothache headaches,  stomach ache, flu, whatever it might be to come  
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down with. Number 14 is to come forward. Okay  to come forward. Usually, when somebody comes  
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forward, it's usually to help them so police  investigations they often ask the public to come  
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forward with any information they have that might  help their investigation. So if there's been an  
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accident on the road or some problem, they might  ask other motorists to come forward with some of  
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these webcam photos that they might have had or  dash comps that they've had on the dashboard of  
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the car to come forward with the information,  or somebody came forward with some very helpful  
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information at the last meeting. That was, we were  able to explain the situation quite easily. So  
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when somebody comes forward, it's usually to offer  help, or to provide some information come forward.  
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Number 15 come into. If you come into something,  it means you gain something a sum of money,  
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property, stocks and shares. So often when we  say somebody has come into something, it means  
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that they have inherited something in a will from  an aunt, an uncle, a grandmother, a godmother or  
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a mother and father. So when somebody dies, they  usually have a will. And in the will, they will  
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organise their state their assets and decide who  gets what. So have you come into a little sum of  
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money, then you've inherited something from that  relation or a friend when they have died. Okay,
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so you get a letter in the post, you don't  recognise the writing, but it's from a legal  
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firm and you turn to your partner and say, Wow,  you never guess what, I've come into a little bit  
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of money. What What do you mean? Well, my old  uncle Albert's, you know, the guy I mentioned,  
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he died and he left me 2000 Euro, that's really,  really generous. So we can get that extension  
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done. So to come into a bit of money come into  a fortune, come into a small fortune, some form  
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of inheritance. Number 16. Come on with okay to  come on with means to develop or to progress. He's  
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coming on well with his English. So if you've been  taking English lessons, and if you're making some  
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improvement, or your teacher tells you that you're  improving well, with those verbs and adjectives,  
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or you're improving well, with your conversational  skills, but you need to focus a little bit on  
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this, then you, you have come on well, with your  progress, you've come on well, with your English  
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progress, you've come on well with whatever you  are studying. So to come on with means to develop,  
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or to improve, or to progress. So you go to the  school to talk to the teacher. And the teacher  
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says, yeah, he's coming on well, with everything,  most of the subjects are really, really good. He  
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just has to be a little bit more attentive in  class to come on well, with something. So on to  
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number 17. Number 17 is to come off, that this  can be just a very simple explanation come off  
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means when something falls off, or breaks off,  okay? So if you're trying to open the door,  
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and you pull the door, handle a little bit too  firmly, it might come off in your hand, oh my god,  
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how am I going to get out of this room, the  door handle has come off. So you are in a panic,  
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you send a text or somebody come and rescue me the  door handle has come off in my hand as I tried to  
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open the door, or you tried to open the window and  the handle of the window comes off. Or sometimes  
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you're trying to open the window in the car, the  old fashioned cars, you had one of these roll up  
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handles and they often in the old cars would come  off in your hand. So when something comes off,  
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it breaks off, or it falls off. So the handle  came off in my hand or the top of the kettle  
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came off in my hand when I was trying to fill  the kettle to make a cup of tea. So usually  
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some accident happens that means that something  just falls apart probably is broken, or a screw  
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dropped out or it's just old. Come off. Number  18. To come out with to come out with. Usually,  
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this refers to somebody's speech when they say  something unexpected, or something that somebody  
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might not like, okay, he just came out with  this accusation. I was sitting there. And all  
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of a sudden he accused me of taking his mobile  phone. I hadn't taken his mobile phone. I didn't  
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even see it there. So he just came out with this.  Or perhaps when you're looking after your kids,  
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maybe you're looking after your niece or nephew,  and they start using their first words. Wow. It  
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was so funny. He just came out with my name. I  wasn't expecting him to call me Mike. Yeah, he  
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just came out. Yeah. So to come out with something  means unexpectedly, suddenly something that you  
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heard either positively like the first words  of a child or something negative and somebody  
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comes out with some accusation or something quite  ridiculous. Yes to come out with. Number 19 come  
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over. But we had before come round and come over  is very similar. Yeah. So you, you might be on  
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the mobile phone or texting your friend. Why don't  you come over for dinner next week and we'll have  
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a good chat. We haven't had a sit down and caught  up with each other for such a long time. So why  
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don't you come over, bring your partner bring your  other half or your better half, whatever way you  
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express it. But why don't you come over? Let's  say Thursday or Friday of next week, there's a  
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holiday weekend. So it'd be a good time to catch  up. So to come over means to visit somebody. Okay?  
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So it's usually by invitation, somebody's asking  you to come over, or you can ask somebody else,  
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do you want me to come over and help you fix that  handle on the door? Do you want me to come over  
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and help you to paint the room? Do you want me to  come over and help you shovel the snow off your  
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driveway if you can't get the car out. So all of  those sorts of things will be offers of help way  
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and assistance where you will offer to go and help  you, your friend or family member with some issue  
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that they have. So to come over, yeah. Okay. So  next to come over to now here is one of those  
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three-part verbs that is very, very different  than the previous one, the previous one number 19,  
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we have come over means to to visit, now we have  come over to nothing to do with visiting. So when  
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somebody comes over to it means they change their  position, change their mind, change their opinion,  
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change their support. Okay. So if you have a  particular point of view, you're making some  
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argument. And then a friend says, Yeah, I think  you're actually right. So they come over to your  
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side, meaning they now begin to support your side  of the argument. And you look around the room and  
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ask Is there anybody else willing to come over to  my side, somebody's willing to support me, because  
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I really think I'm right, in this particular  situation. So when somebody comes over to someone,  
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or comes over to something, it's all about  changing the position, or their opinion, or their  
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support for somebody or something. Okay. So when  the government is putting forward some proposals,  
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some suggestions, then they may be looking for  some support from members of the opposition and  
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government and hoping for them to come over  to their side of the house of the chamber  
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or the government rooms to support them in their  initiative or their proposals to come over to the  
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case, it's all about changing opinion, changing  views, changing sides. Number 21 to come through.  
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They are still coming through. Come through that  we can use this in a few different ways come  
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through is about getting through some problem.  Okay. So he has come through a very difficult  
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time in his life, perhaps he had lost a couple of  jobs, perhaps he had been unemployed for a while,  
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perhaps he was having difficulties financially.  But he finally came through the easy got a job  
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well paid, got back on his feet, was able to  pay off his debts, and after a period of time,  
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began to enjoy life again. So he really came  through that particular problem. So it means that  
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to get through or to recover from a particular  a particularly bad situation in his life,  
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you can come through an operation, okay, so if  you go into hospital for some type of operation,  
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and the doctor says, Well, look, he's been heavily  sedated for seven or eight hours, he should come  
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through in an hour or so meaning he will become  awake, he might not be completely awake. But he'd  
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begin to recover very, very slowly. So he'll  come through, and I think he's got to make a  
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full recovery. So to come through, okay, guys.  So we're getting through these quite quickly,  
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hope you're enjoying those. And we're on  to number or just finished number 21. So
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now moving on to number 22. So nine to go.  Number 22 is to come together. And that can  
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be a very simple situation to come together is  to meet up. So we're coming together next week  
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to discuss these plans. So somebody's organised  a meeting, and we're going to come together,  
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we'll come together as a group, and we'll share  our views or opinions, and then we'll make our  
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decision. So to come together. Okay, so that  means about people meeting with each other to  
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discuss something of common interest, or could we  even just to celebrate a birthday, or a wedding,  
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whatever it might be, okay. Now, come together  can also be used when things work out, well,  
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ads, great, everything has come together at  last, meaning all the little parts have fitted  
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together. We've got the marketing plan. We've got  the design, right. We've got the deadline and date  
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set out for the launch. We've got all the sales  people trained, it has all finally come together.  
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We really put in a lot of work, but at last,  it's there. So when something comes together,  
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it's all get in the way you want it everything  going according to plan. Okay, so to come  
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together. Number 23, to come under. Now, when  we talk about to come under, it's usually to do  
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with some pressure, somebody's trying to get you  to do something somebody's trying to get you to  
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change your opinion. Yes. So he's coming under  a lot of pressure from his father to drop out  
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of this course because his results have been  really bad. He doesn't really want to change,  
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he actually likes it, but he's finding it a bit  of a struggle. So he's coming under pressure from  
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his father to drop out and change his particular  course. Or you could come under a lot of pressure  
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from the local council, that they want you to  sell part of your garden to make way for the  
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new motorway, you might not want to lose part  of your garden because you'd like the garden,  
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but the counsellor putting huge pressure on you,  and you're coming under pressure every week or  
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every month. So to come under pressure means  sustained pressure, somebody's trying to get  
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you to change your mind to change your opinion or  to do what you want them to do. Governments often  
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come under pressure from the people who have voted  for them. So they come into power on the basis  
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that they're going to change this, change that and  do this and do that. And they never get anything  
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done. So the people start complaining, they start  demonstrating, they start writing letters to  
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newspapers, posting articles on the internet.  So this brings about a situation where the  
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government come under pressure from all interested  parties, and they have to take that into account.  
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And perhaps they may back off, or perhaps they  may change their mind. So to come under usually  
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come under pressure. Number 24 is to come up.When  something comes up, it usually arises suddenly,  
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without notice, or without us expecting it. Okay,  so perhaps we've got an appointment with our boss,  
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perhaps we got an appointment with our friend  for lunch, perhaps we're going to have a game  
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of squash, whatever it might be. But at the last  minute, something happens. So we call our friend  
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or we send an email or we make her apologies to  the boss and say, Look, I'm really really sorry,  
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can we postpone a game of squash? Can we put back  that lunch, can I make the meeting at another time  
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because something urgent has come up. So when  something comes up, it arises quite suddenly,  
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unexpectedly and you have to change your plans,  something can come up at the last minute. So you  
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often use it in an expression like that something  came up at the last minute, and I'm really sorry,  
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I couldn't make the party, I couldn't even  call you because I didn't have my mobile phone.  
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Everything happened so quickly. Now, again, we  have another three-part phrasal verb and this is  
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come up against. So the last one was come up. So  something arises come up against totally different  
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meaning. So you can come up against problems, you  can come up against some protest, you can come up  
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against some opposition, something that's going  to block you, okay, so if you're trying to get  
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elected to your local council, because you feel  you want to participate, and you can contribute  
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to local politics, but you come up against a  brick wall when you're trying to get nominated.  
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The rules say that you have to be nominated by 20  existing council members, and you've only got five  
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or six that even know you are willing to support  you. So you come up against some opposition, okay,  
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or you're trying to get promoted in the office,  and you come up against some stubborn resistance  
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by a boss who's trying to tell you why he doesn't  think it's a good idea because he really doesn't  
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want to lose you because if you get promoted,  you're going to go to another division and he's  
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not so happy about it. So you come up against  some resistance in the shape of your boss who  
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doesn't really want to support your push for a  promotion. So when you come up against something,  
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you get some resistance, there's opposition to  what you want to say or opposition to what you  
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want to do come up against. Number 26. Another  three-part phrasal verb come up for okay. Now,  
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when something comes up for it usually means it's  time to be renewed. So perhaps if you're living  
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in rented accommodation, and your lease was  a three-year lease, and you've been there two  
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years and nine months, then the lease will come  up for renewal in a few months and you'll get a  
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letter or a notice or a call from the agent or the  landlord asking you Do you want to renew the lease  
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for a further period of three years. So your lease  came up for renewal or perhaps your position came  
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up for renewal in the office. Maybe you're only  on a six-month temporary contract. And then at  
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the end of the six months, it has to be renewed  by the boss. So you have to go in and have a bit  
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of a chat. Do they want you to they want to keep  you or they're going to make it permanent. And the  
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boss might say, Well, look, your position here  is coming up for discussion again in a couple  
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of weeks. But I just like to tell you that we're  really happy with you. And we're happy to continue  
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the contract for a further six months. So to  come up for discussion to come up for renewal  
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means something has to happen, something  has to change to come up for. Number 27 Come
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up to. Okay, well, we can use this one when we  talk about people's height. So if you have a  
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son or daughter, and as they are getting a little  bit older, from the age of six or seven, they're  
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always interested in how tall they are, where  do they come up to, when they stand beside you,  
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they come up to your knee, when they're two or  three, they come up to your hip, when they're  
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six or seven, they come up to your elbow when  the nine or 10. And then when they're 17 or 18,  
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they come up to or way above you. So when they  come up to that's how you measure them. Where  
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are they? Are they at your level of your elbow,  or the level of your shoulder they come up to? So  
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is it Oh, wow, look at look at her look at David,  he's really grown in the last 12 months, he now  
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comes up to your shoulder, I swear a few months  ago, he didn't even come up to your elbow. So the  
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kids are growing really, really quickly come up to  number 28 to come up with to come up with means to  
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either invent or discover or suggest. So I'd like  you all to come up with some bright ideas for the  
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party. We don't want to do the same thing. Every  year, every year we go to the hotel, every year,  
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we have some drinks every year, we have some  food. So now is the time to plan in advance.  
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And I'd like you all to come up with some fresh  ideas. So to come up with means to introduce or  
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suggest or put forward some ideas about changing  the decoration, changing the Christmas party,  
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changing the the marketing plan, whatever it  happens to be, when we come up with something,  
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it's something new, something to change from the  old ways to new ways to come up with who came up  
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with that idea. So you could use it in that bit  of exasperation. You're with your friends in the  
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coffee shop six or seven of them, and you get in  late and they're all saying we're all for a game  
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of crazy golf. Well, who came up with that idea?  It's raining outside who came up with that idea  
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who came up with that suggestion? Number 29. Now  we're gonna go to to go 29 come upon, this is a  
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little bit more formal. Okay, the phrasal verbs  generally are informal, and come upon slightly  
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more formal. I came upon this when I was out  shopping. I came upon my friend unexpectedly  
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so to come upon something is a little bit like  come across. Yeah, so I came across it when I  
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was walking around the car boots, so I came upon  them by surprise. So again, it means something  
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unexpected and something surprising and may not  be a good surprise. Yeah. Okay, so the police  
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came upon the robber as he was trying to break  into the house, they noticed something funny,  
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they heard the sound of breaking glass. And when  they went to investigate low and behold there was  
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this guy climbing through the window. So to come  upon something means to discover or find, but you  
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weren't expecting it. It wasn't something that you  had planned to come upon. And then finally yet,  
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finally, number 30. Okay, number 30. Come with  Okay, now did you ever buy a packet of something  
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like I don't smoke but you might buy a packet of  cigarettes and every packet of cigarettes comes  
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with a health warning Okay, so to come with means  to be accompanied by or you see printed in this  
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case on the box, a very strong health warning.  Smoking can kill smoking can cause cancer. This is  
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the health warning that every packet of cigarettes  comes with. Okay? Or if you're buying something in  
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the shop, for example, what again for the kids, it  comes with batteries. So when you look at the box,  
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it says here's the game and here's the bits  and pieces of the board the little tokens you  
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need the dice but this also comes with two  A or two AA batteries batteries included it  
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comes with so you get all of the accessories.  So to come with means to be accompanied by or  
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to be included. Okay to come with. Okay, so as I  said at the beginning 30 Yep, 30 of these phrasal  
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verbs and its phrasal verb with the verb calm and  we've got some of them as two-part phrasal verbs  
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other others three-part phrasal verbs, no real  difference only one extra preposition but be very  
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careful when you have to like come up and come  up with totally different meanings. So be very,  
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very careful when you have a two-part and a  three-part phrasal verb you might think they're  
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the same, but they have a very, very different  meaning. And you know the drill by now we have to  
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practice these. Gotta take a few of them. Try to  write sentences, try to think up your own ideas,  
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as always, come back to me, and I'll give you  some additional help. So this is Harry thanking  
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you for watching for listening. As always  remember to join me for the next lesson.
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