to come across sth /s.o.

to get on
(well) with s.o.

an expression in a text someone in your

family
a friend in the street a friend
an interesting article in a magazine a colleague

to run out of sth to put (sth) off sth/ to put

off doing sth

petrol the homework

milk going to the gym
time / patience /control the housework

to get rid of sth to put up with

sth/s.o.

old clothes a grumpy member of your

family
old toys a difficult customer
nuclear weapons people pushing and shoving on
the bus

to set out …. to keep up

with …..

to look for a place things in the

news
on a journey other students
in the class
to pull the wool over someone’s eyes the homework

to turn out … to run up against st

h

to be more difficult/expensive than you expected a problem

badly/well a difficult situation
to be true stiff /strong opposition

to be fed up with sth/s.o. to hang back from

doing sth

a hectic life /traffic jams doing the exam

Madrid offering your help
someone pestering you starting a project
to get out of sth /doing sth to cheer (s.o.)
up s.o.

visiting relatives a colleague who is down in the

dumps
a boring meeting a classmate who got a bad result
doing a difficult job at work a sibling who’s going
through a rough
patch