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