English Phrasal Verbs

Act on - To take action because of something like information received
Act out - Perform something with actions and gestures.- Express an emotion in your behaviour
Act up - Behave badly or strangely
Add on - Include in a calculation
Add up - To make a mathematical total- Be a satisfactory explanantion for something
Add up to - Have a certain result
Aim at - To target
Allow for - Include something in a plan or calculation
Angle for - Try to get something indirectly, by hinting or suggesting
Answer back - To reply rudely to someone in authority
Answer for - Be held responsible for a problem- Speak on behalf of someone or from knowing them
Argue out - Argue about a problem to find a solution
Ask after - Enquire about someone's health, how life is going
Ask around - Ask a number of people for information of help- Invite someone
Ask for - To provoke a negative reaction
Ask in - To invite somebody into your house
Ask out - To invite someone for a date
Ask over - Invite
Ask round - Invite someone
Auction off - Sell something in an auction
Be after - Try to find or get
Be along - Arrive
Be away- Be elsewhere; on holiday, etc.
Be cut out for - Be suitable, have the necessary qualities
Be cut up - Be upset
Be down - Be depressed- Be reduced or less
Be down with - Be ill
Be fed up - Be bored, upset or sick of something
Be in - Be at home or at work- Be submitted, arrive
Be in on - Be involved in
Be not on - Be unacceptable
Be off - Be bad (of food)- Depart, leave
Be on - Be functioning (of machines)- Take place- Take medication or drugs, especially when they affect the person badly
Be on about - Mean, try to say
Be onto - Pursue, be aware of someone's true nature
Be out - Be absent from a place
Be out of - Have no more left
Be out to - Attempt
Be snowed under - Have too much work
Be taken aback - Be shocked or surprised
Be taken with - Like something
Be up - Be out of bed- Have increased or risen- When the time for something finishes or expires
Be up to - Be good enough- Doing something naughty or wrong