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Example: Wegot together in the pub for a drink. Get up = get out ofbed
SpokenEnglish II
Example: Iget up at seven o'clock on weekdays, but lie in till noon at the weekend.
Get up = organise
Example: Theygot up a list of two hundred people who were op-
posed to the local council's plans.
Get up to = do something wrong or naughty
Example: The children are always getting up to some trouble or
other.
Give away = entrust your daughter to her husband during the marnage ceremony
Example: Hegave his daughter away and told the groom to lOOK after her.
Give away = tell a secret
Example: She didn'tgive anything away about the party so it came
as a complete surprise to me.
Give back = return something you-'ve borrowed
Example: Igave her back the twenty pounds she'd lent to me.
Give in = stop doing something because it-'s too hard or requires too much energy
Example: I couldn't fInish the crossword puzzle and had togive in and look at the answers.
Give in =submit homework., etc.
Example: The projects have to begiven in three weeks before we
break up for the end of term. (British)
Give off = emit pollution or something else unpleasant