Page 186 - Spoken English Flourish Your Language

11 184 Spoken English II Example: He's taken to wearing a baseball cap since his hair started
thinning more noticeably.
Take up = fill or occupy time or space
Example: An awful lot of my time at work is taken up with point-
less bureaucracy nowadays.
Take up = make clothes shorter
Example: The trousers were too long so I took them up to make
them fit.
Take up = start a new hobb~ pastime~ etc.
Example: He took up squash as he felt he had to lose some weight.
Talk into =persuade someone to do something
Example: She didn't want to let me go, but I finally managed to talk her into it.
Talk out of = persuade someone not to do something
Example: He was going to drive home after drinking half a bottle
of wine, but his friends talked him out ofit. Tear apart = disturb or upsetgreatly
Example: People were torn apart when news of the train crash came through.
Tear down =demolish
Example: The estate was torn down so that they could develop the
land into luxury flats.
Tear off = remove part ofa form or letter using your hands and not scissors
Example: She tore the slip off the bottom of the form and sent it with her cheque.
Tear up =rip into pieces