Dependent Prepositions - Verbs 1
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First complete the table with the prepositions and then complete the sentences with a verb and preposition from the table. Put the verb into the correct form.
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confide
embroil
establish yourself
indulge
persist
prevail
appropriate
cater
earmark
hanker
nominate
pose
acquit
conceive
convince
despair
dispose
weary
associate
comply
entrust
ingratiate yourself
plead
tamper
1)
Most people immediately
addictions
drugs, alcohol and cigarettes.
2)
Why do some companies
taking your money before they deliver the goods?
3)
Wicklow County Council has
€200,000 in its capital programme
refurbishment work.
4)
Alison tried to
herself
the teacher by giving him a lot of presents.
5)
I seriously
the people who are running the current European economic policy.
6)
BBG have
themselves
this market through a unique management structure.
7)
The games facilities will
sports such as table tennis, volleyball, pool and badminton.
8)
The woman was
perjury, which could have landed the mother of two 10 years in prison.
9)
Failure to
any of those provisions will render building workers liable to imprisonment.
10)
For dessert, you might as well go all the way and
the chocolate ice cream.
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Answers
1)
associate with
to connect sb. or sth. with something else in one's mind
2)
persist in
to keep on doing sth. in spite of opposition or difficulty
3)
earmark for
*
designate (funds or resources) for a particular purpose
4)
ingratiate yourself with
to do things in order to make somebody like you
5)
despair of
to lose or be without hope
6)
establish yourself in
*
to achieve permanent acceptance or recognition for
7)
cater for
to provide with what is needed or required
8)
acquit of
*
to free sb. from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty
9)
comply with
to obey a rule, an order,
etc.
10)
indulge in
to allow yourself to have or do something that you like
*
3) earmarked ... for 6) established ... in 8) acquitted of