Phrasal_verbs Practice Stories

Jafar is deep in thought these days. Two months ago while he was partaking of a feast with a client they watched a big soccer game. The client was quiet and Jafar was rooting for one of the teams.

Herb Tasker is looking for oil. His company Great North Energy Inc joined up with another oil drilling company to look for oil in the north. He was looking for a company that matched up with his

Datya is celebrating with his friends today. He finished a job that was very very hard and many friends have shown up to cheer for his success. The job was so difficult that at times he wanted to

George is pretty happy tonight. He was secretly betting on his friend Al to come down with a cold and not come to the weekly poker game. When Al comes to the games he almost always picks on George.

Tucker told his boss there were going to be problems on the construction site. Several young men were hanging around the gate of the site for several hours. He called his boss but the boss didn't

The future does not look good for Aliyah. After the war in his country his parents were both dead and his town handed him over to an orphanage. They gave away all his things and this made Aliyah

The boys in the fourth grade are part of an experiment. They are taking up a new language. Their teachers think they are young enough to catch on to a new language quickly without a lot of hard

Excitement is what drives Phil. He has been capturing and smuggling exotic animals for nearly ten years and he does it as much for the excitement as for the money. Once he worked with a partner who

Mashuma has been fighting discrimination for years. She believes in the inner goodness of people and thinks they only discriminate because of ignorance. Once she worked in a hospital and a white

Alice is a dangerous woman. In high school people used to make fun of her because she had unusual spiritual ideas. They had never heard of such nonsense. After putting up with their jokes for years

Janine Harbridge loves going on expensive vacations to warm tropical countries. But the days of the strong economy are over now and she knows that she can't keep on living it up without thinking

Having lunch with friends is almost a ritual with Maurice. A few weeks ago while working on the docks one of the cranes dropped a load near Maurice. It burst and the contents hit Maurice knocking

Jeff is holding his hands open in a gesture of appeal. A few years back he was flicking through a magazine and saw an advertisement for a university program. He applied to the program and was soon

Lakshmi and Pratiba are dying to escape the slums they live in now. They want to improve on their situation in any way they can. Once they even stole some money from a shopkeeper. They didn't get

Without the money she needed Anna had no way to get out of her bleak life. They turned her down at the job interview saying she didn't have enough training. And Anna knew she could do a better job

Mr Ndola is working hard today. Yesterday he packed up early to go into town and queue up at the hardware store. They had a new shipment of hoes in and he badly wanted to get one. His last hoe was