Add up

James added up the number of affirmative responses.

calculate

Buy out

The large company bought out the smaller.

purchase (someone’s assets)

Buy up

The business’s assets were bought up in the auction.

purchase (all of something)

Call off

The order was to call off the strike immediately.

cancel

Carry on

The meeting will carry on in your absence.

continue

Carry out

Sam carried out the research because Jimmy couldn’t find the time.

execute

Cut out

Because the subsection was not directly relevant to the rest of the paper, Randal had to cut it out.

excise

Find out

The purpose of the literature review is find out what has been said on the topic.

discover

Get (it) over with (must be split)

Isa and the other participants were happy to get the laborious questionnaire over with.

complete

Get across

Lars’s paper has too many grammatical mistakes, meaning he couldn’t get his message across.

communicate

Give up

The outnumbered forces would not give up.

surrender

Hold up

When deadlines approach, a student cannot let anything hold up the completion of an assignment.

delay

Leave out

The witness left out a number of important details.

omit

Make up

We asked participants to make up a scenario in which they would be content.

fabricate

Make out

In the darkness he could not make out the size of the camp.

see

Pass up

We could not pass up this opportunity to collaborate.

forgo

Pass on

The common flu can be passed on through saliva.

transmit

Pass out

Our research assistants passed out four-hundred surveys to a random sample of shoppers.

distribute

Pick up

This study picks Dekker’s research up where he left it.

resume

Point out

Hendriks (2010) points out that such a study might be useful.

explain

Set up

The equipment’s sensitivity meant we had to set it up with utmost care.

arrange

Turn down

Regretfully, the board must turn down a number of applicants every year.

reject

Use up

The campers were thirsty after they used up the last of the water.

exhaust