Phrasal-Prepositional Verbs — The COME Family (C1)

On her first overseas posting, the young diplomat soon ___ a level of bureaucratic resistance that none of her training courses had ever prepared her for.

With only one weekend left before the funding deadline, the research team needed to ___ a workable proposal that would also satisfy the new ethics committee.

The minister's remarks at the trade-union conference have ___ sustained criticism from members of her own party, several of whom have publicly demanded a retraction.

In the end, all of these complaints about the new timetable really ___ a single fundamental question: do the buses arrive when the printed schedule says they will?

Three of the eight cabin crew on yesterday's long-haul flight have already ___ what the company doctor is now confident is a particularly aggressive strain of flu.

After leaving the conference centre slightly earlier than planned, I ___ an old university tutor of mine in the queue at the coffee shop on the corner.

Any reform of the planning rules in this country is almost certain to ___ stiff opposition from the heritage lobby, regardless of which party is in office.

The regulator has warned that it will ___ any platform that fails to remove illegal content within twenty-four hours of receiving a formal complaint.

My grandfather was deeply sceptical about working from home when the policy was first introduced, but over the months he gradually ___ the idea and now refuses to commute on Fridays.

The questioner on the panel was visibly enjoying watching the candidate struggle to ___ a convincing answer about her record on the disputed contract.

Strip away the rhetoric on both sides and the dispute really ___ a simple disagreement about whose name appears first on the project credits.

The advertising campaign launched last Monday has already ___ a great deal of criticism on social media for what users describe as its tone-deaf use of personal-loss imagery.

Every reform-minded chancellor has eventually ___ the same iron resistance from the Treasury's permanent staff, regardless of party or political mandate.

After more than two decades in the same industry, very few people are still ___ genuinely fresh ideas the way Helena does on a more or less monthly basis.

When all the polling has been published and all the manifestos digested, the choice really ___ trust: which of the two leaders the public is willing to trust over the next five years.