Phrasal-Prepositional Verbs — Informal vs Formal Register (C1)

In her postcard from Lisbon, Maria said she was really ___ seeing all of us again at the family reunion next month.

The Chief Executive's annual statement notes that the board does not ___ any significant change in operating margin during the second half of the financial year.

By the time the rear of the convoy entered the village, the lead vehicles had already ___ the support team waiting at the bridge.

After ten minutes of polite small talk, the chair finally asked everyone to take their seats so the panel could ___ the formal business of the morning.

The marketing team had less than forty-eight hours to ___ a credible response to the rival product launch that had stolen all the headlines.

The neighbours had finally decided that they would no longer ___ the late-night drumming that came from the flat above theirs every weekend.

In an unusually candid press briefing, the finance minister admitted that the Treasury's own economists had failed to ___ the speed at which inflation would fall.

Despite weeks of public protest and a petition signed by over thirty thousand residents, the council refused to ___ the demand for a referendum on the proposed bypass.

Marcus had always ___ his older cousin Jamie, who had won a regional swimming championship at the age of fourteen and gone on to coach at the national academy.

It was the third time that month the youngest cabinet member had been caught misleading a select committee, and few political reporters now believed she would ___ it for much longer.

Now that the worst of the renovation work is finally finished, the whole family is really ___ moving back into the cottage in time for the new school term.

The young lawyer made her reputation in the early nineties by being one of the few junior associates willing to ___ the senior partners on questions of professional ethics.

In its first six months of trading, the start-up had already ___ a level of regulatory scrutiny that none of the more experienced founders in their network had warned them about.

The pace of change in machine-learning research is now so rapid that even specialist journalists struggle to ___ the major releases announced almost weekly.

In her acceptance speech, the incoming director-general told the board that she did not ___ an easy first year, given the financial pressures currently facing the broadcaster.