Phrasal-Prepositional Verbs — The IN Family: Receiving, Admitting, Substituting (C2)

The decision to host the launch event at the disputed offshore facility has already ___ severe criticism from environmental groups and from at least three of the company's own institutional shareholders.

Only a small handful of senior partners had been ___ the firm's rather ambitious plans to acquire its largest London-based competitor before the year was out.

Anyone who imagines that the new procurement system will simply replicate the workflow of the old one is, I am afraid, ___ a rather unpleasant surprise on day one of go-live.

It later emerged from the internal review that several mid-level managers had been ___ the scheme from the very start, despite their later denials of any prior knowledge.

Within weeks of returning from her sabbatical, the deputy director had quietly ___ a transfer to one of the regional offices, citing family reasons that none of her colleagues had previously been aware of.

For the entire six-week period of his predecessor's extended sick leave, the deputy head ___ as acting chief executive and chaired the board himself for the first time.

When the keynote speaker's flight from Frankfurt was abruptly cancelled, an older colleague of mine ___ at fifteen minutes' notice and delivered a polished forty-minute talk on the same topic from memory.

Several long-established high-street retailers, having watched the online-only operators grow steadily for the best part of a decade, finally decided last year that they too needed to ___ the action.

There has been a noticeable tendency among smaller publishers in the last eighteen months to ___ the renewed public appetite for cosy crime fiction by reissuing forgotten mid-century titles with redesigned covers.

Two former chancellors and several leading economists have already ___ what is rapidly becoming the most divisive public-spending debate of the parliamentary term.

On her way back from the conference in Geneva, the rapporteur made a point of ___ the rather embattled regional office without giving the team there any prior warning.

In the report the Information Commissioner concluded that, on at least four documented occasions, junior officers had ___ confidential telephone conversations between solicitors and their clients in custody.

The volunteer coordinator's handling of the difficult question-and-answer session has rightly ___ a great deal of praise from both the local press and the council's own communications team.

Halfway through the speech the entire top table erupted into laughter, and the rest of us could only sit there awkwardly, having clearly not been ___ whatever the after-dinner reference was supposed to be.

A neighbour has very kindly agreed to ___ my elderly aunt once or twice a day during the fortnight that I will be away in Vietnam for my brother's wedding.