311. The Adventure of the Western Star (part 2) B2 story

[upbeat music] The first phrasal verb to tell you about.

These are in order as you'll hear them in the story.

The first one is to turn up.

Right.

The meaning of turn up here is to arrive or appear.

Okay, so that means a person can arrive or a thing can appear, and we use turn up in both these situations.

Here is my example sentence: We finished the meeting early because the client didn't turn up on time.

Okay, so obviously the meaning is arrive.

What if we're talking about a thing? Well, often if you're looking for something, we might say, "Oh, well, I was looking for those keys everywhere.

I couldn't find them.

I, I don't remember where I left them.

Well, anyway, actually, in the end, they turned up under the cushions on the sofa." How many things turn up under those cushions on the sofa? What is the meaning exactly then? Does it mean to arrive or to appear? Is it a synonym of those words? Well, yes and no.

It can have the meaning as well, or it does h- often have the meaning that somebody arrives unexpectedly when we're not expecting them.

So it could be that great Uncle Bob who suddenly turns up at your house one evening.

You haven't seen him for 20 years, just come back from Australia, so that was unexpected.

Or again, something that you find that you didn't expect to find, it turned up.

Okay, so next one.

I've got six of these, so this is number two now.

This is a, an easier one, get away, meaning to escape, often perhaps for criminals or people who've been captured.

Here is my example sentence: The thieves managed to get away before the security guards could lock the building.

Now, escape and get away often have a different meaning, and we use those words to talk about, well, that escape from our routine, what we do every day, work, working in the h- in the home, working in the office, and we need a break.

So we got away finally.

Oh, it was wonderful.A lovely escape to the coast.

Just for a couple of nights, but we enjoyed it so much.

A break from the routine, you know.