Free Intermediate Vocabulary Exercise: Phrasal Verbs

For each sentence, choose the best word or phrase to complete the gap from the choices below.

There were six children so I cut the cake into seven pieces so I could have a piece as well.
Two weeks ago, we had so much snow that it completely up the grass in the school garden.
Abdul has lost his pen. Can everybody spend two minutes helping him to for it.
In the race, Andrea was running very fast but Belen was able to catch up her just before the end.
This morning, my pen ran out ink and stopped working. So I borrowed a pen from my friend Carla.
I tried to call my embassy yesterday. I waited on the phone for twenty minutes but they didn't answer and in the end I up.
Emrah left his homework at home so he couldn't give it in to the teacher on Monday.
Last night I had a problem so I tried to phone the school but I could only get through an answer machine. I couldn't speak to a real person.
The taxi only waited for two minutes outside Mazen's house. So when Mazen went out, the taxi had driven .
When I left my bag on the bus, I rang the bus company but they didn't find my bag so I had to buy a new one.
Yesterday the students drank a lot of coffee and they used all the coffee in the coffee machine. So when I wanted a coffee, the macine was empty.
In the evening, the last teacher to leave the school locks all the doors and windows before he or she goes home.

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