Unit Fourteen Thanks for Letting Us Stay

Dear Stewart,
Just a short note to thank you and Stella for putting us up the other night on our way here; and for seeing us off so early in the morning.
We arrived at the cottage late on Monday. It's right at the north tip of Barra and certainly lives up to the description we were given.

We've spent two days looking round the island; it's so beautiful. The cottage is cut off from civilisation (the nearest town is five miles away) and we're really glad we got hold of it. You'd love it here.

See you in three weeks,

Alec and Marjory

Notes

PUT UP ABC Stewart and Stella put Alec and Marjory up overnight.

LIVE UP TO AD A thing or a person can live up to some kind of expectation.

CUT OFF FROM BC A person cuts himself off from his friends, if he stops seeing them.

GET HOLD OF AD Alec and Marjory got hold of the cottage by managing to book it. You can get hold of someone by telephone.

Exercises using verbs from the passage

A Complete these sentences:

1 His exam results fully our expectations.

2 I will go to the station to him

3 The lighthouse-keeper was family and friends for two months.

4 The team manager was able to some new players before the season started.

5 Of course we can you on the night before the party.

6 A narrow channel the island the mainland.

7 The team did not its high reputation.

8 We had time to the theatre before the play began.

B Answer these questions :

1 Why do people go to an airport hen they are not taking a plane?

2 How often do you put someone up?

3 Why do we seldom hear news about Albania?

4 What would you do in an antique shop?

5 How would you get hold of someone's address?

6 How often do racehorses live up to their owners' hopes?

7 If a friend came to stay would you get up to see him off?

8 What can you get hold of in a market?

C Use the following pairs of verbs in sentences of your own:

1 put up, see off.

2 look round, get hold of.

3 live up to, cut off from.

4 see off, look round.

A Vb + prep. + NP. B Vb + NP + prep. C Vb + pron. + prep. D Vb + prep. + pron. E Intrans.
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