add up

1.Many small victories add up to a big one.

2.We just added all the numbers up and divided one by the other.

calm down

1.If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.

2.I'll try a herbal remedy to calm him down.

be concerned about

1.In this age of globalisation, China is also a partner - which is why we should all be concerned about the challenges ahead.

2.Those who lack imagination can't conceive of the world being better or different from what it is, so why would they be concerned about changing it?

go through

1.He was going through a very difficult time.

2.The bill might have gone through if the economy was growing.

set down

1.I like to make suggestions rather than setting down laws and forcing people to follow them.

2.Old Walter is setting down his memories of village life.

a series of

1.Boom! Boom! Boom! A series of explosions shook the valley.

2.The challenger delivered a series of punches to the champion.

on purpose

1.Some divers interfere with sharks on purpose.

2.This is on purpose, because one of the things I hope you have learned to do this semester, is look up things you don't know, and figure out what they do. What they mean.

in order to

1.It called for an increase in global efforts in order to reach the goals for ending the worst forms of child labor.

2.And so what we do, in order to designate the identity of an atom, is the following.

at dusk

1.At dusk, a huge drum begins to beat.

2.One evening at dusk, as I took a taxi back to my hotel, the streets were deserted.

face to face

1.Surprisingly the study, by Cambridge University, found children as well as adults preferred to communicate face to face.

2.Nearly 40% of executives fear that they would lose customers to competitors without face-to-face meetings.

no longer/not ... any longer

1.We no longer would be subjected to this perennial sideshow and obsequious tip-toeing around political sensibilities.

2.On monetary policy, Roosevelt and the Congress decided that the dollar should no longer be tied to the price of gold.

get/be tired of

1.If you get tired of them, tell the holodeck to blink them out of existence.

2.Eventually, I get tired of being stonewalled and ask can I talk to some girls.

pack (sth) up

1.Otherwise, in their view, economics as a science might as well pack up and go home.

2.If our house is sold, I wish that I could pack up its sights, sounds, smells and store of memories as easily as my mother’s old Waterford, now mine.

get along with

1.Not just the people you like, or the people you get along with, but everyone.

2.The Northern League didn't get along with the coalition government's other key ally, the southern-focused National Alliance party.

fall in love

1.When you start discovering small details that people obsess over, people fall in love even more.

2.However, she did not reach this goal due to either patriarchic oppression or the want of one of her daughters to fall in love.

join  in

1.I hope everyone will join in the fun.

2.If you cannot attend, you can still join in the conversation.