Here is an amazing list of 33 phrasal verbs using the verb "come" with a slew of prepositions.
Come on, you have to admit this is quite a list!
Come about - Happen, occur
- Shift direction (nautical)
Come across- Shift direction (nautical)
- Find by accident
- Agree to have sex with someone
- The way other people see you
Come along- Agree to have sex with someone
- The way other people see you
- Accompany
- Move faster or keep up
Come apart- Move faster or keep up
- Break into pieces
Come around - Recover consciousness
Come around to - Agree with or accept something you had previously disapproved of or disliked.
Come before - Appear in court charged with a crime or offence
Come by - Visit
- Acquire
Come down- Acquire
- Rain
- Travel
Come down on- Travel
- Criticise heavily
Come down with - Fall ill
Come forth - Appear
Come forth with - Provide information
Come from - Country or town where you were born
Come in - Arrive for flights
- Place or ranking in a competition, etc.
- Receive news
Come in for- Place or ranking in a competition, etc.
- Receive news
- Receive (criticism or praise)
Come into - Be important or relevant
- Inherit
Come off- Inherit
- When something breaks off
- Be successful
"Come off it!"- Be successful
- I don't believe what you're saying (imperative)
Come on - Encouragement
- Start an illness
- Start functioning (machines, etc)
Come out- Start an illness
- Start functioning (machines, etc)
- A secret is revealed
- Be published or otherwise available to the public
- Disappear when washed
- Let people know that you are lesbian or gay
- When the sun appears
Come out in- Be published or otherwise available to the public
- Disappear when washed
- Let people know that you are lesbian or gay
- When the sun appears
- Have a rash or similar skin problem
Come out of - Recover consciousness
Come out with - Make something available
- Say something publicly and unexpectedly
Come over- Say something publicly and unexpectedly
- Feel strange
- Affect mentally in such a way as to change behaviour (possibly related to 'overcome')
Come round- Affect mentally in such a way as to change behaviour (possibly related to 'overcome')
- Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic
- Change your opinion
Come through- Change your opinion
- Arrive (messages and information)
- Communicate an emotion
- Produce a result
Come through with- Communicate an emotion
- Produce a result
- Provide something needed
Come to - Become conscious, wake up from anaesthetic
- Result in
Come up- Result in
- Appear
- Rise (the sun)
Come up against- Rise (the sun)
- Encounter problems or difficulties
Come up with - Think of a solution, excuse, etc.
Come upon- Find by chance
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