Use each of the phrasal verbs in exercise to complete the text. You may
needto use the past tense, the past participle or the present continuous form.
After three years of rapid growth, sales began to 1 ... Then, with the recession,
they 2 ... dramatically. We had to 3 ... the factory in Ireland, and 4 ... sixty people.
That left a lot of machine workers 5 ... a job in one small town. They 6 ... the
newspapers every day, but there weren‟t many job vacancies. The unemployed had
to 7 ... any kind of casual work they could find. We also had to 8 ... staff in the
London office, and reconsider the whole British operation that we‟d 9 ... only five
years before. Some of the American managers wanted to 10 ... the British market
entirely, and to 11 ... our whole European business. Instead we have 12 ... a
restructuring, and 13 ... all our plans for expansion, and for 14 ... new products.
We‟re trying to 15 ... as bestwe can. We might even have to 16 ... our prices a little,
hoping we can 17 ... our customers‟ brand loyalty. At least there are some signs that
the recession has 18 ... .