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  • Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 90. The verb phrase today is

  • come away with. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If someone comes away with

  • something he or she succeeds in winning something or in getting something that

  • is desired. Okay. Let's look at example number one here. After the Academy Awards

  • was over, that movie came away with four Oscars. Yeah we always hear this around

  • Academy Award time. Maybe they were nominated for a lot more.

  • Maybe they were nominated for seven or eight or nine, but they won four. So they

  • got four Oscars or they got four Academy Awards because of course Oscar is just

  • another nickname for Academy Award . Okay. Le's look at number two. After the

  • midterm elections , the Democratic Party came away with enough seats to win back

  • the house. The Republicans came away with enough seats to hold on to the Senate.

  • Okay. You could use it both ways. Number three. The last one here. After selling

  • that stock, he came away with a profit of over 30% . So whatever price he, he put

  • into it he got more than 30% back. So that would be a really good profit on a

  • stock. Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time.

  • Bye-bye.

Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Verb Phrase 90. The verb phrase today is

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