give up - stop doing some activity e.g. smoking, or a game because you are losing.
end up - to finish in a place probably you didn't expect to find yourself in.
put off - to do some activity at a later time.
set off - to start a journey.
run out - to find you have no more of something e.g. petrol in your car, milk in the fridge.
look forward - wait excitedly for an event to happen.
When Jasmin looked down carefully at the soft ground, her heart sank. She could see quite clearly that the tiger had recently come this way. She knew it must be close by. She looked forwards towards the trees by the lake. It was foggy in the early morning light, but she clearly noticed that something was moving in the long grass. She turned and ran - not the way she had come but a little to the left. Her heart was beating fast, she was frightened, and the light was bad, which meant she did not see the cliff. Of course, she fell, but her fall was broken by a branch, which was growing out of the rocks. She had not reached the bottom, which was a long way down. She was saved.
Jasmin relaxed. However, what happened next her Jasmin scream. The branch began to break. Slowly, at first. Jasmin could not get back to the cliff - there was no time. It was over.
'I don't want to continue in this game,' she cried. 'I've lost. Please, game over!' Jasmin waited for the rescue that had to come because this world was not real, but the tears on her cheeks were wet, and the cold morning fog and her fear made her body shake.
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The best answer is 'she gave up' - she didn't want to carry on playing the game. But also you could say she set off in the opposite direction from where the tiger was; she ended up on a branch on the side of a cliff; she had run out of places to run to; she looked forward to being rescued from the computer game.
'I can see just fine, thank you very much!' Mr Sydney Peebles said. 'I imagine you don't know, but I can see perfectly. I don't need glasses.'
'But when we went to watch that film last night at the Odeon, you complained you could hardly see anything,' said his work colleague and friend, Bernard.
'That was because of the quality of the film. I should have asked for a refund!' replied Sydney, obviously hurt.
'Don't get upset, Sydney! I'm just a friend offering advice, that's all. You can do what you like! But we're all getting older. Nothing to be ashamed of. Just be careful! You'll find yourself under a bus one of these days!' and Bernard stood up, threw his plastic coffee cup into the bin and left the work canteen.
It was true, thought Sydney, as he walked back to his office. He found it harder to read the small text in the reports on his desk, but he only had to move his head back until he could read the text more clearly. 'Getting older. Me? I'm the youngest employee in the office!'
It was quite likely that Martin Saunders was driving his bus faster than he usually did. It was five-thirty and he was about to finish his working day. A lot of traffic jams. Martin was tired. He wanted to get home, have a cup of tea and play with his kids.
What he did not expect was somebody on a pedestrian crossing when the traffic lights were green for vehicles. Unfortunately, that was what he saw, but then it was all too late. The middle-aged man suddenly disappeared. Under the bus, obviously. Martin hit the brakes a few second too late. The tyres screamed. Some passengers screamed.
Martin jumped out of the bus in a moment. He fell to his knees and looked under the bus. Nobody there!
'Excuse me!' said a voice behind him. Martin stood up and turned around. 'You should look where you're going!' said the same middle-aged man. 'I had just got down on my hands and knees because I dropped my mobile phone down that hole in the road. You went right over me. You should look where you're going! You nearly killed me! Buy yourself some glasses!' And Sydney walked off, looking very annoyed.
Martin, the bus driver, said nothing, but watched amazed as the middle-aged man walked away and straight into a lamp post.
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I think the best answer was put off, as Sydney was putting off buying glasses. Another answer might be to end up – his friend told him he would find himself under a bus one day, and he did end up underneath a bus. You could also say Martin, the bus driver was looking forward to getting home to play with his kids.
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