Fill in the Blanks Phrasal Verbs for Formal MeetingsOnline version Complete the phrasal verbs used in formal meetings by Yvonne Choi 1 Imagine your clients have been asked to attend a meeting either in person or via a conference call ? The date and time is set and they put ( schedule it ) in your diary . Occasionally , they need to bring ( make it earlier ) the time of the meeting to suit everyone . They then get a call from a colleague to say that something has come ( happened ) and they decide the meeting has to be put ( postponed ) to another day . No problem . In a way they ? re quite relieved because they have a mountain of things to do and they were worried that they might have had to call ( cancel ) the meeting anyway . During the meeting , they have a number of issues they need to raise and deal ( manage ) . They may have outlined the items in an agenda that they ? ve circulated to everyone beforehand . With some issues , they may have to weigh ( think carefully about ) their advantages and disadvantages before taking action . This could take a while and they might encourage their colleagues to join ( participate ) the discussion . Sometimes they need to look ( to investigate / research ) a matter before taking a final decision . If that ? s the case , they might note ( write ) all the points raised during the meeting to help themselves . Some people don ? t like to be interrupted when they ? re talking , while others don ? t mind if someone steps ( interrupt ) with their point of view . I have had times when I ? ve had to cut ( interrupt ) especially when I thought that a colleague was going ( continuing without stopping ) about something truly unimportant . There is always someone in a meeting who just keeps rabbiting ( talking too much about something that ? s uninteresting ) about some subject that no one else is interested in . So , I often tell my colleagues that we need to press ( continue ) with the other items in the agenda . After all , there ? s nothing worse than having a meeting that drags ( continues for far too long ) , is there ? !