ADJ
- private, service
- The hotel has a private lift linking it to the beach
- baggage, goods, passenger, wheelchair
- electric, hydraulic
- basket, chair, gondola
- ski
VERB + LIFT
- go down in, go up in/on, take
- We took the lift down to the ground floor
- operate
LIFT + VERB
- serve sth
- The lift serves the top four floors of the building
- arrive
LIFT + NOUN
- button
- doors
- shaft
- attendant
- pass
- You'll need your lift pass for the ski lifts
VERB + LIFT
- ask for, cadge, hitch, thumb
- We stood by the roadside and thumbed a lift
- give sb, offer sb
- accept
- Don't accept lifts from strangers
PHRASES
- a lift back/home
- He offered us a lift home
ADJ
- great, huge, real
- Winning the semi-final gave the team a huge lift
ADV
- almost, half
- Her hugged her, almost lifting her off the ground
- fractionally, a little, slightly
- slowly
- sharply
- Her head lifted sharply
- carefully, gently, gingerly
- Carefully lift the cake off the tray and cool on a wire rack
- bodily
- She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors
- back, down, out, up
- She lifted back the sheet
VERB + LIFT
- can/could barely/hardly
- The box was so heavy I could barely lift it
- try to
- manage to
- be too heavy to
PREP
- above
- He stood, legs apart, arms lifted above his head
- down
- She leaned on him and he half lifted her down the stairs
- from
- He felt as if an enormous weight had been lifted from his shoulders
- into
- The heavy beams were lifted into place
- off
- She lifted the book up off the table
- out of
- He lifted the baby out of its cot
- over
- She lifted the child over the fence
- to
- Juliet nodded, lifting her face to David's
ADV
- completely
- partially
- The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted
VERB + LIFT
- agree to, decide to, vote to
- The government decided to lift the ban on arms exports
- refuse to