Example sentences of "[noun] had [to-vb] up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the car could be moved , rescue workers had to shore up the building , which was in danger of collapse . |
| 2 | In due course , however , the Collector had to give up the idea of shovelling under these conditions . |
| 3 | Clarissa had to summon up a lot of courage , but she rang Charity 's door bell . |
| 4 | They 'd had a choreographer in when the show had first been set up , but no-one had been near it since ; replacement dancers had to pick up the routines from the others , and some of the results could be kind of interesting . |
| 5 | CCTV had to weigh up the demands for the series to be repeated with the views expressed by some Party members that ‘ Heshang ’ was subversive and dangerous . |
| 6 | And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses . |
| 7 | So the first man in the smithy in the morning had to pick up a hammer and strike the anvil three times — just to let the old man know we were on the job . |
| 8 | When the appointment of new director Wilfrid Lockwood in 1983 meant that James had to yield up the house normally granted to the director , he threatened to sue the library . |
| 9 | Firemen had to lift up the bus before ambulance officers could try to rescue her , but she died at the scene . |
| 10 | Nathan boomed and brayed so enthusiastically that his mother had to mop up a dribble of saliva that trickled out of the corner of his mouth . |