Example sentences of "[noun] to put [adv prt] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned them inside out , returned them to Dot to put on with the insides now on the outside . |
| 2 | They tend to rely on their parents to put up with the drudgery of queues and are only interested in capitalism and the rewards it can bring . |
| 3 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 4 | Those who feel that patience , trust and a capacity to put up with uncertainty are gifts rather than skills — and gifts which not all adults share — will doubt whether these personal dispositions can be amenable to training . |
| 5 | It leads participants to put up with exploitation , for instance , with lack of real choice and an inability , despite exercising different points of view , to alter the real political and economic situation . |
| 6 | Oh , he 'd had a lot of silly nonsense to put up with , but that was only on the surface , he knew that really , and now that the children were off their hands they could be together more and she 'd be less hasty . |
| 7 | He forced his wife to put up with having his mistress living in the house with them . |
| 8 | You would n't expect another adult to put up with an interminable monologue from you . |
| 9 | What is so humbling is the fact that workers see it as their lot in life to put up with bad management for the social structure is such that they do not see themselves as having [ the ] qualities of managers . |
| 10 | We can not expect our competitors on mainland Europe to put up with such discrimination . |
| 11 | I mean , they should n't want more than seven per cent because the cost of living , you know , the inflation 's gone down , but then when a bloke gets forty five thousand quid , you know eh , on a firm where they 've a , they 've made a profit , but he got an increase of forty five thousand pound which was of , no , no about forty per cent rather , forty per cent increase in his salary , I mean it 's bloody , I mean , how can , how can they expect , you know , the ordinary working man to put up with bloody awful increase , if , if they go and give bosses increases like that , I mean it does n't make sense . |
| 12 | Though it is dead the minute it leaves the scalp , your hair has a lot to put up with . |
| 13 | The women in the village say , ‘ Poor Elizabeth , she has a lot to put up with , with that big old house and Angharad , and Hywel working so hard on the farm ’ , but their eyes gleam as they speak and they do not like her . |
| 14 | She 's probably had one helluva lot to put up with . |
| 15 | Since I started walking railways I have been amazed at how many other people do it , so the poor farmers potentially have a lot to put up with . |
| 16 | ‘ But , you must admit , I did have a lot to put up with today . ’ |
| 17 | She 's had a lot to put up with . |
| 18 | You see Grant has got a lot to put up with . |
| 19 | She 's had a lot to put up with . |
| 20 | I 'm praying that God will give me the strength to put up with this chap , spouting his everlasting Socialist claptrap . ’ |
| 21 | It takes a pretty tolerant company to put up with my taste in ties , for example . |
| 22 | She had the knack of handling him if he got worked up about the posing , she knew how to quieten him down , and this ability to put up with his disagreeable side could only mean one thing , he reasoned . |