Example sentences of "have put up [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was more , they 've had to put up with a relief milker while their herdsman was laid up with flu . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , I am remembering ; and please remember , too , Great-grandmother , that I am not a miss any more ; I am a married woman who has run your house for years and has had to put up with a man of your choosing . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ She 's a very sensitive child , though she 's had to put up with a lot already , her mother being ill so much . ’ |
| 4 | After 1714 the balance shifted to a point where the King and the Commons had something like mutual vetoes : the King chose the ministers and could normally be sure of not having to put up with a minister he disliked , but the Commons could reject a minister they disliked by refusing to vote for the taxes he proposed , thus pushing the King into dismissing him . |
| 5 | It is too late for British Telecom to return to its old ways if only because the public now knows that it does not have to put up with a telephone system built for the 1950s . |
| 6 | As well as the noise the couple would have to put up with a landfill site within a few yards of their garden . |
| 7 | ‘ I keep imagining this morning that I have — please believe me , Milena , because when we 're married you will have to put up with a lot of this , but I keep imagining that I have lots of little crisp sepia legs . ’ |
| 8 | So now you do n't have to put up with a two-star performance from ordinary mercury-free batteries , when there is now a new four star alternative . |
| 9 | Immigrant doctors in Britain may silently have put up with a lot of it in the past , but those born and educated in Britain have every right to expect that they will be judged strictly on merit . |
| 10 | ‘ It makes me vomit ’ , she went on , ‘ to think that I am going to have to put up with a load of garbage like you in my school for the next six years . |
| 11 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 12 | It is said he had to put up with a sofa in the corridor until his identity was revealed . |
| 13 | He conducted himself impeccably , he was open and honest and had to put up with a lot from the press and media . |
| 14 | We had to put up with a succession of dead grannies , occult trivia , psychic charades , aura readings and attempts to probe the future . |
| 15 | The route we had taken through the cordillera from Cajamarca had brought us virtually into the outskirts of Tmjillo and we had put up at a hotel in the centre of the city , all three of us more or less out on our feet . |
| 16 | Instead , he had put up in a hotel some miles out of town , high up on the Downs , which owed more to Laura Ashley than to Nancy Astor . |
| 17 | Dogs , on the other hand , have to put up with a range of 1 dioptre all their lives . |
| 18 | At football matches or at confrontations at seaside resorts the police have to put up with a lot of abuse . |