Example sentences of "have [to-vb] up a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | God , it 's simple to understand , a child could do it , but old Mike has to put up a resistance to everything . |
| 2 | He would have to dredge up an interest in his least favourite pupils and submit himself to a barrage of child-obsessed monologues from people he barely remembered from the year before . |
| 3 | A party , can present a list without having to put up a candidate in every or indeed in any constituency . |
| 4 | It may be that the England management themselves will have to draw up a code of conduct in order to keep everyone happy . |
| 5 | He believed that he would have to give up a career to which he was deeply committed and which had promised to be highly successful . |
| 6 | ‘ My job means having to give up a lot of things that everyone else takes for granted in their life , and you 've always known that , Annabel , ’ Scott again reminded her . |
| 7 | Its place at the centre of government thinking was re-emphasised in April 1939 when the RCM was told that , henceforth , each guarantor would have to put up a deposit of £50 to support the cost of a child 's re-emigration . |
| 8 | This morning I had to connect up a video for Caroline to use and all the leads , every single lead we 've got , to connect any machine to any machine , were all bundled in like a load missing , and it took me what , five minutes to find the right leads and connect the machines up . |
| 9 | I was clumsy and had to pick up a couple of notes from the floor and wipe the bags where I 'd touched them with a handkerchief . |
| 10 | Then everybody wanted it and she had to give up a bit of buttermaking she also did to cope with the demand . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had ladders and broomsticks and poles for the broomsticks and had to climb up a ladder to the top of the roof to get the cobwebs and everything down . |
| 13 | For the last , steepest section we all had to climb up a couloir on foot . |
| 14 | Clarissa had to summon up a lot of courage , but she rang Charity 's door bell . |
| 15 | You have to open up a list of events , choose a date and type in what you plan to do . |
| 16 | the teachers are n't allowed to dictate the children , if they want erm to do something or make something they have to make up a plan of what they 're gon na do first |