Example sentences of "had [to-vb] up [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone crowded in and Maria had to sit up on the ledge of the window to be seen and heard . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , I had to go up into the roof and push down the ballcock when things went wrong . |
| 3 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
| 4 | Ford knew they had to come up with a winner in the Mondeo and I think they have done just that . |
| 5 | They had to come up with a plan of action on how to set up a Tyrolean Traverse to safety cross the 80 foot wide gorge — and come back again . |
| 6 | The second one was much more difficult because I had to come up with a script every couple of weeks , and there was so much crammed into each one . |
| 7 | ‘ Somehow , we had to come up with a method of telling the body that it was daytime when it thought it was nightime and vice versa , ’ he says . |
| 8 | Clive had to have them , because the competition did , but since the benefits were at best indirect he had to come up with the idea of asking the students from each country to get together and prepare a ‘ typical national dish ’ . |
| 9 | Lucy was already regretting her impulsive words , but , knowing she had to come up with an answer , she said in a matter-of-fact tone , ‘ Silas has already assured me that women will no longer play a part in his life . |
| 10 | She had to stand up in the midst of a certain amount of pomp and ceremony and address a large audience , which included her own family , her husband , the Prime Minister , the Lord Mayor and a host of City dignitaries , many of them accomplished public speakers themselves . |
| 11 | just as Peter Slade had to stand up against a tradition of formalised children 's drama , so Brian Way had to educate teachers into understanding that children deserved something better than light entertainment . |
| 12 | Baby Jesus was real poor , so he had to grow up on a farm and that , and when he got bigger he went round with some friends telling everyone about God , and then he died . |
| 13 | That 's why she would sometimes sign the order over to me so that I could put it through my account — otherwise she had to queue up at the post office , as I said . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is said he had to put up with a sofa in the corridor until his identity was revealed . |
| 16 | He conducted himself impeccably , he was open and honest and had to put up with a lot from the press and media . |
| 17 | We had to put up with a succession of dead grannies , occult trivia , psychic charades , aura readings and attempts to probe the future . |
| 18 | ‘ He 'd been out of football for nine months in France , and he had to put up with the boo-ing . |
| 19 | So he just had to put up with the noise . |
| 20 | We had to put up with the traffic . |
| 21 | He had been ten weeks in the bush , a womanless bush , and Olga Stych had to put up with the fact . |
| 22 | The pot was taller than a man , and a prisoner had to climb up on a table in order to extract a sample with a huge ladle . |
| 23 | I had to stock up for the holiday break . ’ |
| 24 | But down came melancholy like a guillotine and he had to wake up before the steel cut the quivering cold sweaty flesh . |
| 25 | He just had to turn up on the day . |
| 26 | Would-be delinquents in Saltash during most of the Nineteenth century had to face up to the threat of a short , sharp punishment ; a visit to the ‘ Black Hole ’ under the escort of one of the ancient borough 's best known characters , ‘ Nandie ’ Keast . |
| 27 | But he would not countenance a " Party within a Party , " and the NAC had to face up to the consequences of maintaining a separate party in Parliament . |
| 28 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 29 | She had to face up to the fact that her father meant business , and that once more Ace was going to be put into an impossible position because of her . |
| 30 | ‘ When it was time for me to fire the very pistol , I had to get up from the wireless operator 's seat and had to move my parachute — which was always as close to my feet as possible and instead of lifting it up by the canvas carrying handle , I lifted it up by the metal handle ( the rip cord ) and so had a bundle of silk to get out of the way . |