Example sentences of "had [to-vb] up [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He turned left down an alley without indicating and I had to carve up a Volvo with Swedish number plates in order to follow him . |
| 3 | They were so poor that they had to grind up the bark of trees to make flour for their bread . |
| 4 | ‘ If you had to sum up the idea of Playboy it is anti-Puritanism , ’ said Hefner at the time . |
| 5 | Cartoonists draw pictures and make jokes about who had to clean up the mess below decks , or how many rabbits there were on board when the flood went down . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even without your help I 'd find my family , ’ she said in a low tone , ‘ and it would n't matter if I had to look up every Corosini in the phone book and knock on a hundred doors . ’ |
| 9 | Then everybody wanted it and she had to give up a bit of buttermaking she also did to cope with the demand . |
| 10 | In due course , however , the Collector had to give up the idea of shovelling under these conditions . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For the last , steepest section we all had to climb up a couloir on foot . |
| 15 | I had to knock up the girl in the Post Office to find out where you lived and — here I am . |
| 16 | But first we had to heat up the tyre in the oven we 'd built on purpose to do this . |
| 17 | Clarissa had to summon up a lot of courage , but she rang Charity 's door bell . |