Example sentences of "have put [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah he is he has put on about a stone since he 's stopped smoking though |
| 2 | ‘ She 's a very sensitive child , though she 's had to put up with a lot already , her mother being ill so much . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | What was more , they 've had to put up with a relief milker while their herdsman was laid up with flu . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I really am glad to be home , even if it means having to put up with a typical British summer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | That bias towards comfort has meant compromises as far as sporting handling is concerned ; so you do n't have to put up with a jittery ride over poorly made up roads . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ You will all have to put up with a certain amount of unwelcome attention from the Press , but I have warned them that we will not tolerate any interference with your golf . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | As well as the noise the couple would have to put up with a landfill site within a few yards of their garden . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lydia , picturing Hywel 's dark eyes , thought that he 'd probably have put up with a great deal rather than have strangers in his house . |
| 15 | well drove out and turned , her bumper caught Mick 's wing and right up against the wheel so imagine to pull it out to drive it and the driver said oh wo n't claim on the insurance she said , erm , I 'll pay it , get three estimates and let me have them and Mick said it 's gon na be about three hundred quid , well if it had gone through the insurance he could then have put in for a hire car |
| 16 | ‘ However , I have concluded that it is too much to expect of my colleagues in Government and in Parliament to have to put up with a constant barrage of stories about me in certain tabloid newspapers . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | Natural mothers had to put up with a great deal . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is said he had to put up with a sofa in the corridor until his identity was revealed . |
| 21 | We had to put up with a succession of dead grannies , occult trivia , psychic charades , aura readings and attempts to probe the future . |
| 22 | He conducted himself impeccably , he was open and honest and had to put up with a lot from the press and media . |
| 23 | At the age of 75 , Olivier visited Richard to see a play he was directing and attended a midnight student production he had put on in a Hollywood garage with other students . |
| 24 | I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape . |
| 25 | Her husband , who had put up with a great deal , and was to put up with much more , was not yet prepared to lose his marital rights . |
| 26 | He had put up at a cheap pension , the Hospedaje Lisboa ( ‘ Camas , Comidas ’ — Rooms , Meals ) , where he had an even smaller room than the one assigned to me at the Colegio . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I 've put on over a stone |
| 30 | And this is , I mean , what they 're asking , actually to be fair to them they 've put in for a thousand pound against three . |