Example sentences of "have to put [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 They buy a cot , a changing table , a convertible buggy/pram , a baby seat to go in the back of the car , a changing mat , a night-light , a sterilizing unit , five large bottles plus teats , five small bottles plus teats , five baby-grows ( newborn size ) , three undervests ( newborn size ) , three pairs of socks ( newborn size ) , a mobile with four fluffy ducks dancing around a clockwork mechanism that plays the Brahms Lullaby , a wallpaper frieze with chickens on it which Paul has to put up in the nursery , a van-sized packet of newborn nappies , a tub of cream to put on the kid 's bottom , a bucket of white emulsion to freshen up the nursery walls , a lampshade with more chickens on it to brighten up the nursery light , a parasol to go on the buggy and a breast pump for expressing milk .
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 It was clear that he made her life happier than it had been , but she still had to put up with the desperately uncomfortable conditions and go out on her terrifying foraging expeditions .
6 ‘ They have already had a bit of excitement , while the rest of the country has had to put up with the phoney war . ’
7 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 .
8 ‘ I really am glad to be home , even if it means having to put up with a typical British summer .
9 Since when he 'd left her alone again , and Dolly was having to put up with the April breeze .
10 Most owners , however , will keep the engine speed between 2000rpm and 4500rpm where there is sufficient torque to outperform any remaining GTi without having to put up with the din from a high-revving multi-valve power GTi unit .
11 On his visit to the château and lunch in the mess there , he singled out Charles with his black buttons and strange headdress and commiserated with him for having to put up with an attachment to what he called ‘ These rather superior beings ’ .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 ‘ 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 .
16 ‘ 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 . ’
17 As well as the noise the couple would have to put up with a landfill site within a few yards of their garden .
18 The position of women has changed in a number of ways , such that a wife does not have to put up with an unsatisfactory marriage in the way that her mother might well have done .
19 I shall just have to put up with the pain . ’
20 Countries opting for soft membership would have to put up with the first , and find substitutes for the second — for instance , by setting ( and hitting ) targets for money-GDP , using both fiscal and monetary policies .
21 ‘ Josh will have to put up with the life that his mother can afford to lead . ’
22 It seems that England might just have to put up with the barracking of the public , press and the other home nations Wales , Scotland and Northern Ireland .
23 You 'll just have to put up with the printer chugging away .
24 The Government are hoping to carry on and according to the Secretary of State for the Environment the people will have to put up with the tax until 1993 .
25 The present players do not have to put up with the old ‘ Chicken Run . ’
26 ‘ 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 .
27 ‘ 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 .
28 Why , I asked , did he find it acceptable for an artist to have to put up with the paltry sums of money he offered when he himself lived in such style ?
29 Natural mothers had to put up with a great deal .
30 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 .
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