Example sentences of "given up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't even glad about Constanza 's having given up Lewis . |
| 2 | So , does that mean , since you have given up painting , that you associate painting with stupidity ? |
| 3 | Firstly , you know , I have n't given up painting ; if I get an idea for a painting tomorrow , I 'll do it . |
| 4 | Do you know I 've given up hours and hours of my time to distribute leaflets and address envelopes and argue with miserable people like you who do n't believe anything ? |
| 5 | ‘ They 've given up boiler suits , ’ said Constance , ‘ some time ago — except for the pregnant ones , and that 's a mistake if you like . ’ |
| 6 | I especially hate pubs since I 've given up smoking ( the spurning of which addiction went completely unnoticed by our friend Stuart ) . |
| 7 | He has n't smoked , he 's given up smoking has n't he ? |
| 8 | Within a month he had given up frustration and made his Christmas presents instead . |
| 9 | Clara had actually heard one constant church attender , caught out donating a small charitable sum to the Vicar , defend herself to Mrs Maugham by saying that she had n't really meant to give it , and that she never would have given it if it had n't been that her little boy had just given up Sunday school . |
| 10 | These have given up part of their holdings to provide GSR with its shareholding . |
| 11 | His wife has given up work as a secretary to stay at home with their three young children , yet the law does not allow him to take up her full tax allowance . |
| 12 | Two years earlier Jones had given up work as a hod carrier when Wimbledon signed him from Wealdstone for £10,000 . |
| 13 | For example , what are the support needs of a step-family where the step-mother has recently given up work , had a new baby , where there are two sets of step-children in pre-puberty and puberty who have just changed house and schools , where one set of children have a good relationship with the non-custodial parent and the others do not ? |
| 14 | The fact that a deceased 's widow would have given up work to start a family but for the deceased 's death is not a matter to be taken into account so as to increase her dependency on the deceased from the date that she would have given up work ( Malone v Rowan [ 1984 ] 3 All ER 402 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've given up Sotheby 's . ’ |
| 16 | In a move reportedly designed to persuade the Soviet Union to abandon its rail-mounted mobile intercontinental missile system , the SS-24 , Bush said that the USA had given up plans to develop mobile versions of the MX and Midgetman missiles and that a programme to build the short-range attack missile ( SRAM ) had also been cancelled . |
| 17 | She had almost given up drink . |
| 18 | I thought you had given up drawing-rooms entirely . ’ |
| 19 | And erm these er he must have given up bicycles when the penny farthing was outdated . |
| 20 | They tell you to go on with artificial respiration for ever , for long after you 've given up hope . |
| 21 | Orrell , who have not yet given up hope of winning the Courage League Championship despite last week 's narrow defeat by Wasps , will have Shaun Gallagher back in the line-up for Monday 's fixture at Harlequins . |
| 22 | In any event , and this is the real answer , Bismarck had not yet given up hope of bringing his scheme to a successful conclusion and even though it seemed difficult to envisage just how this could be done , he waited for his moment . |
| 23 | I had given up hope of a reply when , after two months and three days , a letter came which began , ‘ We find your proposals perfectly feasible … ’ . |
| 24 | At this stage , Browns Lane has not given up hope of getting rear seats into the convertible , but it is proving a hard task , and it is probably that only the coupe will be a two-plus-two . |
| 25 | After two years of marriage , they appear to have given up hope of having a child of their own and have filed adoption papers in Palm Beach , Florida . |
| 26 | ‘ But it made a difficult situation impossible , caused distress to her and her husband and sounded the death knell on the marriage which until then , although in difficulties , neither of them had given up hope of saving . ’ |
| 27 | She had married late , at a time she had almost given up hope of finding a husband . |
| 28 | Mother Francis had never given up hope that Eve would live there one day , with a family maybe , and bring back some happiness to the little house that had known only confusion and tragedy . |
| 29 | She sensed that Edna had long given up hope of Celia herself having any children . |
| 30 | He had almost given up hope of meeting Liza on the beach and was considering whether he would , after all , call at Four Winds , despite Eleanor 's warnings , when , to his incredulous delight , on the fifth day of his visit , he saw a different figure scrambling down the cliff followed by a little girl . |