Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] give up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly Ferguson has not given up the ghost of trying to land the Championship . |
| 2 | safety candle , but it was very pretty , it 's from Marks & Spencers and she said er your candle has , has just give up the rights of last night . |
| 3 | He has n't given up the practice but he 's , he 's still a partner and he does a large weekend duty for us all |
| 4 | GPU has n't given up the courtroom entirely . |
| 5 | THE parents of the two-year-old hooked on smoking vowed yesterday to give up the habit . |
| 6 | I must beg therefore to give up the appointment and request you to accept my Resignation . |
| 7 | Hocazade soon gave up the kadilik in order to devote himself more fully to but remained as muderris in Iznik until the death of Mehmed II ( 886/1481 ) . |
| 8 | If it was the battery it must have finally given up the ghost , because there was n't even the faintest wheeze or whisper from the starter motor . |
| 9 | The report suggested that the Bulgarian leadership did not give up the idea until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 . |
| 10 | Male homosexuals in a large number of cases , says Freud , do not give up the mother and find another woman as sexual object , but they identify with their mother : ‘ he transforms himself into her and now looks about for objects which can replace his ego for him and on which he can bestow such love and care as he has experienced with his mother ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , my advice to him would be , do n't give up the day job . |
| 12 | do n't give up the day job Nigel … not that he 'd want to … red five flies again at Donington Park on sunday … |
| 13 | That 's about it for July — if the weather is lovely do n't give up the knitting — carry the machine out in the garden and work under the shade of a tree . |
| 14 | Bono and U2 sometimes wonder , but do n't give up the fight . |
| 15 | As the pleasurable feelings which first fuelled my psychological addiction decreased and began to turn sour , it became easier to give up the habit , something which would not be possible with a physically addictive drug such as heroin . |
| 16 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 17 | I treated myself to a night in the Ceilidh Place ; I had not given up the habit of including the dangly earrings and the flowery trousers in the rucksack . |
| 18 | and we 've already given up the essentials in your life the two nine one seven per year which of these will be left to be paid ? |
| 19 | But she felt curiously light-headed , detached , as if she 'd been pushed too far , and her brain had temporarily given up the struggle to cope with this Alice in Wonderland situation . |
| 20 | She said that she had nearly given up the idea , but ‘ every time she met a cripple her conscience smote her ’ . |
| 21 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 22 | You will appreciate that as Chairman I have not given up the fight to get as much financial aid and help as is possible to keep our heads above water ; we must fight to keep all that we hold dear and promote the Medau that we all benefit from both in health and fitness , and as teachers , financially . |
| 23 | This may all seem trivial , but I wonder how many fishkeepers have possibly given up the hobby at an early stage because they were unaware their fish were dying from nothing more sinister than overfeeding with resultant ammonia/nitrite stress — and nobody told them . |