Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] given up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She said that she had nearly given up the idea , but ‘ every time she met a cripple her conscience smote her ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |