Example sentences of "[verb] give up [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rita has given up the daily struggle to clear the family 's only dining table of the piles of skirts to be hemmed , the cottons , machine , and bags . |
| 2 | ‘ Because I 've decided to give up the artificial fiction of being myself for the genuine , satisfying falseness of being somebody else . |
| 3 | Of course we have had to give up the strict ordering of the series in horizontal segments , but the |
| 4 | Despite talk of ‘ peaceful coexistence ’ with the West after Stalin , Russian leaders never intended to give up the ideological struggle with capitalism . |
| 5 | Now she would have given up every lingering resentment , every long and bitter hatred , to have the boy back at Adam 's banker , humbly cutting stone . |
| 6 | For as well as suggesting that if we were to give up the view that most actions are autonomous we should have to give up a great deal else as well , it asserts that this transformation of our attitudes is actually beyond us . |
| 7 | An occasional treat or privilege for a child who has made a big effort to master a new skill or managed to give up a bad habit hardly comes into that category . |
| 8 | There are occasional strips of terraced houses , whose occupants seem to have given up the unequal struggle against the noise and pollution of the ring road , and retreated to their back rooms , for the frontages are peeling and dilapidated and the curtains sag in the windows with a permanently drawn look . |
| 9 | A BUS manager who was forced to give up a rural route said yesterday she was fed up with the whole business . |
| 10 | They had even been forced to give up the prestigious Company barge , unable to afford the cost of its repair and the wages of the bargemaster . |
| 11 | All right , yes , ’ knowing that she would n't be able to do it ; there were so many factors against it : the old woman along the corridor depending on her ; Charlie , who had given up a good part of his life waiting for her . |
| 12 | I had given up a good job to go there and when I came back after the adventure I had looked forward to for so long , I was very disappointed with myself . |
| 13 | I had had a whole afternoon spent upon me , been the centre of attention , cost the State a fortune and my wife had given up a whole day of precious work to be with me . |
| 14 | ANNE HAD GIVEN up the rational approach , and picked a passage at random . |
| 15 | Ivan did not interest him , gossip did not interest him , he had given up the personal life . |
| 16 | The company had to give up the surplus stock it had accumulated at the expense of the public creditors and rescind its claims to be paid in full for the amount it had sold , but the real victims were the public creditors , who had to reconcile themselves to drastic losses in income and capital . |
| 17 | I was surrounded by a crowd of shouting , gesticulating Malts , who pulled at my parachute , lifted my head and drove me so furious that I had to give up the dying idea in order to concentrate completely on kicking every Malt who came within range . |
| 18 | However I had to learn to delegate responsibility and realize that in climbing the executive ladder one had to give up the basic satisfaction of creative production . |
| 19 | There is intense perceived pain in contemplating giving up the mood-altering substance or behaviour and making further major changes in these " pictures " of reality . |