Example sentences of "[verb] given [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This does n't mean that ICL has given up on the Texas Instruments Inc Sparc line , simply that it can now pick and choose from the two superscalar implementations on offer , says Mike Coote .
2 In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements .
3 ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’
4 for their part , the British did not see the Canadian proposal as much of a compromise , and indeed seemed already to have given up on the conference .
5 So you 've given up on the town park idea ?
6 It seemed that NoS was going to be the first to tap the huge reservoir of people who had given up on the papers altogether .
7 Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding .
8 In a press conference on Aug. 1 Danforth stated that he " had given up on the administration " but that he intended to introduce his compromise bill when Congress reconvened from its summer recess .
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