Example sentences of "[verb] given [adv prt] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So you 've given up on the town park idea ? |
| 5 | Pete had given up on the stew and was eating the pudding . |
| 6 | 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 . |