Example sentences of "[vb past] give up the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANNE HAD GIVEN up the rational approach , and picked a passage at random . |
| 2 | Ivan did not interest him , gossip did not interest him , he had given up the personal life . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |