Example sentences of "to give up [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She agreed to give up her home and some furniture was brought for her present accommodation . |
| 2 | She had to give up her land , Davide remembered , and move out . |
| 3 | She was even able to give up her wheelchair and return to Picklenash School in early July and take part in the annual sports day . |
| 4 | Harry can not accept the fact that she has activities and commitments that do not directly relate to him , and keeps up a constant pressure on her to give up her job so that they can spend all their time together . |
| 5 | Brigitte , aged sixteen in 1943 , hoped to give up her job as a messenger to do secretarial studies full time : |
| 6 | She would be able to give up her job as secretary in the medical physics department at Larksoken Power Station and start the first of the two children she had planned . |
| 7 | His wife , Jeanette , 46 , had been forced to give up her job . |
| 8 | Karen was forced to give up her job to look after her daughter and the family is now heavily in debt , with the prospect of a bleak Christmas . |
| 9 | Now Marie may have to give up her job because Lucy 's gran can not travel to the new school . |
| 10 | Employees with wives who are actively pursuing their own careers are also likely to encounter problems overseas , especially if the wife is forced to give up her job because of her husband 's transfer and her role abroad does not enable her to work or to develop other satisfactory activities . |
| 11 | Recently his complaints had been more and more concerned with his wife : he had even asked the doctor to ‘ tell Susie ’ to give up her job and stay at home . |
| 12 | The crunch comes when Grant , concerned about the risks posed by Jane 's work , asks her to give up her job with the police force . |
| 13 | ‘ She wants him to ask her to get married and he wants her to give up her job , which is the only thing she 's ever wanted to do . |
| 14 | ‘ She had to give up her job and she had to buy things . |
| 15 | Her health began to fail during the recent drought and as a result she had to give up her job . |
| 16 | And now that she was clearly going to have to give up her job — Ross had made it clear that he would n't approve of her returning to work , and especially not when she was expecting a baby — having something to get her teeth into , such as restoring an ancient building , sounded a great idea . |
| 17 | Her mother , Valerie , had returned to teaching after her family were off her hands , but she had been forced to give up her job to give Jennifer the care she needed . |
| 18 | It was Nicolo who was obsessed , so obsessed that he 'd insisted his only reason for urging her to give up her job and stay here was so she could help his grandmother get well . |
| 19 | Married to a man she did n't know , forced to give up her job , her life in Britain and her boyfriend . |
| 20 | She may have to give up her job . |
| 21 | Now , even a little housework leaves her breathless and her doctor wants her to give up her job as a cook . |
| 22 | She can no longer drive because of her visual handicap , had to give up her job and can not pursue her former hobbies of walking and gardening . |
| 23 | In 1975 she had had to give up her job as a council clerkess as she had contracted asbestos-related pleurisy and pleural thickening . |
| 24 | She even acknowledges she was tempted to give up her job at one stage and go on to social security as she would then have been entitled to free legal aid . |
| 25 | Manuela , who is known as Manola to most of her friends , had to give up her job at Cholsey 's Fairmile Hospital after twenty two years there because of the painful lung disease . |
| 26 | If anyone could persuade Suzie to give up her madcap scheme it would be she , Gina . |
| 27 | There was always a certain resentment , whenever they came to visit , at having to give up her study . |
| 28 | Her face betrayed not the least preparedness to concede , to give up her role . |
| 29 | She thought of the agency folding , of having to give up her flat , of Sebastian , who had devoted his life to his business , paying with divorce as the price of his involvement , of Jenny in Media Research who had just got married and was struggling with a mortgage , or Ben , one of the account executives , whose wife was in hospital awaiting a kidney transplant . |
| 30 | Viola would have to give up her career , of course — otherwise she would be coming home the same time as Gina , which would not do at all . |