Example sentences of "have give up the [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 | Of course we have had to give up the strict ordering of the series in horizontal segments , but the |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ANNE HAD GIVEN up the rational approach , and picked a passage at random . |
| 5 | Ivan did not interest him , gossip did not interest him , he had given up the personal life . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |