Example sentences of "give up [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Do n't give up at the first mistake ; ask God to forgive you and help you to start all over again . |
| 2 | Many give up at the first hurdle before discovering the eventual and significant rewards . ’ |
| 3 | No partnership has a guarantee of happiness , and if you give up at the first hint of discord you 'll never find the rewards a mature and honest relationship can bring . |
| 4 | ALTHOUGH 63 per cent of new mothers breastfeed their babies , 15 per cent give up in the first week after birth , according to a survey by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |
| 5 | WordPerfect has given up on the Wild West theme in favour of giving away peagreen baseball hats . |
| 6 | If the liquid was meant to flow into the chamber from some high point on the hillside and then out to the tank supplying the house , it had given up in the hot weather and was no longer doing so . |
| 7 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 8 | San Jose , California-based Cypress Semiconductor Corp claims performance leadership in the Sparc world with its superscalar HyperSparc , but has been less than successful in gaining design wins against the Texas Instruments Inc SuperSparc — and Cypress has now decided to give up on the unequal struggle . |
| 9 | At 78 he still refused to stop work : ‘ My advice to parents is not to give up to the rising generation the place you have occupied in the world so long , because there are some who are very near to you who would turn round and put you out homeless and penniless . ’ |
| 10 | They seemed to give up in the second half , failed to mark anyone , gave Wallace ( who was running riot ) as much space as he wanted , and left Quinn up , waddling around ( usually into an offside position ) like a half-deflated barrage baloon ( with a tache ) . |
| 11 | To release this time you must not tolerate desultory study , giving up at the slightest excuse before any solid result is accomplished . |
| 12 | He made a show of pursuit , but gave up at the first intersection , returning to Jude breathless . |
| 13 | First , Easington Secondary Modern School for Boys was opened in 1952 ; the former elementary schools in and around Banbury gave up to the new campus their boys over the age of eleven . |
| 14 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 15 | Also in 1990 , 15pc of mothers gave up in the first week , and 38pc by the sixth , compared with 14pc in the first week and 39pc by week six in 1985 . |