Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] give up " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , socioeconomic preconditions and reasons for giving up smoking have not been investigated to the same extent . |
| 2 | I know there are terrible things out there , but that is n't an excuse for giving up on that which sustains us in this life . |
| 3 | He said you 'd been sticking your nose in where it was n't wanted , and had n't heeded warnings from your superiors about giving up finding an espionage connection with Mills ' murder . ’ |
| 4 | But I still had doubts about giving up my job at Lloyds insurance firm , so for another year ( they were yearly contracts then ) I was allowed to keep the job , training two nights a week and playing in the reserves . |
| 5 | Many thanks for giving up your time to meet myself and my colleagues last week . |
| 6 | But the dentist supplied her with a religion for a while : the religion of giving up everything for someone else . |
| 7 | You may notice during the beginning of Stage I that you experience some withdrawal symptoms as a direct result of giving up certain foods and drinks that you usually consume . |
| 8 | Nigel had absolutely no intention of giving up any of his rights , and thus an examination of social security and tax together was impossible . |
| 9 | She waters the plot every day and seems to have no intention of giving up , since she saves her own seed every year . |
| 10 | but the young father has no intention of giving up his son to them . |
| 11 | But three of them — Ciskei , Kwazulu , and Bophuthatswana — are ruled by men who hate the ANC and have no intention of giving up their power . |
| 12 | She discovered that she had no intention of making Sister Ignatia 's offer plain to Peter , and no intention of giving up Pricewell 's . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , now perhaps you 'll understand why I have no intention of giving up anything , ’ Jenna stated . |
| 14 | He covered them both with the cool sheets but he had no intention of giving up his questioning . |
| 15 | Timothy Sainsbury , the Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , on March 7 insisted in the British House of Commons that the UK had no intention of giving up sovereignty of the islands and that the issue was not on the political agenda . |
| 16 | It was a sore point with Norma Kingsdale that her elder daughter had no intention of giving up her career if and when she decided to start a family . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been hard at it for several weeks now , and have no intention of giving up now , ’ said a spokesman , who also rebutted claims by Irish politicians that Scottish Enterprise has used a dirty tricks campaign to ensure Digital remains in Scotland . |
| 18 | As he tried , several times , to restart his car before giving up and pushing it on to the verge to await rescue , traffic on the M8 from Glasgow quickly built up until there was a three-mile tailback . |
| 19 | Herbal cigarettes are not recommended as an aid to giving up smoking because they contain both tar and carbon monoxide . |
| 20 | Dr Michael Russell of the Addiction Research Unit , commented : ‘ Nicotine replacement has less than 5 per cent of the risk of smoking ’ , while Dr Chris Steele , who runs a smoking cessation clinic in Manchester and is the author of books on giving up smoking , added : ‘ A smoker with any smoking-related disease would be far , far safer to change over to nicotine gum than to continue smoking . |
| 21 | He 's basically kind of given up erm cricket . |
| 22 | Now it was simply a matter of whether the embarrassment of a Foinavon victory could be headed off , but he was thirty lengths in the lead turning away from the Canal Turn and showed no signs of giving up . |
| 23 | The longest surviving sovereign of the age , the Emperor Muhammed Shah ( called Rangila , or the Colourful ) , survived by the simple ruse of giving up any pretence of ruling : in the morning he watched partridge and elephant fights ; in the afternoon he was entertained by jugglers , ventriloquists , mime artists and conjurors . |
| 24 | Her near nervous breakdown , which took her to the brink of giving up all she had worked for in showbusiness , was all the more surprising to outsiders given it happened in her native Australia . |
| 25 | The bond which grows up between them is some compensation for giving up mother . |
| 26 | There nevertheless remain some aspects of the scheme which demonstrate how difficult it seems to be for government to jettison the original ideas of the Beveridge Report ; for example , the Invalid Care Allowance ( ICA ) , which was introduced as recently as 1976 , is not payable to married women on the grounds that they are likely to be at home anyway and hence not in need of compensation for giving up paid work in order to care for a chronically sick person in their household ( Groves and Finch , 1983 ) ; the tax system ( which is not under detailed discussion here ) still assumes that all men need an additional allowance to help pay for the cost of ‘ keeping ’ a wife . |
| 27 | France signed an agreement with China whereby in return for giving up the territorial concessions in the treaty ports , handing over the Yunnan railway , and meeting sundry other Chinese demands , they agreed to withdraw their troops from Indo-China by 15 March . |
| 28 | Though the Khmers Rouges have made it clear that they would consider taking part in a coalition government , they have remained silent on the question of giving up their weapons . |
| 29 | But in spite of the problems , there was never any question of giving up . |
| 30 | Politically , Scotland seemed to have sacrificed her independence by giving up her own Parliament in exchange for a very limited representation in that of England . |