Example sentences of "[adv] give up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overtaking needs a bit more planning , but for those who have long since given up the chase and opted for a more dignified life , this is a lot of car for the money plus a BMW badge to ride behind . |
| 2 | But I think they 've more or less given up the ghost . |
| 3 | She had long given up the tussle with French and lapsed into straight English ( which Therese , damn it , was supposed to understand ) . |
| 4 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 5 | But the Anglicans , like the Lutherans , did not suddenly give up the composition of Latin texts . |
| 6 | Even unravelling the cause can be so time consuming that many managers merely give up the struggle . |
| 7 | Individualists who concede too much give up the very explanations which , from their perspective , make the phenomena intelligible . |
| 8 | An agreement is needed , not merely to give up an amount of liberty , but to put it into the hands of some sovereign power . |
| 9 | Two of those are being heated by burning blast furnace gas and the third one has the cold air blown through it and the brickwork inside gives up the heat to the er cold air , warms the air and then that 's blown into the blast furnace . |
| 10 | Gen. Saw Maung , the Prime Minister and Chair of the ruling military State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , who was believed to be in poor mental and physical health , relinquished the post of Defence Minister on March 20 , having already given up the Foreign Affairs portfolio in September 1991 [ see p. 38440 ] . |
| 11 | and we 've already given up the essentials in your life the two nine one seven per year which of these will be left to be paid ? |
| 12 | If it was the battery it must have finally given up the ghost , because there was n't even the faintest wheeze or whisper from the starter motor . |
| 13 | The interlopers soon give up the unequal contest . |
| 14 | I wish I could be like you and just give up the Glens for Linfield . |
| 15 | safety candle , but it was very pretty , it 's from Marks & Spencers and she said er your candle has , has just give up the rights of last night . |
| 16 | They may keep this up time and time again until , with luck , the predator finally gives up the chase . |
| 17 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 18 | The lattice windows which Hazlitt remembered were replaced by sashes when the Coleridges finally gave up the cottage at the end of 1799 |
| 19 | Caught inextricably in that cycle , with pregnancies to confuse and exacerbate the situation , Elizabeth Titford 's body finally gave up the struggle in June ; with tragic inevitability , we might be tempted to say , looking back with the advantage of hindsight . |
| 20 | With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost . |
| 21 | His own worst experience ‘ in the past year , anyway ’ involved a Friday 7pm service from Kings Cross that started late , had no buffet car , and after more stops than the Minster organ finally gave up the ghost at Doncaster . |
| 22 | We soon gave up the hunt . |
| 23 | Hocazade soon gave up the kadilik in order to devote himself more fully to but remained as muderris in Iznik until the death of Mehmed II ( 886/1481 ) . |
| 24 | What light struggled through the unwashed front window soon gave up the ghost in the air that seemed almost palpably grey . |
| 25 | Fran struggled briefly , but soon gave up the uneven match , letting herself rest against his chest while he stroked her hair with a surprisingly gentle hand . |
| 26 | This may all seem trivial , but I wonder how many fishkeepers have possibly given up the hobby at an early stage because they were unaware their fish were dying from nothing more sinister than overfeeding with resultant ammonia/nitrite stress — and nobody told them . |
| 27 | erm This has a knock-on effect insofar as if they 've once given up the physical sciences , then it means that they 've given up all hopes , when they leave school , of following a , a job or a profession , of courses in further or higher education , in technological , engineering subjects . |
| 28 | THE parents of the two-year-old hooked on smoking vowed yesterday to give up the habit . |
| 29 | Bonar Law promptly gave up the whole idea , with obvious relief , as he told Balfour : |
| 30 | Even if it were true that the Tsar was long dead , as people said , Abie knew that no army ever gave up the hunt for a deserter . |