Example sentences of "given up " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 2 | I had n't given up , but that was an ever-present temptation which had to be fought . |
| 3 | Fortunately , glider designers seem to have given up all-moving stabilisers in favour of a fixed tailplane and normal elevator . |
| 4 | She 'd given up and love had not visited her lonely shore in years . |
| 5 | The KPNLF , which launched an attack on Saturday , four days after the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops , had given up attempts to occupy the town of Svay Cheak and the capital of Banteay Meanchey province , Sisophon . |
| 6 | WELLINGTON ( AFP , AP ) — Three New Zealanders and an American given up for dead were found alive yesterday after drifting for four months on an upturned trimaran in the south Pacific . |
| 7 | She has even given up her beloved Russian , learnt painstakingly with the help of an old Cyrillic typewriter . |
| 8 | Next door has given up a right of way that goes nowhere . |
| 9 | Of course , he 'd given up medicine to pursue comedy , but he was absolutely at his best when caring for others . |
| 10 | Runner beans and French beans have now given up completely and can be cleared off vegetable plots . |
| 11 | Mr Berecz , on the other hand , has still not given up his seemingly futile struggle , and has been plaguing the congress with constant interruptions . |
| 12 | McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes . |
| 13 | Jaguar retreated 32p to 653p with stories flowing that Ford had given up its pursuit and planned to buy 50 per cent of the Swedish Saab group . |
| 14 | Yes , after we had given up all intention of going there , we have arrived . |
| 15 | I have really almost given up trying to discuss their poems , and just talk about poetry . |
| 16 | He had given up his three stripes to join the Commandos and was now the father of two children , a boy and a girl , his wife living with her parents in Perth . |
| 17 | You have given up your rank of Sergeant to run all over these hills . |
| 18 | He quotes approvingly an anonymous ‘ youth ’ who believes that gay men have given up the battle between men : ‘ they 've submitted to men … . |
| 19 | for their part , the British did not see the Canadian proposal as much of a compromise , and indeed seemed already to have given up on the conference . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , and no doubt too slowly , illusions of grandeur were slowly given up and Britain 's incapacity to live with the superpowers was to a degree accepted . |
| 21 | By mid-season Lotus had given up and gone back to the 72 . |
| 22 | Having given up racing , he kept himself in the thick of things through his Goodyear racing-tyre distributorship and by opening a racing school at Riverside . |
| 23 | During the day , Erika wondered what her mother wanted her for , but after two hours in the gym she had given up wondering , and , indeed , had forgotten about it . |
| 24 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 25 | The prevailing mood is disgust ; at the pathetic inarticulacy of the great ape on a rugby field , Frank Machin , and the blocked emotions of his landlady and lover , who has given up hoping for anything since her husband 's death . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've put it on the back burner , but have never given up the long-term goal of going round the world by sailboat . |
| 27 | He was disappointed , too , that his father had given up artistic ideals in the pursuit of money . |
| 28 | By this time , those hoping to catch the Parkinson statement had , in the finest traditions of BR , given up and walked . |
| 29 | When he began writing again , he had given up realism for allegory about the conflict between , among other things , science and religion . |
| 30 | One of the country 's vice-presidents , Mr Casimir Ionescu , said thousands of Securitate members waging a guerrilla campaign had given up , while hundreds remained at large . |