Example sentences of "[verb] given up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The predator , by the time it has given up the chase , will probably have forgotten the exact location of the nest and will not be able to retrace its steps . |
| 2 | Even Japan has given up the fight in some market areas where they used to be world leaders : And even the new industrial nations , in their turn , will eventually be undercut and have to move on : To what ? |
| 3 | Sun Microsystems Inc , one of the players , has given up the SparcWare designation used by its Catalyst independent software vendor programme to the group 's new binary-compatible branding scheme . |
| 4 | My chief 's brother has given up the obstetrics side of his practice altogether now , and just does the gynaecology . ’ |
| 5 | However I know that one Christian friend has given up the therapy because of the amount of occult literature and New Age material she was receiving through the post . |
| 6 | An executive from an international chemical company has given up the rat race to run a plant nursery . |
| 7 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 8 | Gloucestershire skipper Tony Wright has given up the captain 's job … the county are bottom of the championship table … have n't won a game and Wright thinks it 's time to let someone else have a go |
| 9 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 10 | Anyway , I thought you 'd given up the notion of revenge . ’ |
| 11 | Until last week , she worked as a cleaner at the local community centre , but colleagues say she 'd given up the job to spend more time with her sick mother . |
| 12 | I can not resist saying that when Japan finally exchanges her peaceful simplicity , her admiration for , and artistic appreciation of , Nature 's beauties , and her contented national life , for the storm stress , and hurry of that feverish existence known to the West , she will have given up the substance for the shadow . |
| 13 | Had it not been for Pam 's voice cajoling him onward and upward , he would have given up the struggle . |
| 14 | At this stage most people would have given up the struggle and for a time settled for Ted , who by now had enlisted new blood into his team , including the trusty old campaigner , John Peyton , and Peter Walker , who was re-engaged as Ted 's campaign manager . |
| 15 | Add a small local earthquake and most men would have given up the ghost . |
| 16 | I tell you another thing that amazes me , how any one with a Sovereign right , were a Sovereign in those days , could have given up the palace of Westminster which is so beautiful , palace , together I suppose reigned after the Duke of is it ? |
| 17 | From the 1920s to the 1940s he acted as the principal representative of the provisional administration in Washington , having given up the presidency . |
| 18 | The mixed feelings at having given up the struggle to cope with the family member at home can lead to a diminution of visits , which may be painful at times . |
| 19 | It was either that or dump herself on to the perch in a heap , having given up the struggle , and she was much too graceful and proud to let something as undignified as that happen . |
| 20 | By the following morning 's exercises — discussion of how to set about winning a Labour seat when the other candidate wo n't share a public platform with you , a mock television interview and a debate , several of the candidates who appeared strongest — including a chairman of the party 's Bow Group — seem to have given up the fight . |
| 21 | She reached the end of the corridor , but he seemed to have given up the chase already . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've given up the cello for the moment , ’ said Finch . |
| 23 | He could take her away , I thought , he could just do that , he has such power to hurt me , this little furry creature who has n't even noticed that I 've given up the weed . |
| 24 | And now , sitting legs stretched , on a chair too low comfortably to accommodate his six feet two inches , eyes fixed on that single taper , unflickering in the incense-heavy stillness , he could hear again the tone , taut with self-disgust , in which Berowne had explained why he had given up the law : |
| 25 | Doctors said that while his heart was fine , his vascular system had given up the ghost . |
| 26 | Who had given up the ghost . |
| 27 | That was when Kleiber had given up the struggle and collapsed , limp and helpless as a rag doll . |
| 28 | After he had given up the slave trade and was already hoping to be ordained , he was appointed tide-surveyor in the port of Liverpool with duties that included the inspection of incoming vessels . |
| 29 | Some of the less educated women in Askham 's ( 1975 ) Aberdeen study had given up the pill as a result of such articles in popular newspapers and had become pregnant in consequence . |
| 30 | By then many women in social class I ( 45 per cent ) had given up the pill , compared to 39 per cent in class II and 28 per cent of the others . |