Example sentences of "[adv] give up [art] [noun sg] " 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 | But the Anglicans , like the Lutherans , did not suddenly give up the composition of Latin texts . |
| 5 | Even unravelling the cause can be so time consuming that many managers merely give up the struggle . |
| 6 | An agreement is needed , not merely to give up an amount of liberty , but to put it into the hands of some sovereign power . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They may keep this up time and time again until , with luck , the predator finally gives up the chase . |
| 10 | She might go on for years ; I could be as old as she is now before she finally gives up the ghost . |
| 11 | The lattice windows which Hazlitt remembered were replaced by sashes when the Coleridges finally gave up the cottage at the end of 1799 |
| 12 | With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | What light struggled through the unwashed front window soon gave up the ghost in the air that seemed almost palpably grey . |
| 17 | We soon gave up the hunt . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | THE parents of the two-year-old hooked on smoking vowed yesterday to give up the habit . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The upper classes rapidly gave up the struggle to maintain social exclusivity at the seaside resorts and fled to the Highlands , the Lakes , and eventually the Continent , to pursue their particular pleasures , unhampered by the proximity of their inferiors . |
| 22 | ‘ Captain Marvel ’ Bryan Robson yesterday gave up the fight to keep his 34 year old legs pounding towards a century of caps and announced his England retirement . |
| 23 | But she felt curiously light-headed , detached , as if she 'd been pushed too far , and her brain had temporarily given up the struggle to cope with this Alice in Wonderland situation . |
| 24 | She said that she had nearly given up the idea , but ‘ every time she met a cripple her conscience smote her ’ . |
| 25 | She shrugged her shoulders , temporarily giving up the fight . |
| 26 | Thinking about the bars and wire mesh of her cage , and of how long she would have to be there , he nearly gave up the job there and then . |
| 27 | LUCY SOUTTER , the 22-year-old former champion who nearly gave up the game this year after long-lasting viral problems , unexpectedly reclaimed the British national title at Newcastle yesterday by beating Suzanne Horner 9-3 , 9-5 , 9-3 in a final lasting only 43 minutes . |
| 28 | However , many songwriters still choose to sign an exclusive publishing agreement with a music publisher , thereby giving up a portion of their royalties and fees , and assigning all rights in their songs to that music publisher for a set period of time . |
| 29 | One way to ward off these unwelcome little indicators of stress would seem obvious — immediately give up the exercise that brings them on , and reach for a stiff , hugely relaxing drink . |
| 30 | The scope for misunderstanding and the possibility of simply giving up the attempt increases hugely when the less tangible , less definable aims and outcomes of partnerships are considered . |