Example sentences of "to give up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Over the last three or four years it has gradually got worse and if I ca n't find a cure I might have to give up distance running , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Just as they were about to give up hope of finding their way a huge while wolf appeared , which instead of attacking them began to guide them skilfully through the dark wood . |
| 3 | This is a message to them not to give up hope . |
| 4 | While some believed her husband was dead , Sunnie — real name Dilys but nicknamed Sunnie because of her happy nature — refused to give up hope . |
| 5 | AS Cheryl Landon lay dying in a coma after an horrific car crash only her stepfather refused to give up hope . |
| 6 | When the garrison had begun to give up hope that he would act , he at last did something . |
| 7 | It one thing to accept that she had no future with Harry and quite another to force her heart to give up hope , to stop loving him . |
| 8 | Hugo Brassard keeps telling me not to give up hope . ’ |
| 9 | To give up hope is to give up life before it is taken away . |
| 10 | But brave dad Brendan has vowed not to give up hope and a Europe-wide search is still on to find a suitable donor for Caolan . |
| 11 | were reluctantly constrained to order the defendant to give up possession of 336 , Stocksfield Road to the plaintiffs because of the earlier decision of the Court of Appeal ( Kerr and Woolf L.JJ. ) in South Northamptonshire District Council v. |
| 12 | Part delivery to the buyer does not prevent the remainder being stopped in transit unless the part delivery is made under such circumstances as to show an agreement to give up possession of the whole of the goods . |
| 13 | Nolan , now married with two children , has tried several times to give up healing , but people wo n't let him . |
| 14 | To give up hope is to give up life before it is taken away . |
| 15 | We need to remember that it is no more natural for women to live longer than men than it is for them to have lower incomes , to expect to give up work if their men wish it at marriage or in later life , to be the keepers of family memory , the main carers of those in need , the main sufferers from the empty nest as children leave home . |
| 16 | Now she had become a pensioner she had been able to give up work as a midwife , and she spent much of her time on her allotment : |
| 17 | Only five people specifically mentioned the adverse effect on their work : one daughter said she had had to give up work , and two sons and two daughters-in-law complained of being called away from their work to deal with a problem affecting their mother . |
| 18 | It is n't necessary , to give up work at 60 or 65 and there are agencies which specialise in finding either paid or voluntary employment for people after they have officially retired . |
| 19 | Furthermore , over retiring age the invalid care allowance ends for both men and women because this particular benefit is supposedly based on the carer 's loss of income after having to give up work . |
| 20 | I do n't know , maybe we ought to give up work . |
| 21 | No member of the family has to give up work before the allowance can be claimed and this extra income can sometimes enable a caring daughter to continue in her job if it is used to pay for help at home . |
| 22 | I know I 'm too thin , I do n't like what I look like and I 've been told if I lose any more weight I 'll have to give up work and be admitted to hospital . |
| 23 | The acquisition of Hillmarden House and Alex 's flat , plus the sale of their existing home , made her decide to give up work in June , rather than September . |
| 24 | It was found that single daughters , as carers , were under greater pressure to give up work or take part-time employment rather than remain in full employment ( Wright , 1986 ) . |
| 25 | This benefit allows you to deduct the years when you were required to give up work from the normal qualifying period for a basic pension and so , in effect , shorten the number of years when you would otherwise have been required to make contributions . |
| 26 | She has had to give up work , which has put a financial strain on the family . |
| 27 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 28 | Peter immediately replied , ‘ I would like Susie to give up work and stay at home , so that I can be sure that she is not cheating on me and not planning to leave . ’ |
| 29 | Rhoda had to give up work , and no sickness benefit was available since Ken had never let her succumb to the system and pay national insurance . |
| 30 | Before leaving Merchiston , she was presented with a bouquet of flowers by first year Hospitality Management student , Louise McLernan ; she discussed , with Louise and her class-mates , the level of commitment needed to give up work , as some of them had done , and devote themselves to full-time study . |