Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] gave up the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost . |
| 2 | What light struggled through the unwashed front window soon gave up the ghost in the air that seemed almost palpably grey . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The lattice windows which Hazlitt remembered were replaced by sashes when the Coleridges finally gave up the cottage at the end of 1799 |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | Nomads never gave up the fight , but had no answer to an Alresford side on top form . |
| 9 | Nomads never gave up the fight , but had no answer to an Alresford side on top form . |
| 10 | The government thereby gave up the attempt to impose a solution and admitted that the people of Northern Ireland must be given an opportunity to work out for themselves how they should be governed . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Some boys simply gave up the struggle for power , or scarcely attempted it . |