Example sentences of "[noun] finally [verb] 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 | When Richard finally took up the scrip and staff of a pilgrim , the latter broke under him . |
| 3 | When his case finally came up the evidence of the couple 's daughter , who had been watching the whole incident , was torn to shreds by Russell 's lawyer . |
| 4 | As their 35ft yacht , the Blue Doublet , bobbed about on the choppy waters , Commander Tim Laurence finally plucked up the courage to pop the question . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Plummer finally plucked up the receiver . |
| 7 | The lattice windows which Hazlitt remembered were replaced by sashes when the Coleridges finally gave up the cottage at the end of 1799 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They may keep this up time and time again until , with luck , the predator finally gives up the chase . |