Example sentences of "[pron] gave [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it was charming I was not at all happy there so I gave up the grandiose life and moved over to the Peel Street YMCA . |
| 2 | I made myself eat liver — they hate liver — and I gave up the odd episode of ‘ Coronation Street ’ to read them Rudyard Kipling — with actions and funny voices . |
| 3 | In fact in our tenement " penthouse " I once unearthed several roller-skates which I cannibalised until finally there was only one , at which point I gave up the unequal struggle on a solo skate . |
| 4 | The meta-analysis was done with the statistical technique which gave either the highest p value for association or the lowest p value for heterogeneity ( Cochran 's method , Mantel-Haenzel method , Peto 's method , difference of rates , logarithm of odds ratio , Der Simonian 's method ) . |
| 5 | However , only one month earlier the High Court had reached a decision in W. H. Smith Do It All Ltd and Payless DIY Ltd v. Peterborough City Council [ 1990 ] 2 CMLR 577 , which gave exactly the opposite result . |
| 6 | It finished ( as a bowler ) the former Derbyshire player , Fred Swarbrook , who gave up the unequal struggle when , peering frantically around to see where a delivery had gone , he found out only when the ball dropped out of the stratosphere and hit him on top of the head . |
| 7 | You gave quite the opposite impression over dinner . ’ |
| 8 | We gave up the written report quite frankly because we found it a waste of time . |
| 9 | Rather than swallow any more of what to him was the worst kind of mealy-mouthed claptrap , he gave up the vital therapy of letter writing and lapsed into total silence . |
| 10 | Elias Hrawi , the West Beirut-based ( Christian ) President , reportedly responded by saying that there would be no deal with Aoun until he gave up the presidential palace at Baabda and the Army command at Yarzeh . |
| 11 | He gave not the slightest sign of having heard her , continuing to stroke her neck , and now inserting his fingers under the neckline of her nightshift . |
| 12 | It gave easily the best value . |