Example sentences of "have given up [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and this is compounded by the fact that the executive branch has given up any attempt to control the military-industrial complex . |
| 2 | Teresa Moylan ( Mrs Clements ) has given up full time work because of her children . |
| 3 | We 've waited so long , I 'd given up all hope of ever having a bairn . ’ |
| 4 | She 'd given up all hope of having children , you see . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 'd like to know the truth , I 'd given up all thought of trying to persuade you to visit Bertha . |
| 6 | Peter Alliss might have given up competitive golf in the early 1970s but he still a formidable force out on the course . |
| 7 | Having given up all hope of getting hold of a man for herself alone , she would be prepared to share one as the next best thing . |
| 8 | He appears to have given up steady work . |
| 9 | ‘ Now I 've given up all hope ( of returning to Formula One ) . ’ |
| 10 | Dalgliesh remembered a surgeon once telling him that Miles Kynaston had shown promise of becoming a brilliant diagnostician , but had given up general medicine for pathology at registrar level because he could no longer bear to watch human suffering . |
| 11 | Roland had given up all thought , in any case not very realistic , of discussing the purloined letters with Blackadder . |
| 12 | She had given up all idea of exercising any power over fate . |
| 13 | She had given up all hope of ever bringing Oreste over . |
| 14 | But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered . |
| 15 | Ted had given up all hope of enlarging his holding and was concentrating his efforts on farming his existing soil , making a reasonable living from his multiplicity of vegetable crops , when a letter arrived one day explaining to him that if he still wanted to buy the adjoining land , the owners were interested in discussing the matter . |
| 16 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |
| 17 | The timing of the goal was a vital ingredient of this delirium , of course ( I for one had given up all hope by then ) , as was the venue ( we had n't won up there for decades ) ; but what really gave the night meaning was the anxiety and despair , year after year of it , that had gone before . |
| 18 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 19 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 20 | War heroes who served on the Russian convoys had given up all hope of receiving the award issued by the old Soviet Union . |
| 21 | Many ex-servicemen had given up all hope of ever seeing the tribute after the Ministry of Defence warned supplies could dry up following the break-up of the USSR . |
| 22 | Yes , after we had given up all intention of going there , we have arrived . |
| 23 | There was no immediate sign of an answer , but after Creggan had given up any hope of a reply and was looking at the path lights beginning to come on in the Park outside the Zoo there was a subtle shift of talons in Slorne 's cage , a gentle shift of wings , the swiftest of meek glances , and Creggan , too late to catch the look full on , yet sensed that in her mute way Slorne was saying ‘ Yes , oh yes , you were right to predict her return ’ This knowledge that another eagle there believed his prediction had been right gave Creggan comfort in those first weeks in the Cages . |
| 24 | Time and again it appeared that people had given up secure employment to farm full-time . |
| 25 | Following the flooding of RFK Stadium , the Washington Redskins have given up all hope of making another Superbowl — but the city 's new Red Herrings are an increasingly powerful force in major league water-polo . |
| 26 | I have given up all idea now of going to Kings and shall make my way across the Island as quickly as I can making a call or two on the way . |