Example sentences of "give [pron] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was , it took them two weeks to get back to Kabrit , to a great welcome from their astonished comrades , who had given them up for lost . |
| 2 | Now she thought that she could give it up for three weeks in the Italian sun . |
| 3 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 4 | BUILDER Jim Gladden got his wish yesterday and appeared in the dock — after trying to give himself up for TWO years . |
| 5 | They 're also the sort of chaps who 've spent the past dickhead-infested decade defining their own crotch-sweating sTyLe and they ai n't about to give it up for any passing sausage-munching , garlic-gnashing , cake-shovelling Eurocats or Europrats — 1992 or no 1992 . |
| 6 | You say your life is too precious to give it up for any country and yet it 's not valuable enough for you to pay me two hundred pounds not to shoot you . |
| 7 | It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh . |
| 8 | Bill Dodd , club captain in the 1930s , was one of those players who always gave his all for ninety minutes . |
| 9 | SARNA gives you more for less |
| 10 | Pa bought it at Faversham market where the man gave it away for ten pounds . |