Example sentences of "give [adv prt] the [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've given up the cello for the moment , ’ said Finch . |
| 3 | I can not resist saying that when Japan finally exchanges her peaceful simplicity , her admiration for , and artistic appreciation of , Nature 's beauties , and her contented national life , for the storm stress , and hurry of that feverish existence known to the West , she will have given up the substance for the shadow . |
| 4 | Secondly , and perhaps inevitably arising out of the first situation , the young adult who joins the sub-culture of deafness and uses sign language has , in the community 's eyes , given up the search for sameness and therefore society 's help comes in a ‘ care for the disabled ’ package . |
| 5 | The weather being too boisterous to admit of a boat being lowered , I endeavoured to capture the bird with a hook and line , and the ordinary sea-hooks being too large for the purpose , I was in the act of selecting a hook from my stock of salmon-flies , when a sudden gust of wind blew my hooks , and a piece of parchment ten inches long by six inches wide on which they were lying , overboard into the sea , and I was obliged to give up the attempt for that day ; on the next I succeeded in capturing the bird with a hook baited with fat , and the reader may judge of my surprise when on opening the stomach I there found the piece of parchment , so completely uninjured that it was dried and again restored to its original use. , |
| 6 | ’ Especially when I told him you were highly unlikely to give up the phetam for me . ’ |
| 7 | Some boys simply gave up the struggle for power , or scarcely attempted it . |
| 8 | But the suggestion is that he was the black sheep , because he gave up the throne for a woman . |
| 9 | He pouches the ball with the eye of a major league outfielder , and that is because he was a player of some repute before he gave up the bat for the bag at the start of the 1970s . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Julian gives up the hunt for that elusive pressing plant |