Example sentences of "give up the [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't want that and he would n't give up the mistress either — not for three years . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ It 'll just collapse and give up the ghost somewhere in France . |
| 3 | And people who strangle their infants , thus causing their admissions , must give up the practice thereafter . |
| 4 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 5 | She reached the end of the corridor , but he seemed to have given up the chase already . |
| 6 | GPU has n't given up the courtroom entirely . |
| 7 | Momentarily undecided as to whether to go on looking or to give up the chase there and then , her eyes lingered on the stranger 's face , and for a heart-beat , or less , his features blurred , and in their flux , caught as if by the sun off a wing in the stratosphere , she saw Gentle , his hair swept back from his high forehead , his grey eyes all yearning , his mouth , which she 'd not known she missed till now , ready to break into a smile . |
| 8 | When my injured back threatened to give up the ghost completely after 17 steady miles , I could n't have bought more encouragement and warmth from the people of Harlem and the Bronx who spotted the slogan on my T-shirt and never stopped yelling ‘ All the way , Linda , looking good Liverpool maternity hospitals , you can do it , go … ‘ |
| 9 | Cunningham ( 1982 ) reports that if parents decide to give up the baby permanently , it is ‘ for the parents who make it , the right decision , . |
| 10 | She would not be sorry to give up the job there . |
| 11 | He became so desperate at one stage that it crossed his mind to give up the game altogether . |
| 12 | There is growing opposition in Germany to giving up the deutschmark without any real return in political union , which Chancellor Kohl had said was a precondition of moving to a single currency . |
| 13 | The other is that Mr Rabin 's decision to seal off the occupied territories — the closure is now in its second month — has made most Israelis feel a lot safer , and some of them a lot happier about giving up the territories altogether . |
| 14 | What is he giving up the farm then ? |
| 15 | Finally the engine gave up the ghost completely and nothing could persuade it to start again . |
| 16 | I gave up the job there and then and headed for Brazil . |
| 17 | Thinking about the bars and wire mesh of her cage , and of how long she would have to be there , he nearly gave up the job there and then . |
| 18 | After that Jack gave up the skiing altogether and I took it very steady . |
| 19 | ‘ SEEMS LIKE Morrissey himself gives up the songs half-way through when he stops the vocal and uses up the rest of the needletime with yodelling . ’ |