Example sentences of "given up [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now she would have given up every lingering resentment , every long and bitter hatred , to have the boy back at Adam 's banker , humbly cutting stone . |
| 2 | All right , yes , ’ knowing that she would n't be able to do it ; there were so many factors against it : the old woman along the corridor depending on her ; Charlie , who had given up a good part of his life waiting for her . |
| 3 | I had given up a good job to go there and when I came back after the adventure I had looked forward to for so long , I was very disappointed with myself . |
| 4 | I had had a whole afternoon spent upon me , been the centre of attention , cost the State a fortune and my wife had given up a whole day of precious work to be with me . |
| 5 | Ivan did not interest him , gossip did not interest him , he had given up the personal life . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've put it on the back burner , but have never given up the long-term goal of going round the world by sailboat . |
| 7 | There are occasional strips of terraced houses , whose occupants seem to have given up the unequal struggle against the noise and pollution of the ring road , and retreated to their back rooms , for the frontages are peeling and dilapidated and the curtains sag in the windows with a permanently drawn look . |
| 8 | ANNE HAD GIVEN up the rational approach , and picked a passage at random . |
| 9 | He has not given up the running battle between them over the question of form , which started out with his victory on accommodation . |
| 10 | Rita has given up the daily struggle to clear the family 's only dining table of the piles of skirts to be hemmed , the cottons , machine , and bags . |