Example sentences of "given up the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ivan did not interest him , gossip did not interest him , he had given up the personal life . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've put it on the back burner , but have never given up the long-term goal of going round the world by sailboat . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ANNE HAD GIVEN up the rational approach , and picked a passage at random . |
| 5 | He has not given up the running battle between them over the question of form , which started out with his victory on accommodation . |
| 6 | 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 . |