Example sentences of "given up the [adj] [noun] " 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 | Although such heresies were far more common in America and in England than they were in Ulster , Ulster Protestants knew of these postures and could see that their own denominations were in formal organizational contact with other churches which did not move to sack ministers and theologians who had obviously given up the traditional beliefs affirmed at their ordinations . |
| 6 | He has not given up the running battle between them over the question of form , which started out with his victory on accommodation . |
| 7 | The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income . |
| 8 | Gen. Saw Maung , the Prime Minister and Chair of the ruling military State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , who was believed to be in poor mental and physical health , relinquished the post of Defence Minister on March 20 , having already given up the Foreign Affairs portfolio in September 1991 [ see p. 38440 ] . |
| 9 | erm This has a knock-on effect insofar as if they 've once given up the physical sciences , then it means that they 've given up all hopes , when they leave school , of following a , a job or a profession , of courses in further or higher education , in technological , engineering subjects . |
| 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 . |