Example sentences of "had [verb] up [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Burrows nursed Betty through a dangerous illness when the doctor had given up hope on her . |
| 2 | I had given up hope of a reply when , after two months and three days , a letter came which began , ‘ We find your proposals perfectly feasible … ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ But it made a difficult situation impossible , caused distress to her and her husband and sounded the death knell on the marriage which until then , although in difficulties , neither of them had given up hope of saving . ’ |
| 4 | Joshua Morris had given up hope of ever reaching the promised land . |
| 5 | However , this doe snot apply so much to our other son , Robert , who is a private music teacher in Glasgow , so we see quite a lot of him and his wife and their baby son , who arrived just over a year ago , when we had given up hope of any more grandchildren . |
| 6 | If anyone had given up hope in life , it was I. ’ |
| 7 | Two years earlier Jones had given up work as a hod carrier when Wimbledon signed him from Wealdstone for £10,000 . |
| 8 | When he began writing again , he had given up realism for allegory about the conflict between , among other things , science and religion . |
| 9 | He backed it not just because he was convinced by Rueff and his advisers that it would reduce inflation and revitalize the economy through the stimulus of competition , but because he was attracted by its theatrical elements — the symbolism of a new franc to mark a new political order , the grand gesture of carrying out commitments to Europe that the Fourth Republic had given up hopes of honouring , the rhetoric of a coherent plan of renovation as opposed to a collection of policies . |
| 10 | It had conjured up visions of arcane Celtic stews bubbling mysteriously in metal vessels , and bitter rowan-beer strengthened by the bodies of songbirds . |
| 11 | Orders had pushed up men on top of men and set up a living wall against the monstrous German avalanche . ’ |
| 12 | It had scooped up armfuls of holiday bookings following the the collapse of Harry Goodman 's ILG group , which had taken with it one of Airtours ' biggest rivals , Intasun . |
| 13 | Much time is spent by teacher-librarians in secondary schools in giving pupils busy introductions to reference books and library catalogues , and we saw in Chapter 3 how tutor-librarians in technical institutions along Hertfordshire lines had built up programmes of instruction in all aspects of information-seeking . |
| 14 | In the late eighteenth century , John and William Hunter had built up collections of anatomical specimens for teaching purposes ; the Hunterian Collection in London became one of the sights not to be missed by the intellectual tourist in the early Victorian period , when Richard Owen was in charge of it . |
| 15 | The fact was , that he made the journey ; shabby and penniless , he had to look up addresses of kinsfolk in English towns ; he had been robbed by con-men on board the ship , for Dad was a simple , trusting person , one might say , naive . |
| 16 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 17 | As this demonstrated , the defection of Warwick had opened up gaps in the king 's authority and Gloucester was again an immediate beneficiary . |
| 18 | As this demonstrated , the defection of Warwick had opened up gaps in the king 's authority and Gloucester was again an immediate beneficiary . |
| 19 | The defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo on 18 June 1815 had opened up travel on the Continent , and Sewell , fully realising that his visits were cursory , seems nevertheless to have enjoyed them . |
| 20 | Apart from these particular initiatives there was a general enthusiasm for the way in which fundholding had opened up communication with hospital colleagues . |
| 21 | Prior to the establishment of the Federation Cup by the ILTF ( now the ITF ) in 1962 , the former US player , Margaret du Pont , together with former Australian pro , Thelma Coyne Long and supported by the USTA , had drawn up plans for their own women 's international team competition and had even offered to donate a cup for the event . |
| 22 | Deadwood prospered and Costner was befriended by locals until they discovered he had drawn up plans for an 800-room hotel and conference centre nearby . |
| 23 | Reports in early July said that the USA had drawn up plans for closer monitoring of international sanctions against Iraq following Jordan 's alleged violation of the trade embargo . |
| 24 | Mary Alston , one of the mainstays of the women 's union in the 1920s , had to care during this time for a sick sister , who was in and out of a nursing home ; much later , in the 1940s , she had to give up work for a while to care for her mother . |
| 25 | One nurse in the study told how she had to give up training after being branded a trouble-maker for complaining about a male nurse who continually groped her . |
| 26 | The funding money had to be matched pound for pound by other backers ; the people who believed in the paper had to put up £5,000 of their own money between them ; and the paper had to have a controlling group to protect it from an outside takeover which might change the political line . |
| 27 | You were n't supposed to stick anything on the walls , but Jamila had pinned up poems by Christina Rossetti , Plath , Shelley and other vegetarians , which she copied out of library books and read when she stretched her legs by taking a few steps around the tiny room . |
| 28 | Almost all had brought up children of their own and 80 per cent had had voluntary experience in schools . |
| 29 | His vehement denial that God 's favor could be earned through the sacraments , or bought by donations to an often grasping priesthood , had set up vibrations through Christendom , eventually winning him the protection of lay powers having a vested interest in a deflation of the papacy . |
| 30 | The other groups had set up camp on the far side , waiting for a few clear days and the worst of the snow to melt . |