Example sentences of "give [adv prt] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's not who 's gon na give up Queen of England anyway ? |
| 2 | The approved scheme will give up control of our only major asset — 66 Portland Place . |
| 3 | According to Soviet sources , however , the US side had softened its previous position that Najibullah would have to be removed from power before elections could be held , and was now considering a compromise under which he would remain President but would give up control of the military , the security police and the media to non-partisan bodies . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ If we deal with it ourselves we could only give out punishment of 28 days ’ loss of remission . ’ |
| 5 | Yet if he has watched Eastern Europe closely he will have seen that , however the transition begins , be it by round table , coalition government or free election , once Communists give up part of their power they quickly end up losing it all . |
| 6 | My second is never give up hope of eventual restitution . |
| 7 | These have given up part of their holdings to provide GSR with its shareholding . |
| 8 | Orrell , who have not yet given up hope of winning the Courage League Championship despite last week 's narrow defeat by Wasps , will have Shaun Gallagher back in the line-up for Monday 's fixture at Harlequins . |
| 9 | In any event , and this is the real answer , Bismarck had not yet given up hope of bringing his scheme to a successful conclusion and even though it seemed difficult to envisage just how this could be done , he waited for his moment . |
| 10 | 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 … ’ . |
| 11 | At this stage , Browns Lane has not given up hope of getting rear seats into the convertible , but it is proving a hard task , and it is probably that only the coupe will be a two-plus-two . |
| 12 | After two years of marriage , they appear to have given up hope of having a child of their own and have filed adoption papers in Palm Beach , Florida . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | She had married late , at a time she had almost given up hope of finding a husband . |
| 15 | She sensed that Edna had long given up hope of Celia herself having any children . |
| 16 | He had almost given up hope of meeting Liza on the beach and was considering whether he would , after all , call at Four Winds , despite Eleanor 's warnings , when , to his incredulous delight , on the fifth day of his visit , he saw a different figure scrambling down the cliff followed by a little girl . |
| 17 | United have not given up hope of signing the England international despite having a formally faxed £3.5 million offer for the striker thrown in the bin by Sheffield Wednesday last Friday , after a verbal offer had been refused the previous week . |
| 18 | IPSWICH Witches have not given up hope of 23-year-old Pole Miroslaw Kowalik riding in tomorrow 's Star of Anglia meeting at Foxhall Stadium ( writes Elvin King ) . |
| 19 | Having given up hope of a career , they have doubts about the future and support themselves by working in ‘ low pay , low prestige , low benefit jobs in the service industry ’ or ‘ McJobs ’ . |
| 20 | In 1095 , Anselm had not yet given up hope of working amicably with the king . |
| 21 | He had not given up hope of reshaping it along the lines he had already supported in the abortive Fouchet Plan . |
| 22 | The Galway International winner has n't given up hope of bidding yet again for one of the few big Irish rallies to elude him but describes his chances of being on the start line on Good Friday as ‘ remote ’ . |
| 23 | Joshua Morris had given up hope of ever reaching the promised land . |
| 24 | Paul 's family in Swindon have given up hope of an early release . |
| 25 | But he revealed today he 'd never given up hope of signing the defender turned striker despite the breakdown of the original negotiations two months ago . |
| 26 | ‘ I have given up hope of racing in the first round at Snetterton , later this month , ’ he admitted . |
| 27 | Police in the Irish Republic have been alerted but the RUC has not given up hope of finding the chestnut thoroughbred which romped to victory in the all-Ireland derby two years ago and up to 100 other races . |
| 28 | Although the buoyant Lewis camp have not given up hope of staging the Holyfield fight here , they estimate that it would cost them a massive £17.5m purse to do it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Governor has effectively given up control of the Bermudian police to the local government , though he still retains the right to be consulted . |