Example sentences of "give up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deer Park , which has already lost tens of millions of dollars in academic revenue sharing , will reluctantly give up a bit more . |
| 2 | Wo n't give up a point for |
| 3 | You 've got ta give up the building work . |
| 4 | We will not give up the US customer base to anyone unless it 's done in a partnership . |
| 5 | Most important of all , the cultural prohibitions on his genital urge are now fully enforced and he must give up the freedom of infantile sexual gratification for the responsibilities of adult life ; in short , he must obey the taboos against incest embodied in the elaborate kinship systems of the Australian aborigines and observe those against parricide enshrined in the totemic religion . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't mean you should give up the drugs . ’ |
| 7 | Clearly upset , the 51-year-old entrepreneur said that his group would not give up the fight . |
| 8 | Bono and U2 sometimes wonder , but do n't give up the fight . |
| 9 | Sooner or later he would be too exhausted to think straight and would give up the fight against himself . |
| 10 | The report suggested that the Bulgarian leadership did not give up the idea until Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union in 1985 . |
| 11 | But , then , we should give up the concept of " identical meanings " and accept that there can be only relative similarities of use , and hence only approximate , pragmatically testable , substitutability of certain expressions within similar contexts . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) That the King would not give up the chance of marrying Mrs Simpson . |
| 13 | Dana would n't give up the chance to shine in front of all the heads of the fashion world . |
| 14 | He did n't want that and he would n't give up the mistress either — not for three years . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , my advice to him would be , do n't give up the day job . |
| 16 | do n't give up the day job Nigel … not that he 'd want to … red five flies again at Donington Park on sunday … |
| 17 | A mind could not be read any more reliably than keys could give up the name of a killer . |
| 18 | Some would have starved rather than give up the playing . |
| 19 | ‘ You could never give up the law , could you ? ’ asked David . |
| 20 | ‘ It 'll just collapse and give up the ghost somewhere in France . |
| 21 | The leading soccer and horserace commentators , with sometimes far more difficult foreign names coming at them at full pelt out of the fog , seem to manage wordperfectly and not give up the ghost in a surfeit of sniggers . |
| 22 | In 1992 a future king renounces the wife he no longer loves but says he wo n't give up the throne . |
| 23 | That 's about it for July — if the weather is lovely do n't give up the knitting — carry the machine out in the garden and work under the shade of a tree . |
| 24 | He suffers from gout , but he wo n't give up the port , you know . |
| 25 | Wo n't give up the port . ’ |
| 26 | If this is repeated on several occasions , the government can either give up the proposal or take government time , have a short debate and then push the matter through . |
| 27 | But the Anglicans , like the Lutherans , did not suddenly give up the composition of Latin texts . |
| 28 | And people who strangle their infants , thus causing their admissions , must give up the practice thereafter . |
| 29 | She would never give up the princes . |
| 30 | Male homosexuals in a large number of cases , says Freud , do not give up the mother and find another woman as sexual object , but they identify with their mother : ‘ he transforms himself into her and now looks about for objects which can replace his ego for him and on which he can bestow such love and care as he has experienced with his mother ’ . |