Example sentences of "had [verb] up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend had plucked up courage to ask the Sisters of Mercy for food and the Sisters insisted on visiting the family , where they found women making matchboxes in a house infected with smallpox . |
| 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 | We had given up hope , then suddenly there you were , a little stranger … ’ |
| 5 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 6 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 7 | She said : ‘ We had given up hope and by the time the precinct opened again we had all gone home . ’ |
| 8 | One afternoon , after she had given up hope , stirring aïoli on the doorstep , Frederica heard the crunch of wheels on stones and saw the motorbike winding down the cliff with its two insect-heads swaying in harmony above it . |
| 9 | Finally , when many had given up hope and the liner was nearing Europe , the Belgian government announced that it would admit 200 of the passengers . |
| 10 | Mrs Burrows nursed Betty through a dangerous illness when the doctor had given up hope on her . |
| 11 | Joshua Morris had given up hope of ever reaching the promised land . |
| 12 | If anyone had given up hope in life , it was I. ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Two years earlier Jones had given up work as a hod carrier when Wimbledon signed him from Wealdstone for £10,000 . |
| 15 | Within a month he had given up frustration and made his Christmas presents instead . |
| 16 | Leonard had given up architecture to help with the business . |
| 17 | She had given up meat . |
| 18 | When he began writing again , he had given up realism for allegory about the conflict between , among other things , science and religion . |
| 19 | Back at home with their baby he was quick to be the one to change the nappies and administer the bottle feed once Liddie had given up breastfeeding . |
| 20 | By recording body temperatures throughout the day of groups of well-adjusted shiftworkers , intolerant shiftworkers , and day-workers who had given up shiftwork because they could not tolerate it , Reinberg has demonstrated that it is indeed the best-adjusted group whose circadian rhythm was most immutable . |
| 21 | Father had given up tobacco and alcohol to send me £2 15s ( Pounds 2.75 ) a week to make ends meet . |
| 22 | In Place 's pocket it had picked up fluff and minute scraps of human skin and hair . |
| 23 | On Jan. 13 , 1990 , the Treasurer , Paul Keating , announced a first relaxation of the restrictive monetary policy , which had pushed up interest rates to 18 per cent for mortgages and at least 20 per cent for other borrowing . |
| 24 | Not a servant-girl ; not even a slave , though the enquiries themselves had stirred up panic . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Apart from these particular initiatives there was a general enthusiasm for the way in which fundholding had opened up communication with hospital colleagues . |
| 28 | 1.3.3 In the wider community there was praise in the Gunn Report for the way in which the modules had opened up training pathways to satisfy employment needs in Leisure and Recreation . |
| 29 | Working with Thirkell , Pilger had drawn up sample pages of a new design , using gobbledegook text except for the headlines . |
| 30 | 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 . |