Example sentences of "had [verb] up [noun] " 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 | I thought you had given up drawing-rooms entirely . ’ |
| 16 | The KPNLF , which launched an attack on Saturday , four days after the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops , had given up attempts to occupy the town of Svay Cheak and the capital of Banteay Meanchey province , Sisophon . |
| 17 | Within a month he had given up frustration and made his Christmas presents instead . |
| 18 | Leonard had given up architecture to help with the business . |
| 19 | In a move reportedly designed to persuade the Soviet Union to abandon its rail-mounted mobile intercontinental missile system , the SS-24 , Bush said that the USA had given up plans to develop mobile versions of the MX and Midgetman missiles and that a programme to build the short-range attack missile ( SRAM ) had also been cancelled . |
| 20 | She had given up meat . |
| 21 | He was staying there since giving up his flat at around the same time he had given up Crystal Daly . |
| 22 | When he began writing again , he had given up realism for allegory about the conflict between , among other things , science and religion . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had given up years ago the delusion that all men were homosexual at heart , and that it was just a question of finding the key to unlock their repressed desires . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Father had given up tobacco and alcohol to send me £2 15s ( Pounds 2.75 ) a week to make ends meet . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | We had to go up heights then did n't we . |
| 29 | It had conjured up visions of arcane Celtic stews bubbling mysteriously in metal vessels , and bitter rowan-beer strengthened by the bodies of songbirds . |
| 30 | Bill had come up trumps . |