Example sentences of "given [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I 've given up on that idea actually . |
| 2 | ‘ The art museums of the United States have given up on great shows with the exception of Carter Brown , and now he 's out . |
| 3 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 4 | JUST WHEN you 'd given up on Italian House , along come more chattering piano breaks and gusty female vocals to drag you back onto your feet . |
| 5 | The parcels carrying service proved unsatisfactory and was given up on 31 December 1911 . |
| 6 | His thick hair was greying but he had not given up on red baseball shoes , sleeveless T-shirts or what he called his ‘ cosmopolitan Lancashire accent , half scouse , half Lancashire ’ . |
| 7 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 8 | She was still pondering on his use of her name as the taxi drove through the dark city streets , the driver having given up on any hopes of conversation after a couple of monosyllabic and nonsensical replies from his customer . |