Example sentences of "given up [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 2 | I shall make an order that possession be given up two months from today 's date . |
| 3 | Fortunately , glider designers seem to have given up all-moving stabilisers in favour of a fixed tailplane and normal elevator . |
| 4 | These two changes — instrumentation and electronic treatment — suggest two points immediately : that this is music created in a recording studio using quite complex equipment and recording techniques ( the Beatles had in fact just given up live performance ) ; and that it is music for listening rather than dancing . |
| 5 | Dalgliesh remembered a surgeon once telling him that Miles Kynaston had shown promise of becoming a brilliant diagnostician , but had given up general medicine for pathology at registrar level because he could no longer bear to watch human suffering . |
| 6 | Roland had given up all thought , in any case not very realistic , of discussing the purloined letters with Blackadder . |
| 7 | ‘ If you 'd like to know the truth , I 'd given up all thought of trying to persuade you to visit Bertha . |
| 8 | Although it is impossible to think of him as a Londoner , this move began a lifelong association with the capital to which he returned every year for a few months , even after he had given up all thoughts of making it his permanent home . |
| 9 | By the 1660s , Rome had given up all thoughts of the forcible deposition of the English Protestant monarchy ; indeed , in the 1670s its cautious and reluctant response to the proposed marriage of the heir to the throne James and the Catholic noblewoman Mary of Modena threatened to block the best route for a peaceful end to the English schism , and Rome continued to offer only lukewarm support to James both before and after 1685 . |
| 10 | She had given up all idea of exercising any power over fate . |
| 11 | As well as those who have deliberately given up all idea of marriage for the sake of their Christian calling , there are others who fail to find a marriage partner and accept that situation as part of God 's plan for their life . |
| 12 | I have given up all idea now of going to Kings and shall make my way across the Island as quickly as I can making a call or two on the way . |
| 13 | She had given up all hope of ever bringing Oreste over . |
| 14 | Following the flooding of RFK Stadium , the Washington Redskins have given up all hope of making another Superbowl — but the city 's new Red Herrings are an increasingly powerful force in major league water-polo . |
| 15 | We 've waited so long , I 'd given up all hope of ever having a bairn . ’ |
| 16 | But she had given up all hope of Joss Barnet returning that evening and nothing else in the world mattered . |
| 17 | Having given up all hope of getting hold of a man for herself alone , she would be prepared to share one as the next best thing . |
| 18 | Ted had given up all hope of enlarging his holding and was concentrating his efforts on farming his existing soil , making a reasonable living from his multiplicity of vegetable crops , when a letter arrived one day explaining to him that if he still wanted to buy the adjoining land , the owners were interested in discussing the matter . |
| 19 | As early as 1524 , Henry had given up all hope of Catherine bearing another child , and by the time he became infatuated with Anne Boleyn two years later , he had already begun to convince himself that his wife 's failure to give birth to a son who survived infancy was a sign that his marriage to his brother 's widow was sinful , in that it had broken the laws concerning affinity laid down in the Old Testament Book of Leviticus ( chapter 20 : verse 21 ) . |
| 20 | The timing of the goal was a vital ingredient of this delirium , of course ( I for one had given up all hope by then ) , as was the venue ( we had n't won up there for decades ) ; but what really gave the night meaning was the anxiety and despair , year after year of it , that had gone before . |
| 21 | She 'd given up all hope of having children , you see . |
| 22 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 23 | They had given up all hope of ever moving when a two-bedroom house with a garden was found for them in Forthlin Road , Allerton last week . |
| 24 | ‘ Now I 've given up all hope ( of returning to Formula One ) . ’ |
| 25 | War heroes who served on the Russian convoys had given up all hope of receiving the award issued by the old Soviet Union . |
| 26 | Many ex-servicemen had given up all hope of ever seeing the tribute after the Ministry of Defence warned supplies could dry up following the break-up of the USSR . |
| 27 | Yes , after we had given up all intention of going there , we have arrived . |
| 28 | erm This has a knock-on effect insofar as if they 've once given up the physical sciences , then it means that they 've given up all hopes , when they leave school , of following a , a job or a profession , of courses in further or higher education , in technological , engineering subjects . |
| 29 | The government wanted to stop subsidising it by the end of 1991–92 , but has now given up that idea . |
| 30 | We have not given up that demand . |