Example sentences of "gave [pron] up [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave himself up to police later that night and said he had drunk two cans of lager . |
| 2 | He later gave himself up to police . |
| 3 | A four-hour siege has ended peacefully after an armed man gave himself up to police . |
| 4 | The next day he gave himself up to police . |
| 5 | Shields , of Carnac Crescent , Inverness , was said to have felt so guilty that he gave himself up to police after selling some of the haul to pay for drink . |
| 6 | AN ARMED miner gave himself up to police yesterday after a nine-hour underground protest over planned pit closures . |
| 7 | Angel Cabrera Batista , a former activist of the Movement for the Self-determination and Independence of the Canaries Archipelago ( Movimiento para la Autodeterminación y la Independencia del Archipiélago Canario — MPAIAC ) gave himself up on Aug. 13 in Las Palmas after 13 years in hiding . |
| 8 | Luckily he had no ammunition for the rifle and gave himself up after Omar , who had caught up with us , put two more shots over his head . |
| 9 | But she gave herself up to police and told them her real motive was to win attention for emotional problems . |
| 10 | Nanny in Peking murdered three-year-old in her care to avenge repeated rapes by the boy 's father , then gave herself up to police . |
| 11 | Gave it up for ordination training at Salisbury . |
| 12 | His parents were indignant when they discovered about it and he gave it up through respect for their views . |
| 13 | Two Palestinians were shot dead in clashes with the Israeli army in the occupied territories yesterday as wanted Arabs gave themselves up for fear of being shot by undercover squads . |
| 14 | I abandoned France and her rulers when they abandoned Liberty , gave themselves up to tyranny , and endeavoured to enslave the world . ’ |
| 15 | Meanwhile , however , the rich followed their king 's dictum ‘ Après moi , le déluge ’ , and gave themselves up to pleasure — balls , the opera ( where new works by Gluck , Grétry and Piccinni were finally displacing the heroic works of Lully and Rameau , beloved of the Ancien Régime ) , gambling and hunting ; the chattering middle classes were busy discussing politics and aesthetics ; writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society with their radical ideas of universal fraternity in this ‘ Age of Enlightenment ’ ; and the poor were being told to ‘ eat cake ’ , if they had no bread . |