Example sentences of "giving up [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yields in general will tend to be higher for longer term investments , because lenders require to be compensated for giving up their money for long periods of time . |
| 2 | Founders were not allowed to take NoS jobs without giving up their place on the Trust , which determined from the beginning to act as a collective . |
| 3 | That is , the word or words of the lexia are doing more than giving up their meaning as words . |
| 4 | Mrs Chalker , who lost her seat at the general election , faced giving up her job as Minister of the Overseas Development Administration and Britain 's leading representative at the European Bank , leaving a gap in the British team but will continue in her post from the House of Lords . |
| 5 | Lady Helen Taylor , daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Kent , who is just giving up her job as a Soho art dealer , and her husband , West End art dealer Tim Taylor , have traded in their black 10-year-old Porsche sportscar for a K-registered £27,500 family-sized black Range Rover . |
| 6 | Judith 's mixed feelings about the occasion are shared by Father Martin Flatman who is giving up his position as a vicar in Oxford in protest at the move . |
| 7 | Sign he did , giving up his past at the Old Sun . |
| 8 | Simon Johnson , whose highest first-class score had been 20 , romped to a maiden half-century which included nine fours and a six before blithely giving up his wicket in the belief that , if there was much more of this , Briers would surely bring back the brisk and uncharitable Millns and Parsons . |
| 9 | Tony began 20 years ago , after giving up his job as a scientist . |
| 10 | He was staying there since giving up his flat at around the same time he had given up Crystal Daly . |
| 11 | but the young father has no intention of giving up his son to them . |
| 12 | I am giving up my throne for the woman I loathe |
| 13 | But I still had doubts about giving up my job at Lloyds insurance firm , so for another year ( they were yearly contracts then ) I was allowed to keep the job , training two nights a week and playing in the reserves . |
| 14 | ‘ But I 'm certainly not giving up my commission for some possible Winter Sports . ’ |
| 15 | One immediate result of my departure from Berkeley was my giving up my flat by the school and going back to London . |
| 16 | So I 'll just say thank you to the management of the Seraglio for allowing this conference to take place in such pleasant surroundings , and to you ladies for giving up your weekend to be here . |
| 17 | Even so , you ought to balance the relative advantages and disadvantages of giving up your employment on the one hand , and staying on , with dismissal likely , on the other . |
| 18 | Do you ever regret giving up your job as a psychiatric nurse ? |
| 19 | ‘ Of course I appreciate your giving up your time on my behalf , ’ she began stiffly , ‘ but — ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Does that mean you are giving up your seat in Parliament , Sir Marcus ? ’ asked Naughtie . |
| 21 | We never considered giving up our work with the chimps when the children were born , but it would not have been possible for us to continue without the help of the Africans — I always had two men employed to take care of the children when I went with Christophe into the forest . ’ |