Example sentences of "[noun sg] finally give " in BNC.
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| 1 | With one last defiant surge of power the jeep finally gave up the ghost . |
| 2 | Her dedicated persistence finally gave a delegation of East End working women the opportunity of themselves demanding the vote from the prime minister , H. H. Asquith ( later first Earl of Oxford and Asquith ) . |
| 3 | In spite of frequent attention , the old Paxman main engines on Venturous were breaking down more and more often , until the port engine finally gave up on us during Scottish patrols the following year . |
| 4 | Caught inextricably in that cycle , with pregnancies to confuse and exacerbate the situation , Elizabeth Titford 's body finally gave up the struggle in June ; with tragic inevitability , we might be tempted to say , looking back with the advantage of hindsight . |
| 5 | When the hon. Gentleman finally gave me a straight commitment across the Dispatch Box to abolish GP fund holding , I told him that he delivered the support of the majority of GPs by doing so . |
| 6 | His own worst experience ‘ in the past year , anyway ’ involved a Friday 7pm service from Kings Cross that started late , had no buffet car , and after more stops than the Minster organ finally gave up the ghost at Doncaster . |
| 7 | The European Commission finally gave approval for the £2 billion bid to go ahead in August 1989 , having required that part of Plessey 's activities should continue under their own name . |
| 8 | The baby finally gave a feeble and pitiful squawk , quite unlike the enraged roars which McAllister had been told that her sturdy brothers had made on entering their privileged world — and which she had undoubtedly made herself — but at least he was breathing . |
| 9 | At the end of 1981 the government finally gave way , or at least a little bit . |
| 10 | The government finally gave way and , on 17 December 1908 , passed a bill which restricted the term ‘ Champagne ’ to certain named communes in the Marne and Aisne départements only . |
| 11 | After a considerable amount of doubling back , hiding in bushes and around buildings and mingling with crowds , the poor fellow finally gave us the slip and disappeared . |
| 12 | It was at the beginning of May , some weeks after he first left , that the Zoo finally gave up hope of capturing the escaped golden eagle . |
| 13 | Steam power finally gave way to electricity by the mid-1950s and in 1977 , the mill was completely gutted and re-equipped with modern machinery , much of it made locally by Simon-Barron of Gloucester . |
| 14 | They may keep this up time and time again until , with luck , the predator finally gives up the chase . |
| 15 | The Court of Appeal finally gave the " aimed at " rule its quietus in Goodfellow . |