Example sentences of "[vb past] give [adv] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a hippie when hippiedom was in fashion : he grew his hair long and then ( when people began to give up their seats to him on buses , under the impression that he was a pregnant girl ) he grew a straggly beard as a declaration of sex . |
| 2 | ‘ When it came down to it , ’ Larry said , ‘ they decided to give up their 167 years of independence and join us — to become a part of the franchise we want to build in Massachusetts . ’ |
| 3 | They did give up their own time to come along and we appreciate that . ’ |
| 4 | Despite this somewhat unstable basis the Company did quite well until 1630 when trade was dislocated by a famine in Gujerat , and in the next few years its legal position was undermined because Charles I allowed the Courteen family — whose interests in the West Indies had suffered because he had given away their rights in certain islands inadvertently — to trade with India without any regard for the Company 's charter . |
| 5 | This survey revealed that 11 per cent of carers had given up their job to care . |
| 6 | All her life men had given up their seats to her , at point-to-points and tennis matches , their window seats in aircraft , their centrally positioned armchairs in balconies overlooking royal routes . |
| 7 | The roses had given up their annual struggle to keep things cheerful and now hemmed in Mr Rowse 's path with thorns . |
| 8 | The primarily Scottish Nova Scotia Company had established itself on the Atlantic seacoast north of Maine and the Canada Company had in 1628 captured the recently established French base at Quebec , but both of them had to give up their territory when peace was made with France in 1632 , and they faded into financial oblivion . |
| 9 | Rome emerged as the greatest power in Italy when the Latins , for fear of the Celts , had to give up their independence about 350 B.C. The new kingdom of Macedonia under the firm hand of Antigonus Gonatas was the direct outcome of the Celtic invasion of Macedonia and Greece . |
| 10 | What this meant in practical terms was that the hunters were non-reproductive , and presumably in order to become reproductive had to give up their youthful way of life and return to the traditional mode of subsistence . |
| 11 | If they were freemen , they had to give up their right to graze in Port Meadow , because erm the hay was to be grown there , to be promised to His Majesty . |
| 12 | The Poles , under her leadership , broke off the 1902 unity talks partly because the Russians refused to give up their guarantee of the right of national self-determination for the subordinate peoples of the empire . |