Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] give [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had gunpowder and very sophisticated engineering devices well before the west , but one can document the fact that the Chinese gave up science , rather dramatically , erm in subsequent centuries , simply because they lost faith that there was any underlying order in nature to be discovered , that it was their background religion and philosophy which led them to give up the idea of unravelling the structure of the universe . |
| 2 | It very nearly made me give up the entire project . |
| 3 | ‘ My brother is but an earl , and yet you expect us to give up a king in exchange . |
| 4 | Quite often they persuade them to give up the hostages . |
| 5 | ‘ Everyone told me to give up the womanising at my age . ’ |
| 6 | She and Jim talked together secretly about leaving the house and going off to somewhere ‘ more committed ’ , but Phoebe could not bring herself to give up the only home she knew of , could not bring herself to choose absolutely Jim 's commitments over the women 's commitments . |
| 7 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 8 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 9 | " Princes cede towns , even provinces , but all the ability of the most adroit negotiators can not decide them to give up a rank which they believe to be their right " . |
| 10 | The Bosnian Serbs under Karadzic are against the plan drawn up by mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen because it demands they give up a third of the territory they control and proposes dividing Bosnia into ten ethnic cantons . |
| 11 | When Kemalpasazade presented himself to Hacihasanzade and requested that he be appointed to the Taslik ( Ali Bey ) medrese in Edirne which was then vacant , Hacihasanzade urged him to give up the thought of receiving a medrese and to accept an appointment to a kadilik instead . |
| 12 | Once in , it seemed nothing , absolutely nothing , could make her give up the job she loved . |
| 13 | His quest for adventure led him to give up the business and sail around the world with a friend in 1980 — but disaster struck . |
| 14 | In fact in our tenement " penthouse " I once unearthed several roller-skates which I cannibalised until finally there was only one , at which point I gave up the unequal struggle on a solo skate . |
| 15 | ‘ Princes will cede towns , even provinces , but all the ability of the most adroit negotiators can not persuade them to give up a rank to which they believe themselves entitled . ’ |
| 16 | After a while , he said , ‘ Did you give up the job on the Council , then ? ’ |
| 17 | How much help did he give in the house ? |
| 18 | His injuries forced him to give up the coveted mount on Cool Ground . |
| 19 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |
| 20 | There was a receipt showing that after lack of money forced him to give up the flat , in 1989 , he bought a luxury caravan . |
| 21 | Persistent ill health induced him to give up the surveyorship at Christ 's Hospital in January 1816 and that of the Bethlehem Hospital the following year . |