Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [pron] gave [pron] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | This MacGregor he was to be a minister , and he was a well educated man but unfortunately he 'd made a mistake when he preached his sermon so he gave it up . |
| 2 | By the time they reached a point half-way to the island the water had reached their hips so they gave it up as a bad job and began to enjoy themselves . |
| 3 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 4 | I 've always owned apartments because I was born in a tenement in Glasgow and I like flat-life. , If he has one regret it is that government never saw fit to offer him another major job as challenging as his chairmanship of British Steel when he gave it up in 1976 . |
| 5 | So in my new bedroom ( which used to be Pa 's office until he gave it up , just for me , and moved into the caravan ) , we work out a prayer together , to help me not to be led into temptation again . |
| 6 | On one occasion he is alleged to have told a bald papal legate who had just excommunicated him for refusing to abandon his mistress that he would see the legate 's hair in curlers before he gave her up . |