Example sentences of "his [noun sg] have give [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 Evangelically he strove , even if his Archdeacon had given up .
2 His wife has given up work as a secretary to stay at home with their three young children , yet the law does not allow him to take up her full tax allowance .
3 He was disappointed , too , that his father had given up artistic ideals in the pursuit of money .
4 His father-in-law had given up trying to explain to him the different cuts of meat .
5 Stair , who usually ignored Neil since his brother had given up his privileged life and become an East End doctor , occasionally felt that he had some sort of duty to him ; he was , after all , his heir .
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