Example sentences of "after [pron] have given [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tell you to go on with artificial respiration for ever , for long after you 've given up hope . |
| 2 | One afternoon , after she had given up hope , stirring aïoli on the doorstep , Frederica heard the crunch of wheels on stones and saw the motorbike winding down the cliff with its two insect-heads swaying in harmony above it . |
| 3 | Yes , after we had given up all intention of going there , we have arrived . |
| 4 | Critics then and now say that Nonconformity did not create a new architecture after they had given up the old seventeenth and eighteenth-century meeting house . |
| 5 | After he had given up the slave trade and was already hoping to be ordained , he was appointed tide-surveyor in the port of Liverpool with duties that included the inspection of incoming vessels . |
| 6 | Although it is impossible to think of him as a Londoner , this move began a lifelong association with the capital to which he returned every year for a few months , even after he had given up all thoughts of making it his permanent home . |