Example sentences of "[conj] gave [pron] up " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , a husband has no other relationship that he is told to love as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her . |
| 2 | Be imitators of God , therefore , as dearly loved children , and live a life of love , just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God ( Eph. 4:3–5:2 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Husbands , love your wives , just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her ’ ( 5:25 ) . |
| 4 | Luckily he had no ammunition for the rifle and gave himself up after Omar , who had caught up with us , put two more shots over his head . |
| 5 | Following the United States invasion of Panama on Dec. 20 to remove Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega from power [ see pp. 37112-13 ] , Noriega on Jan. 3 voluntarily left the papal nunciature , where he had sought refuge , and gave himself up to the US authorities after being persuaded by the papal nuncio , Mgr José Sebastián Laboa , that asylum in a third country was not a viable option . |
| 6 | We wrote these extraordinary shows , and then I just put on a dinner-jacket , started singing and gave them up . ’ |
| 7 | The notion of asking ‘ circular questions ’ is a helpful way of developing these interactions , i.e. ‘ Mrs Smith , you had a similar experience to Mr White , how did you cope ? ’ , or ‘ You 've taken tranquillizers in the past and gave them up , what would you say to somebody like Mrs Jones ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You did n't take up a profession , you went into politics and gave them up again ? ’ |
| 9 | If you struggled with rollers and gave them up as a bad job about ten years ago , you 'll be surprised at the simplicity of the latest setting appliances . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , however , the rich followed their king 's dictum ‘ Après moi , le déluge ’ , and gave themselves up to pleasure — balls , the opera ( where new works by Gluck , Grétry and Piccinni were finally displacing the heroic works of Lully and Rameau , beloved of the Ancien Régime ) , gambling and hunting ; the chattering middle classes were busy discussing politics and aesthetics ; writers such as Voltaire and Diderot were chipping away at the foundations of society with their radical ideas of universal fraternity in this ‘ Age of Enlightenment ’ ; and the poor were being told to ‘ eat cake ’ , if they had no bread . |
| 11 | Last night , four Georgian soldiers crossed the Tblisi lines , found their way through a minefield , and gave themselves up to a British journalist , Dicky Bowden . |
| 12 | He said the men made Mrs Kennedy phone Ulster Television and ask for cameras but then agreed to speak to a priest and gave themselves up . |
| 13 | Now though she stifled that feeling and gave herself up to the joy of being in his arms and hearing how long and how deeply he had loved her . |
| 14 | She loved listening to the well-known tunes , and gave herself up to the beauty of the music . |
| 15 | Claudia closed her eyes and gave herself up to sheer sensation . |
| 16 | Her hands stole up his chest , then to his shoulders , and finally she clasped them behind his neck and gave herself up to the pleasure of the kiss . |
| 17 | Having , however , decided upon that course , Fabia felt yet more light-headed , and gave herself up to the pleasure of her walk with Ven . |
| 18 | The feel of him inside her spread warmth through every part of her until her body relaxed completely and gave itself up to the purest pleasure . |
| 19 | She worked as a journalist on McClure 's magazine , and gave it up to write . |
| 20 | ‘ He became … unwell and gave it up , the stage . |
| 21 | She caught the ring at last between her teeth and he tickled her until she laughed and gave it up . |
| 22 | The two men ran off but gave themselves up next day . |
| 23 | After the ruling Wolf was given 14 days to appeal but gave himself up to German police at the Austrian border on Sept. 24 . |
| 24 | He took her to a house in Gloucester but gave himself up after police surrounded the property . |
| 25 | Tory councillors attempted a similar move 18 months ago , but gave it up after a panel reported that any reorganisation would cause 10 years of disruption . |
| 26 | He started his own practice in the northern provincial capital of Tripoli two years later , but gave it up when he entered Parliament . |
| 27 | She said her name was Liz , she was a friend of the family , and she had done some nursing once , a long time ago , but gave it up to get married . |
| 28 | He was a taxi driver in Newton Aycliffe for two years but gave it up as it was ‘ soul-destroying ’ . |