Example sentences of "give [adv] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an interview given soon after the publication of his first novel , he insisted : |
| 2 | I did not just give up after one attempt . |
| 3 | His hopes of adding Wimbledon glory to his collection of eight Grand Slam titles now look more forlorn than ever , even though he insists : ‘ You can not give up after one day . ’ |
| 4 | May help especially if it has not already been given directly after the birth . |
| 5 | Experience tells us that many people who take up jogging , cycling , and other aerobic routines often sustain injuries , or simply give up after a short time . |
| 6 | I give up after an hour of civilisational water-treading , hit Store and slope off to bed . |
| 7 | Most men would have given up after that . |
| 8 | Lord Peyton has the right to stick to his guns and he 's disinclined to give in after the majority he won last time . |
| 9 | It seems to give up after that initial tug o'war , a common trait with most chub , and is soon safely in the net . |
| 10 | It is very common for new students to give up after about three months . |
| 11 | As it turned out , the police officer concerned told us that , provided the details Carol remembered under hypnosis tallied precisely with the details she had given immediately after the crime , there would be no problem . |
| 12 | The account he gave just after his release was that the threat had been that a British soldier might ‘ accidentally ’ shoot one of the women . |
| 13 | Certainly the ambition was in both cases the same : in a lecture which he gave soon after finishing The Cocktail Party he declared that he only wished to write plays " of contemporary life " . |
| 14 | I tried running but gave up after two paces , and then went from meditation to mental arithmetic , calculating the length of each step by counting them for each revolution of the wheel . |
| 15 | Niki gave up after two laps . |
| 16 | I made a mental effort to visualise his new house , to create some mind picture , but gave up after a few seconds . |
| 17 | CHART star Dr Alban trained for five years as a dentist — but gave up after a horrific teeth-pulling session . |
| 18 | He gave up after a bit and just stayed there looking at me . |
| 19 | If so , it is clear that he gave up after a short while , returned to E ( which needed a fresh set of running titles before printing could resume ) and finished it off regardless . |
| 20 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 21 | It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place . |
| 22 | And like Kim 'll be the first one to say she gave up after a few months |
| 23 | We gave up after two hours it was too cold |
| 24 | The customer gives up after a few months waiting . |
| 25 | For the sugar intestinal permeability test , an isotonic acqueous solution of cellobiose ( 5 g ) and mannitol ( 2 g ) was given orally after an overnight fast . |