Example sentences of "have not given [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes .
2 At this stage , Browns Lane has not given up hope of getting rear seats into the convertible , but it is proving a hard task , and it is probably that only the coupe will be a two-plus-two .
3 Certainly Ferguson has not given up the ghost of trying to land the Championship .
4 He has not given up on health care .
5 He has not given up the running battle between them over the question of form , which started out with his victory on accommodation .
6 But Mr Kelly has not given up hope .
7 Police in the Irish Republic have been alerted but the RUC has not given up hope of finding the chestnut thoroughbred which romped to victory in the all-Ireland derby two years ago and up to 100 other races .
8 He has not given up hope that he can recover in time , saying : ‘ I 've not ruled myself out of it yet I 'm just looking forward and hoping I can be out there . ’
9 GPU has n't given up the courtroom entirely .
10 The Galway International winner has n't given up hope of bidding yet again for one of the few big Irish rallies to elude him but describes his chances of being on the start line on Good Friday as ‘ remote ’ .
11 Harry has n't given up totally I mean he has n't
12 He has n't given up the practice but he 's , he 's still a partner and he does a large weekend duty for us all
13 ‘ So he has n't given in , ’ he said .
14 After all , she had not given up any of her friends for him .
15 His thick hair was greying but he had not given up on red baseball shoes , sleeveless T-shirts or what he called his ‘ cosmopolitan Lancashire accent , half scouse , half Lancashire ’ .
16 I treated myself to a night in the Ceilidh Place ; I had not given up the habit of including the dangly earrings and the flowery trousers in the rucksack .
17 The Titfords , it seemed , had not given up the Miscellaneous Repos business for good : an unmarried Scottish lady in her sixties , Jessie Grieve , was staying with them as a lodger ; what little she may have paid in rent would have been very useful , no doubt , as a means of eking out the family income .
18 Even then , Sarah had not given up on her marriage .
19 He had not given up hope of reshaping it along the lines he had already supported in the abortive Fouchet Plan .
20 She had a sneaking suspicion that she knew why the men had not given up their seats .
21 The early Earth-people had not given up on anything ; they had conquered and explored and invented and they had made a marvellous and memorable world .
22 Heaven send they had not given up on her !
23 He had not given in — nor had the Commission — as far as the text itself was concerned , but the ‘ Explanatory Note ’ interpreted the text in favour of papal authority .
24 I had n't given up , but that was an ever-present temptation which had to be fought .
25 ‘ I wish I had n't given up , ’ Alison was saying , ‘ it was just lack of courage . ’
26 He did n't make it to the course on the next day , was sacked , and always maintained that if he had n't given up the drink for those ten days or so and ‘ dried out ’ he would not have got so drunk , would have been on the course at the appointed time , would not have lost his job , and would have have carried for yet another Open Champion .
27 When she threw a look over her shoulder , however , he had n't given up at all , but was prowling towards her with a bemused smile on his face .
28 She so obviously had n't given up stuffing herself with Salmon 's cream buns .
29 She had been on the verge of hysteria then ; add to that a day of travelling , with him pushing Chalon as fast as the horse could go carrying a double weight , plus the previous day 's tensions , and it was a wonder she had n't given in to it .
30 For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse .
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