But the ground was too hard, so the work had been abandoned.

If work had not already been abandoned, it no doubt was at that point.

Soon after this he seems to have abandoned his work on the opera.

During a final test before a Corporation committee, it caught fire and work was abandoned.

But toward the end of 2004, rising violence led nearly all the teams to abandon their work.

Pam is usually happy to abandon her work if asked to do something else by Jim.

The feeling was so oppressive that he abandoned his work and left the house for a walk.

When his music career took off, he abandoned undergraduate work at Columbia.

Iran had long insisted that it abandoned work on the project three years ago.

Unfortunately I've abandoned work on the project for the time being.