Example sentences of "[adv] i gave [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually I gave up hope of ever seeing my Mom again , and stealing a penny from beneath a milk bottle , bought a platform ticket and stowed away in the goods wagon of a train bound — I thought — for Sheffield and my beloved Grandfather . |
| 2 | Eventually I gave in and accepted it . |
| 3 | Eventually I gave in , just as both of us knew I would . |
| 4 | So I gave up my quest . |
| 5 | So I gave up the production of all but ‘ Leicester Square to Broadway ’ and began to wonder if I would not be happier producing shows for the BBC in London or in another country — perhaps China . |
| 6 | I got so bad I could n't do it so I gave up . |
| 7 | So I gave up on the idea of girls until I was about fifteen , when I suppose my hormones calmed down a bit . |
| 8 | So I gave up . |
| 9 | So I gave up . |
| 10 | I keep doing it wrong so I gave up and I 'm just covering it with purple . |
| 11 | When afros came in I gave up . |
| 12 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 13 | After giving your letter to my ‘ bonne ’ yesterday I gave up the fight and retired in good order to bed , where I am still . |
| 14 | And then there were the the dose was reduced and then I had to come off them altogether and after twenty nine years of dieting unsuccessfully I gave up dieting and I have n't put on any weight since I gave up dieting ! |
| 15 | But I did n't give up , I went in for another and I came third again , and then I gave up , so that was the end of that . |
| 16 | ‘ I started making hats when I gave up my job and needed something to do . |
| 17 | I had er put a promotion together with a few travel agents in Scotland where I gave out holiday spending money . |