Example sentences of "[pron] give [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but around 1950 I began to realise that this was n't getting me anywhere , so I gave up painting with oil paints and began instead to draw with oils . |
| 2 | When I gave up cricket , I turned to golf . |
| 3 | Despite this I had a lot of fun , until my mother replaced him with another pony that Brian could manage , and I gave up hunting . |
| 4 | I gave up women because they were breaking my heart . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ There have been times since it ended when I gave up hope of ever eating food like this again . ’ |
| 7 | I gave up work so I could practise singing and playing , and went on the dole in England . |
| 8 | I gave up work at the salon eight weeks before Isha was born and so I had the space and time to just do the hair work that I really wanted to do . |
| 9 | At the first hearing , she had a gloomy , slit-mouthed sidekick with the worst case of acne I 've seen since I gave up computer programming , but this time he was n't there . |
| 10 | I gave up thoughts of university when I was offered a trainee manager post . ’ |
| 11 | I gave up men after the last time . |
| 12 | When I gave up cabaret , Roger became musical director on board the Canberra . |
| 13 | ‘ I gave up ballet because I found the artifice irksome . |
| 14 | I bought this place when I was — ’ he frowned ‘ — when I gave up motor racing . |
| 15 | As there were not enough metre sticks to go round , I gave out matchsticks to represent the fences . |
| 16 | I had er put a promotion together with a few travel agents in Scotland where I gave out holiday spending money . |
| 17 | He even finds himself giving out gardening advice to local radio operators from his car . |
| 18 | Olwen found this incredibly vulgar — she had not been impressed by the mixture of genuine antiques and large hideous brass objects which gave away Oyston 's boarding-house background . |
| 19 | At first glance , it might seem as if Althusser himself gave up history and tried science instead . |
| 20 | There are three options : A league in which eight teams play each other once or twice depending on whether ‘ home and away ’ is selection ; a cup which is an eight-team knockout ; and a season which gives both league and cup competitions . |
| 21 | Mankind has increased the acidity of rain through activities like burning fuel , which gives off oxides of carbon , sulphur and nitrogen , the most damaging being sulphur dioxide and nitrogen oxide . |
| 22 | What kind of ‘ authority ’ will you be representing and have you given enough thought to conveying it in a non-threatening way ? |
| 23 | What made you give up education ? |
| 24 | ‘ Why did you give up Formula One ? ’ she enquired . |
| 25 | But his lack of affection for her did n't lessen her love for him , nor did she give up hope that she would one day be able to make him feel genuinely fond of her . |
| 26 | People who give up cigarettes very commonly report explicit ( and guilty ) dreams about smoking in the first few weeks , even though there is every reason to believe that sleep actually becomes less disturbed on withdrawal from nicotine . |
| 27 | ‘ Not your average Flag Day collectors or the sort who give out leaflets on market day . |
| 28 | Some schemes allow you to give up part of your pension for cohabitees or other adult dependants , and this could also be worth checking on . |
| 29 | My guess is though , that if , if the age difference had been something like erm , seven or eight years , by the time your mother was asking you to give up sweets for your very much younger brother , you would probably have matured sufficiently and perhaps identified enough with your mother to see yourself playing a more kind of maternal role , as , you know the grown up sister . |
| 30 | Max Q ( astronaut-speak for maximum aerodynamic pressure ) was formed in 1987 and includes founder member ‘ Hoot Gibson ’ , who plays lead guitar alongside fellow shuttle pilots Kevin Chilton ( rhythm guitar ) , James Weatherbee ( drums ) , Pierre Thuot ( bass ) , Carl Waltz ( saxophone/vocals ) , and keyboard player Susan Helms , who gave up plans to become a professional pianist in favour of aeronautical engineering . |