Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | What kind of ‘ authority ’ will you be representing and have you given enough thought to conveying it in a non-threatening way ? |
| 18 | What made you give up education ? |
| 19 | ‘ Why did you give up Formula One ? ’ she enquired . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When you gave up painting , did you believe that painting was dead ? |
| 24 | ( 3,500 calories is equal to 1lb of fat — 1lb every week that you would not have to lose if you gave up sugar . ) |
| 25 | You gave out emanations of virtue and vice at once , at school and at home respectively ; you were therefore a deceiver , and so were bad in truth . |
| 26 | She gave up Giorgio in return for custody of the girl . |
| 27 | ‘ The biggest mystery is why she gave up photography , at which she showed such flair , in 1923 , ’ says Sue . |
| 28 | Authorative first crime novel from a woman so obsessed with violent crime that she gave up crime reporting and got a job in the morgue |
| 29 | A whole battery of measures was tried in an attempt to get them to give up cigarettes . |
| 30 | But when you loved it , did n't you I mean I know I did when I was a young person first drinking erm I definitely had the feeling that if I was drinking to excess I was n't doing the right thing , whereas the impression we give in Oxford that drinking to the excess is perfectly acceptable behaviour . |