Example sentences of "[pers pn] gave up [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 | When you gave up painting , did you believe that painting was dead ? |
| 16 | ( 3,500 calories is equal to 1lb of fat — 1lb every week that you would not have to lose if you gave up sugar . ) |
| 17 | She gave up Giorgio in return for custody of the girl . |
| 18 | ‘ The biggest mystery is why she gave up photography , at which she showed such flair , in 1923 , ’ says Sue . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | Pauline used to be keen on that sort of thing , but she 's gone off it since we gave up Italy as a holiday venue . |
| 21 | The B team are so determined they gave up holiday time and daily allowances to assemble for two days of intensive preparation this week in Cardiff . |
| 22 | For generations to come , nevertheless , most collections of this kind remained very patchy and incomplete , largely because ministers and diplomats tended to look on their papers as their personal property and to retain them when they gave up office . |
| 23 | If they gave up territories in exchange for the surrender of Aquitaine , these would have to be held feudally in dependence of the crown of France . |
| 24 | By James 's landing in mid-March the Protestants had been forced to abandon most of their strongholds and soon after his arrival they gave up Dungannon , 35 miles [ 56 km ] west of Belfast , and Coleraine , a seaport on the north coast , which succumbed to an Irish force under a French commander . |
| 25 | ( Interestingly , he gave up athletics for one year after leaving school — and the influence of teachers — because ‘ there was no one to say , ‘ go into this and I 'll help you do it . ’ ’ |
| 26 | After he gave up Marxism , and was out there all on his mental own , as it were , without fear of hell or counter-revolutionary thought , it went to his head . |
| 27 | He remained prominent in the Photographic Society , and contributed to its annual exhibitions until 1862 , when he gave up photography completely , and sold all his negatives and equipment . |
| 28 | Philip had opened the proceedings by again suggesting an exchange of conquests , but Richard opposed this , arguing that this would mean that he gave up lands , including the Quercy , which brought him an annual revenue of a thousand marks or more , in return for estates in Berry which , though they were fiefs belonging to Aquitaine , were in fact held by other lords and so were of very little direct financial benefit to him . |
| 29 | When the father turned 65 he gave up work , and ‘ at last he found he had a son , as later on in his old age I helped him and Mother all I could . |
| 30 | I mean he gave up work for a long time did n't he ? |