Example sentences of "i give [adv prt] [noun] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ There have been times since it ended when I gave up hope of ever eating food like this again . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I gave up thoughts of university when I was offered a trainee manager post . ’ |
| 6 | I gave up men after the last time . |