Example sentences of "gave up " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fénéon , like other excellent critics , was a valued friend of artists , and so he remained all his life even though he gave up writing criticism after a decade of working on the Revue blanche from 1893 to 1903 . |
| 2 | Well yes , but let me say that I gave up going to auditions well before I became well known through The History Man , on television . |
| 3 | I gave up because I felt insulted . |
| 4 | Got out paper and pencil to try and think through the implications of what he had just seen , then gave up and started off home . |
| 5 | Sergeant Bramble and Constable Quince very quickly gave up trying to understand what it was that the experts were looking for . |
| 6 | Brooklyn born , he gave up academia in the 70 's to work in theatre and write plays . |
| 7 | Don even gave up his Saturday . |
| 8 | We gave up on them . ’ |
| 9 | Olive gave up . |
| 10 | he never gave up on the court and was respected as a fantastic competitor . |
| 11 | I tried to arrange guides on the drum sander but quickly gave up . |
| 12 | And while BR gave up carrying more categories of goods and our daily newspapers overnight , the overall freight picture again improved to a greater extent than most people forecast . |
| 13 | So the Southern lost its lines west of Salisbury to the Western , the Western gave up its lines in the West Midlands to the London Midland , the Eastern surrendered its access to Manchester , and the London Midland gave up to the Eastern and North Eastern its Yorkshire lines . |
| 14 | So the Southern lost its lines west of Salisbury to the Western , the Western gave up its lines in the West Midlands to the London Midland , the Eastern surrendered its access to Manchester , and the London Midland gave up to the Eastern and North Eastern its Yorkshire lines . |
| 15 | The London Midland Region also gave up with its older AC electric locomotives , first its troublesome contractor-built Classes 82 , 83 and 84 , and then with new designs coming along , Classes 81 and 85 were into their last days . |
| 16 | Recently , Steve gave up his joinery business to set up a small security firm , hoping for more time to devote to the much-needed rescue . |
| 17 | Timman won a pawn , then Speelman gave up a second one to create counterplay . |
| 18 | Surprised in the opening by a new idea from Timman , he lost one pawn , then gave up another in order to create activity . |
| 19 | A member of the Hillingdon side which won six successive English League titles between 1980-85 , Tennant , a centre net player , gave up the game after Hillingdon disbanded following their capture of the League title in 1985 . |
| 20 | The person preparing to slam the door is Walter ( charming Gregory Floy ) , a landscape gardener who gave up his job to look after his GP wife Vivien ( Morag Hood ) and their ( inevitably ) stripped-floor , stripped-pine flat . |
| 21 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 22 | After he gave up the booze at Christmas 1977 — for good - he gave us his splendid Brian which is as clever and well-judged a piece of comic acting as you 'll see . |
| 23 | In London , the pound gave up early gains to end unchanged at DM3.0335 and it closed at $1.6080 , 0.22 cents weaker . |
| 24 | Neither horse will have the benefit of their usual riding partners as Cumani 's stable-jockey , Ray Cochrane , last night gave up his weekend rides as he was in pain from the shoulder injury sustained in the Doncaster pile-up three weeks ago . |
| 25 | It finished ( as a bowler ) the former Derbyshire player , Fred Swarbrook , who gave up the unequal struggle when , peering frantically around to see where a delivery had gone , he found out only when the ball dropped out of the stratosphere and hit him on top of the head . |
| 26 | He lived a very retired life ; gave up games , and took exercise by occasional short sharp runs ; and concentrated . |
| 27 | If Eliot largely renounced his interest in childhood and in anthropology during the few years that followed , he gave up neither entirely . |
| 28 | When afros came in I gave up . |
| 29 | What do you mean ? she said At that point I gave up . |
| 30 | Finally the men gave up , grudgingly admitted that the room was safe , and left muttering about ‘ freak accidents ’ and ‘ acts of God ’ . |