Example sentences of "gave up [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . ’ ’ |
| 2 | M. duly gave up possession . |
| 3 | In consequence of the agreement , Mr. Mahmoud gave up possession to the landlord . |
| 4 | I gave up thoughts of university when I was offered a trainee manager post . ’ |
| 5 | BEN JOHNSON : Gave up poetry to run and take drugs . |
| 6 | Two whaling nations that had been among the largest , the United States and Britain , gave up whaling , and others have recently given up or are showing signs of doing so . |
| 7 | Tesco gave up 15½p to 242p on the week , even though profits for last year are expected to be £123 million up at £540 million . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ The biggest mystery is why she gave up photography , at which she showed such flair , in 1923 , ’ says Sue . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | February 20th , 1920 : It was on this date that Adolf Hitler gave up painting and became spokesman for the newly-formed Nazi Party . |
| 12 | When you gave up painting , did you believe that painting was dead ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In order to expose what appears to be a series of monstrous , incomprehensible legal blunders , Mr Mathew gave up work in 1983 . |
| 16 | I gave up work so I could practise singing and playing , and went on the dole in England . |
| 17 | A Yorkshire mill-owner 's seventieth birthday is recorded as bringing ‘ callers all day , bringing little remembrances of flowers , fruit , etc ; ’ while a Kent farm labourer , on reaching the same age after 51 years on the same farm , was given a pension from a local charity and gave up work . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On the other hand , there were those who gave up work reluctantly and would have preferred to have kept on working , but for reasons of health or lack of alternative employment chose early retirement . |
| 21 | HRP can only be given for complete tax years ( 6 April to 5 April ) , so if you simply gave up work for a few weeks in order to help out , you would be unlikely to qualify . |
| 22 | I actually gave up work while [ mother ] was in hospital … when she first had her stroke … |
| 23 | I mean he gave up work for a long time did n't he ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She gave up Giorgio in return for custody of the girl . |
| 26 | At first glance , it might seem as if Althusser himself gave up history and tried science instead . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | AN ELDERLY couple gave up £1,000 worth of golden wedding presents to help the blind . |
| 29 | ARTHUR and Kathleen Lea , of Manfield , near Darlington , gave up £1,000 worth of golden wedding anniversary presents by asking friends and relatives to donate money to help sponsor a guide dog instead . |
| 30 | 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 . |