Example sentences of "gave up [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They gave up every kind of luxury and frequently bathed in cold water . |
| 2 | Timman won a pawn , then Speelman gave up a second one to create counterplay . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | THE London Monarchs made the sort of World League history they could do without when they gave up a record eight turnovers in Saturday 's 13–7 defeat at Barcelona Dragons . |
| 5 | His wife gave up a £20,000-a-year job as an occupational therapist to look after their child , now aged four . |
| 6 | KATRIN DORRE , from Leipzig , who gave up a career as a medical student to become a full-time athlete , saved the blushes of the organisers of the 12th ADT London marathon when she managed to lead the field of over 25,000 across the line on Westminster Bridge yesterday . |
| 7 | He gave up a well-paid senior post at GCHQ in order to become a taxi driver but no one thought it strange . |
| 8 | Gerald Patterson and his psychologist colleagues in Oregon , USA , observing children in nursery schools , found that 80 per cent of aggressive behaviour had some positive reward or payoff for the aggressor ; for example , the victim gave up a toy , or cried , or ran away . |
| 9 | ‘ Teleworking is the future , ’ says Wickes , who gave up a three-hour daily commuter round trip to run a specialist information technology service from his home . |
| 10 | Debbie 's lawyer , John Christiansen , said she can claim half their assets , because she gave up a promising tennis career for Fred 's sake . |
| 11 | One young person gave up a holiday to America just to help us . |
| 12 | She has not worked for nine and a half years , since she gave up a clerical post in accounts with a large company to have her first child . |
| 13 | And Souness is hoping for a repeat of last season 's UEFA Cup triumph , when French club Auxerre were frightened by a hostile reception and gave up a two-goal lead . |
| 14 | She recently gave up a secretarial job to start her own jewellery-making business . |
| 15 | Maurice Fermoy became the Conservative Member of Parliament for King 's Lynn while his Scottish wife , who gave up a promising career as a concert pianist to marry , founded the King 's Lynn Festival for Arts and Music which , since its inception in 1951 , has attracted world renowned musicians such as Sir John Barbirolli and Yehudi Menuhin . |
| 16 | We must have wanted to come here : to do so , I gave up a most coveted job , that of editor in chief of American Esquire . |
| 17 | I gave up a few years ago . ’ |
| 18 | I gave up a promising career in advertising in England and came back to Barbados with him . |
| 19 | Finding teaching too confining , she gave up a post as a governess in 1895 . |
| 20 | I fell victim to the thought-rather-than-action syndrome myself a few years ago and gave up a demonstrably worthwhile job as a doctor in order to write a novel called A Paper Mask . |
| 21 | Incidentally it did not escape our notice that Colin , his wife and John Stowell all gave up a significant part of a day for our benefit . |
| 22 | It 's been a bumpy ride , but the bill to privatize British Rail is almost at the end of its long parliamentary journey but the battle is n't over yet , earlier this week hundreds of protestors from a variety of backgrounds gave up a day and travelled from the North to carry their defiant message to Transport Secretary John MacGregor . |
| 23 | Hunt , who gave up a career in medicine to be a racing driver in 1967 , was given his chance by Lord Hesketh , the British peer who ran his own motor racing team . |
| 24 | They gave up a holiday to watch Boro play away . |
| 25 | Eddie Moore , our Church Officer , gave up a week of his holiday — and raised over £1,000 for Christian Aid , from the records and stamps , professionally prepared for us by Laurie Bruce and Scott Anderson . |
| 26 | Another gesture symbolising true Christian Aid was made by Mr Moore , our dynamic Church Officer , who gave up a week of his annual holiday so as to be with us throughout . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | After giving your letter to my ‘ bonne ’ yesterday I gave up the fight and retired in good order to bed , where I am still . |