Example sentences of "she gave up " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave up and rode on . |
| 2 | Plagued with illness after working with glass fibre , she gave up carving to work with other media for casting into bronze . |
| 3 | After a lifetime of analysing herself and other people , she gave up . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | It did not make sense , so she gave up thinking about it . |
| 6 | She gave up , and turned to him . |
| 7 | She had to leave her room , her furniture : that 's why she gave up . ’ |
| 8 | As soon as she gave up dancing in the line to supervise the school , her nubile appearance became plump as she enjoyed dining well , a pleasure shared with John where the plumpness developed into fatness . |
| 9 | Moira McVitie is fairly putting on the beef since she gave up the teaching when wee Scott was born . |
| 10 | Putting the ‘ corpse ’ down , she gave up and was gazing sadly at the small body when , about two minutes after its ‘ death ’ , it suddenly took a few very deep breaths and started to move about . |
| 11 | Alcohol made these symptoms worse , she noticed , so she gave up drinking at the age of 20 . |
| 12 | With her mother 's reluctant approval , she gave up her easy life ashore and went to sea , a career she was to follow for almost 50 years and which was to bring her lasting fame . |
| 13 | Despite receiving a lot of help she gave up looking after the child , asking her mother-in-law to do so with increasing frequency . |
| 14 | She gave up trying to keep her distance . |
| 15 | Eventually she gave up and decided to keep pigs instead . |
| 16 | As she re-owned these characteristics in herself , she gave up smoking with ease . |
| 17 | Debbie 's lawyer , John Christiansen , said she can claim half their assets , because she gave up a promising tennis career for Fred 's sake . |
| 18 | After several tries she gave up and wept a pool of panicky , frustrated tears . |
| 19 | Mrs Tremayne would try to persuade her to go into Penzance with her , but after a while she gave up . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | When she gave up modelling for religion , Matisse was distraught . |
| 22 | Ever since she gave up full-time employment where everyone touched their cap to her , she 's found the loss of identity difficult to cope with . |
| 23 | An adult , presumably the female , came close inshore , followed by two young ones , and she seemed to be teaching them to fish , but after a few splashing sallies with no success she gave up , and dived away . |
| 24 | Although she gave up this job eight years ago , she has a lasting identification with it . |
| 25 | Panic was the feeling Alice had when , after several tries , she gave up attempting the Beethoven . |
| 26 | Then she gave up trying to scrape them away and stood there weakly , motionless with horror . |
| 27 | She gave up trying to justify herself . |
| 28 | She gave up Giorgio in return for custody of the girl . |
| 29 | ‘ She gave up her flat . |
| 30 | So she gave up , and sat between the vines in the hot sun , alternately sleeping and working her way through the dusty volumes of Peregrine Pickle , bound in crimson and gold leather , with real bookworms making agitated forays from their dark crannies into the heat and light across the extraordinary scenes where Smollett 's elderly ladies retained their urine indefinitely to put out putative fires , or sweetened their foul breaths with violet cachous to deceive desired young lovers . |