Example sentences of "[pers pn] gave up [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Panic was the feeling Alice had when , after several tries , she gave up attempting the Beethoven . |
2 | ‘ He gave up chasing the girls , did he ? ’ |
3 | He gave up playing the field and married a year ago , to a sinewy woman called Cheryl Berkoff . |
4 | Look at him — throwin' his eye up your skirt — and it no time at all since he gave up wettin' the bed ! ’ |
5 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |