Example sentences of "give up [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he could give up smoking the Army in Sri Lanka would benefit by another one hundred and thirty dollars a month . |
| 2 | Newtown Coaches , from Reeth Place , Newton Aycliffe , was told by Durham County Council it must give up running the route from Darlington to Bishopton after complaints about the service . |
| 3 | ‘ However , many pupils give up learning a language at the end of the third year . |
| 4 | After being endlessly reassured that , ‘ it 's not the tractor , it 's how long he stays out that field ploughing , ’ we give up craving a member that could be mistaken for the Eiffel Tower . |
| 5 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 6 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 7 | He had almost given up testing the limits . |
| 8 | Many farmers had given up working the land because of low rates of return and had turned to producing more lucrative goods . |
| 9 | Incidentally a trap here is to feel guilty when you find that you have given up doing the exercises that you so fervently swore you were going to do every day . |
| 10 | Lost in his thoughts , he hardly realized that he had given up folding the pamphlets . |
| 11 | As she celebrated with champagne , emigrant Deirdre Donovan ( 30 ) revealed that she was about to give up entering the draw . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to have to give up standing the market , Ma , ’ she announced quietly . |
| 13 | ‘ If at least one young person decides to give up putting a foot into a stolen car ever again , then her son 's death will not have been in vain ; and another mother will not have to experience the heartbreak she is experiencing . |
| 14 | Since giving up playing the piano in the Soho bar , he had had a job as a receptionist and switchboard operator in a hospice in Kilburn . |
| 15 | He said you 'd been sticking your nose in where it was n't wanted , and had n't heeded warnings from your superiors about giving up finding an espionage connection with Mills ' murder . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ He gave up chasing the girls , did he ? ’ |
| 17 | At golf he was a natural , though conversely his struggles to become a tournament player were such that he nearly gave up to take a club job . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Panic was the feeling Alice had when , after several tries , she gave up attempting the Beethoven . |
| 20 | He gave up playing the field and married a year ago , to a sinewy woman called Cheryl Berkoff . |
| 21 | Look at him — throwin' his eye up your skirt — and it no time at all since he gave up wettin' the bed ! ’ |