Example sentences of "give up [verb] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 2 | He had almost given up testing the limits . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Lost in his thoughts , he hardly realized that he had given up folding the pamphlets . |
| 5 | ‘ He gave up chasing the girls , did he ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |