Example sentences of "given up [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had given up counting the number of marriage proposals she had turned down over the years . |
| 2 | He had long since given up reading the tabloids . |
| 3 | He had almost given up testing the limits . |
| 4 | Many farmers had given up working the land because of low rates of return and had turned to producing more lucrative goods . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Lost in his thoughts , he hardly realized that he had given up folding the pamphlets . |