Example sentences of "i give up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | but around 1950 I began to realise that this was n't getting me anywhere , so I gave up painting with oil paints and began instead to draw with oils . |
| 2 | When I gave up cricket , I turned to golf . |
| 3 | Despite this I had a lot of fun , until my mother replaced him with another pony that Brian could manage , and I gave up hunting . |
| 4 | Eventually I gave up hope of ever seeing my Mom again , and stealing a penny from beneath a milk bottle , bought a platform ticket and stowed away in the goods wagon of a train bound — I thought — for Sheffield and my beloved Grandfather . |
| 5 | ‘ There have been times since it ended when I gave up hope of ever eating food like this again . ’ |
| 6 | I gave up work so I could practise singing and playing , and went on the dole in England . |
| 7 | I gave up work at the salon eight weeks before Isha was born and so I had the space and time to just do the hair work that I really wanted to do . |
| 8 | At the first hearing , she had a gloomy , slit-mouthed sidekick with the worst case of acne I 've seen since I gave up computer programming , but this time he was n't there . |
| 9 | When I gave up cabaret , Roger became musical director on board the Canberra . |
| 10 | ‘ I gave up ballet because I found the artifice irksome . |
| 11 | I bought this place when I was — ’ he frowned ‘ — when I gave up motor racing . |