Example sentences of "i give up the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should I give up the unequal struggle and wait until I reached the age of 16 ? |
| 2 | After giving your letter to my ‘ bonne ’ yesterday I gave up the fight and retired in good order to bed , where I am still . |
| 3 | I gave up the stiff white collars that I had worn at the advertising agency and was careful to wear plain ties ; but my suits were Burton 's at £10 a time . |
| 4 | I try to see Oreste , or used to before I gave up the torture , but all I see is a baby , fat and dimpled … ’ |
| 5 | I gave up the job there and then and headed for Brazil . |
| 6 | When Nicklaus did finally track me down he told me the bag was still mine if I wanted it , but I told him I 'd already committed myself , so I gave up the chance . |
| 7 | I gave up the idea of tea , but was able to make a washer in the afternoon with rubber from an abandoned tyre . |
| 8 | While it was charming I was not at all happy there so I gave up the grandiose life and moved over to the Peel Street YMCA . |
| 9 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
| 10 | So I gave up the production of all but ‘ Leicester Square to Broadway ’ and began to wonder if I would not be happier producing shows for the BBC in London or in another country — perhaps China . |
| 11 | I made myself eat liver — they hate liver — and I gave up the odd episode of ‘ Coronation Street ’ to read them Rudyard Kipling — with actions and funny voices . |
| 12 | ABBERLEY : I gave up the title to you . |
| 13 | Does my right hon. Friend know that I gave up the opportunity of becoming a solicitor like the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) because accountants put the losses on the right and the profits on the left ? |
| 14 | In fact in our tenement " penthouse " I once unearthed several roller-skates which I cannibalised until finally there was only one , at which point I gave up the unequal struggle on a solo skate . |
| 15 | I the car I had before I gave up the company car was a Mercedes Sports S L |
| 16 | It very nearly made me give up the entire project . |
| 17 | ‘ Everyone told me to give up the womanising at my age . ’ |