Example sentences of "he give up [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deteriorating eyesight compelled him to give up painting in 1975 , but he lived to see the beginning of a major revival of his reputation . |
| 2 | When blindness compelled him to give up farming in 1966 he learned Braille and carried on with his public duties , being much in demand as a witty public speaker . |
| 3 | ( Interestingly , he gave up athletics for one year after leaving school — and the influence of teachers — because ‘ there was no one to say , ‘ go into this and I 'll help you do it . ’ ’ |
| 4 | After he gave up Marxism , and was out there all on his mental own , as it were , without fear of hell or counter-revolutionary thought , it went to his head . |
| 5 | He remained prominent in the Photographic Society , and contributed to its annual exhibitions until 1862 , when he gave up photography completely , and sold all his negatives and equipment . |
| 6 | When the father turned 65 he gave up work , and ‘ at last he found he had a son , as later on in his old age I helped him and Mother all I could . |
| 7 | I mean he gave up work for a long time did n't he ? |
| 8 | In February 1921 he gave up office and soon afterwards he accepted a peerage and retired from active politics . |
| 9 | He gave up motorcycling in 1929 when his love of cars got the better of him . |
| 10 | He gave up engineering that year and went to the United States , where he married Flora Small of New York and settled to writing . |
| 11 | He gave up farming and opened a restaurant in Glasgow but his new businesses failed after a few years and he left Scotland to live in Rugby until his death in 1937 . |
| 12 | Always a determined character , he gave up alcohol and smoking the day he pulled on his running shoes , and he quickly found that running long distances was his forte , and that it provided a challenge to fit his temperament . |
| 13 | He gave up training in 1892 , and his son Tom Cannon took over the Danebury stable . |
| 14 | I saw this piece some time ago by Richard Burton in which he was talking about what happened to him when he gave up booze . |
| 15 | Brooklyn born , he gave up academia in the 70 's to work in theatre and write plays . |
| 16 | But then he gave up concert performances to retire to his home in Texas . |
| 17 | In the 1960s he gave up practice to pursue an academic career as an architectural historian . |