Example sentences of "give [adv] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is realized that some teachers have had to temporarily give up teaching for various reasons and the longer one is out of teaching the harder it is to build up confidence to teach again . |
| 2 | A sadness that could make her give up acting for good . |
| 3 | Solution : Give up knitting for the moment . |
| 4 | Except for one year when she lost a pound ; I think she 's only recently given up searching for it . |
| 5 | The prevailing mood is disgust ; at the pathetic inarticulacy of the great ape on a rugby field , Frank Machin , and the blocked emotions of his landlady and lover , who has given up hoping for anything since her husband 's death . |
| 6 | I have therefore given up looking for someone . ’ |
| 7 | They found that for married men who were household heads under age 45 , the proportions ‘ out of work ’ ( a wider concept than we used which included those who had given up looking for work because they did n't think any was available ) was about nine times as high in the local authority as in the occupied sector . |
| 8 | The workforce has fallen by 700,000 as people have retired or given up looking for jobs , but unemployment has risen by roughly 1.3 million , the EPI reports . |
| 9 | I sent back a tirade of bitter invective , written during a long , lonely evening when Richard was dining in college : did she think that because I had given up working for my degree I was necessarily isolated from intelligent thought ? |
| 10 | Are you prepared to give up smoking for instance , or to cut down on the amount of caffeine , alcohol , sugar and junk-food you may consume ? |
| 11 | The important decision is never to give up working for each other 's benefit . |
| 12 | The good news is that giving up smoking for the sake of the unborn baby is all that has to be done to bring an end to these needless deaths and halt the other harm suffered by these most defenceless of nonsmokers . |
| 13 | When he was voted the English League 's Player of the Year in 1973 , the Sunday Telegraph marvelled at his new maturity , and described his transformation as being ‘ like Attila The Hun giving up fighting for sculpture . ’ |
| 14 | Pesci , a bungling burglar in the movie and its upcoming sequel , gave up singing for acting 15 years ago . |
| 15 | ( Norman Mailer gave up smoking for a year and wrote not one word in that time . ) |
| 16 | In 1878 she gave up teaching for two years , following a breakdown in health . |
| 17 | When she gave up modelling for religion , Matisse was distraught . |
| 18 | He went on : ‘ I could get more money if I gave up performing for master classes but I do n't continue working for the money . |
| 19 | Ember gave up waiting for her and signalled frantically . |
| 20 | The registration plates said it was only two years old but I stopped believing registration plates about two years before I gave up waiting for the tooth fairy . |
| 21 | The fact was that Charles gave up shooting for a few years because he had simply grown bored with it : it was too easy to blast away overfed birds frightened into the air by a band of beaters . |
| 22 | During 1785 he made six more balloon flights , notably taking William Windham , MP [ q.v. ] , as a passenger on 5 May , but then gave up ballooning for twenty-five years . |
| 23 | He 's been told an operation will help him but says it 's only on condition he gives up smoking for six months . |
| 24 | In other words , given no food choice a cat gives up asking for variety ; given variety it demands more . |