Example sentences of "given up [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His family doctor has given up preaching restraint . |
| 2 | He had given up writing poetry and had been living the duplicitous life of a critic deciphering his own works , but when he fell in love with Howard 's wife Elizabeth his former self was reawakened and he ceased to believe in his own existence . |
| 3 | We 've given up eating lamb lamb since there 's been sheep in the field have n't we ? |
| 4 | They have given up reading texts and treat the water as their scripture , their Bible , their Koran , from which they are constantly teasing out ingenious interpretations of hidden , secret messages . |
| 5 | But she had given up telling Gloria about what went on each day . |
| 6 | Christ , Clare was even fit at the time ; she 'd given up doing coke and taken up healthy shit like running and swimming . |
| 7 | Defries , who had given up threatening Daak with a court-martial for assault , voiced the same fear . |