Example sentences of "[prep] giving up " in BNC.
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| 1 | After giving up the farm he ‘ amused himself with carpentering and the making of various fanciful machines . |
| 2 | After giving up teaching home economics , because ‘ it went sour and , at 40 , I felt the need to take stock , ’ Lorna started up on her own , designing curtains . |
| 3 | But some of the risks start to disappear just three days after giving up |
| 4 | After giving up all hope of ever being parents , the businessman and his wife learned of a young English girl living on Corfu who was putting her baby up for adoption . |
| 5 | Cranmer continued to play infrequently for three years after giving up the captaincy , and deeply regrets the passing of the amateur in today 's game . |
| 6 | After giving up her interior decoration business two years ago , Sally threw herself into the couple 's current venture , Harry Hares , a brasserie in Cirencester specialising in English food . |
| 7 | After giving up the Premiership , Burke was appointed as the Australian ambassador to Ireland , until forced to resign because of emerging allegations of corruption against his former administration . |
| 8 | Tony began 20 years ago , after giving up his job as a scientist . |
| 9 | HANDCUFFED wife killer James Rudman was extradited from Ireland early yesterday after giving up his bizarre battle to avoid British justice . |
| 10 | NURSE Toral Sharan is busy organising a major charity event just days after giving up work to take maternity leave . |
| 11 | Jamie Osborne rode again yesterday despite giving up later rides on the first day and will be fit to partner Whats The Crack . |
| 12 | In Real Women Do n't Take It Lying Down ( December 14 ) , Tony Parsons accused women of giving up the fight against sexism . |
| 13 | The idea of giving up sounds enticing , but it would be a mistake . |
| 14 | Nigel had absolutely no intention of giving up any of his rights , and thus an examination of social security and tax together was impossible . |
| 15 | McGillicuddy would n't relish the idea of giving up the General Director 's job as European overlord , but he was also sixty and could be kicked upstairs for a year or so before taking early retirement . |
| 16 | It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony . |
| 17 | In Britain at about the same time another Gallup poll showed 30 per cent of the populace were in favour of giving up the British H-bomb . |
| 18 | She waters the plot every day and seems to have no intention of giving up , since she saves her own seed every year . |
| 19 | Now it was simply a matter of whether the embarrassment of a Foinavon victory could be headed off , but he was thirty lengths in the lead turning away from the Canal Turn and showed no signs of giving up . |
| 20 | Around the same proportion of the population , according to the same surveys , never thought of giving up the struggle to the end — or recovered from such defeatist notions — and it is fair to presume that for them Hitler remained the symbol of continued hope and determination . |
| 21 | Her near nervous breakdown , which took her to the brink of giving up all she had worked for in showbusiness , was all the more surprising to outsiders given it happened in her native Australia . |
| 22 | In 1968 Jack Nicholson was thinking of giving up acting altogether . |
| 23 | The way he explained it to Boy , it was one of those moments of giving up , one of those moments when you throw away your still half-full packet of cigarettes as you walk home in the drizzle and you say out loud , well that is it , that is the last time . |
| 24 | Have you ever thought of giving up work and being a full-time mother ? |
| 25 | He was talking of giving up . |
| 26 | Even so , you ought to balance the relative advantages and disadvantages of giving up your employment on the one hand , and staying on , with dismissal likely , on the other . |
| 27 | Aviation was one of them and I was completely fascinated by the thrill of flying , so much so that I thought seriously of giving up journalism and becoming an aviator . |
| 28 | Among other things , this story illustrates the folly of giving up the convention of putting the decimal point a little above the line . , |
| 29 | So , instead of giving up and moving on — as the man interested only in the shooting aspect would do — I now introduce my line ferrets in those situations where loose ferrets remain below the ground . |
| 30 | But even a heavy smoker can reduce this risk by kicking the habit , and the benefit starts within days of giving up . |