Sentence examples for have given up doing from inspiring English sources

8.35pm: It's Bruce and Tess Brucee is wearing a golden waistcoat under his suit; Tess is wearing a coral curtain, and THANK THE LORD they have given up doing that spot of dancing that Tess could never do anyway.

As Rodric Braithwaite, ex-UK ambassador to Moscow, writes in The Independent on Sunday, the burden of a diplomatic response "will probably fall on the Germans, the Poles and the French, since the Americans are being ineffective on the sidelines, and the British seem to have given up doing foreign policy altogether".

But just because you have given up, does not mean that you should be horrible.

Unfortunately, my school had given up doing plays the term before I arrived.

In recent years he has given up doing spins, jumps and turns.

It was there that he was spotted by the infomercial outfit Direct FX. "Right now I've given up doing seminars to focus on infomercials," he says, hoping to set himself apart as the arena gets crowded.

Her father was in his mid-80s and had given up doing any of his traditional leisure activities, including playing poker and twice-per-week trips to Atlantic City with friends.

What is worse, many companies have been so discouraged that they have given up on doing business across borders.

The Fed appeared to have given up on doing anything more to stimulate the economy, only for hints to emerge that it might still act.

"I often thought that if I could have given up, and done something else, I would have done," says Jones. "Retrospectively, I can see that I was learning all the time, but it was often difficult.

Thanks to this machine, disabled people do things they couldn't have imagined before, and even more importantly, they do things they had given up on doing like visiting the countryside or exercising.