Example sentences of "[pers pn] give [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ca n't you with all those trees up the top , I give up on it . |
| 2 | I give up on them . |
| 3 | I give up on them all . |
| 4 | I du n no , I 'm just , I give up on her anyway ! |
| 5 | I give up after an hour of civilisational water-treading , hit Store and slope off to bed . |
| 6 | I said yes , but I do n't think it was actually Jason Donovan , oh it was , yes , it was Jason Donovan and I 've got the paper all along , I give up in the end . |
| 7 | One ex-minister recalls : ‘ He would just say , ‘ if I give in to you , I will have to give in to everybody ’ , and you knew that was that . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm frightened of these teenagers so I give in to their demands for money . |
| 9 | I have tried leaving them without food but after about a week I give in to their begging . |
| 10 | I give in to this , since the weather 's behaving like it usually does at the seaside : drizzling all day and clearing up at night . |
| 11 | I give in to it . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I suggest you give up about the beginning of September . |
| 13 | Usually , for every £1 of annual pension you give up at 60 , you will receive a lump sum of £11 . |
| 14 | No partnership has a guarantee of happiness , and if you give up at the first hint of discord you 'll never find the rewards a mature and honest relationship can bring . |
| 15 | Other than the exemptions described above , tax has to be paid on any capital gain that has built up on an asset you give away during your lifetime . |
| 16 | If you give in to the fears which are projected onto the inner screen of your mind , you make your intentions to overcome them impossible and you will be weighed down by your past failures , finding you lack the courage to confront the problem or the person who in the past has won over you . |
| 17 | If you give in to bullying and threats then the bully wins and ‘ Wrong ’ has defeated ‘ Right ’ . |
| 18 | You give in to these willful tempers . |
| 19 | If you give in to them they will do it even more and they will think they have won , ’ she said . |
| 20 | She watches her values slowly being eroded , and she describes the process of moral degradation in terms of language : ‘ You find yourself giving in on little things , twisting words and meanings , always trying to be one-up on whoever you 're with , and then suddenly you give in on something else , much bigger ’ ( 131–2 ) . |
| 21 | ‘ We give up to a 70% discount on some related products like paper , ’ Ms Knowles said . |
| 22 | It 's the spiel we give out to the tourists if they happen to capture one of us when they 're wandering round the grounds . |
| 23 | And , I 've just as a basic figure , I mean , they give up to a certain figure o before their hours you put a bit of tax and after that , but er we 've allocated him to work , in the afternoons when I 'm out , they allocate to her , the warehouse , because I ca n't afford any , er , as I say , they repairs a machine , it goes out faulty , and the onus is on me and the company |
| 24 | The bags were of that thinner kind of plastic they use for the bags that they give away at the supermarket , the free ones ; and now one of the bags in her right hand split and she just stood there helpless to stop them as three cans fell out and rolled across the concrete . |
| 25 | Under the legislation , manufacturers can claim a credit of 25 per cent of the market value for each computer they give away to schools . |
| 26 | When I confirmed that it was called the Skein of Geese , she pulled out one of those little books of matches they give away in such places and said : ‘ The same as this , you mean ? ’ |
| 27 | And I really see that the public now certainly they give certainly for the benefit of the a ten , the tenants that |
| 28 | The amount of money that they give back to this community , I would like to see it supported |
| 29 | Why do so many of us give up on diets ? |