Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] give [adv] to " in BNC.
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1 | The thing is , do I do what I want or give in to him ? |
2 | But such a massive U-turn — Mr Major has always rejected a public vote — would be seen as giving in to the rebels . |
3 | It was thought that Iraq had chosen to respond to the appeal from a friendly leader of the Non-aligned Movement , rather than be seen as giving in to Western pressure . |
4 | The child was observed through a one-way screen to see whether he or she would resist or give in to temptation ( i.e. pick up the more attractive , but forbidden , toy ) . |
5 | One was that some members of the public were unaware that they need not pay and gave in to the pressure of successive threatening letters . |
6 | Overnight , as passengers slept soundly in their cabins after a long day ashore , or the more hardy danced and gave in to the temptations of the midnight buffet , the Ocean Empress had weighed anchor and begun to move south again , until , shortly after dawn , the silence of the engines pronounced her arrival in Tenerife off the west coast of Africa . |
7 | The Tribunal 's ruling stipulated , however , that the funds could be returned to the Philippines only after a Philippines court had issued a " legally binding verdict " on whether the assets were to be confiscated or given back to their claimants . |
8 | Do you have a ‘ supply teacher survival kit ’ assembled and given automatically to temporary teachers or students on teaching practice at the school ? |