Example sentences of "give in to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should she give in to her love for another woman ? |
| 2 | It would be good for the Hong Kong citizens , and it would be inconsistent for Thatcher not to do this , since she has said , for the Falklands , that a people should be able to choose their own government , and we should n't give in to dictatorships . |
| 3 | That no one should give in to their demands . |
| 4 | To his great credit he comes up with no easy answers , but nor does he give in to glib despair . |
| 5 | How can he give in to you after that ? |
| 6 | Of course , I am not suggesting that women should give in to biology ( perish the thought ) , but that PMS is not quite the pathological state that a few health experts would appear to be suggesting . |
| 7 | Fear almost stopped her when she thought of this , but she would n't give in to it , for she could see the smoke billowing up . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | Do n't give in to tears and special pleadings . |
| 10 | When you catch something like this , the first thing you do is give in to it . |
| 11 | Whatever may have been threatened or done , do not give in to the bully and do not keep whatever has happened to yourself . |
| 12 | Please be strong tonight — do n't give in to temptation . |
| 13 | Association chief executive Frank Clark said : ‘ We say we wo n't give in to the IRA and yet the police say they can not guarantee the safety of a manager at a football match . ’ |
| 14 | Of course Mr Brooke and the others at the Northern Ireland Office wo n't give in to terrorism . |
| 15 | That was the way Adam wanted it and had in fact been vociferous on the subject , vowing that neither now nor in the future would he ever give in to those bourgeois values and customs . |
| 16 | Some of them will inevitably give in to that sort of intimidation . |
| 17 | Why should girls give in to boys all the time ? |
| 18 | Try to hold these contradictory memories together : do n't give in to the temptation to simplify your experience by discarding one important aspect of it . |
| 19 | Do n't give in to comments such as ‘ You are very choosy ’ , or are ‘ always turning down work ’ , or even ‘ Do you really want to work ? ’ . |
| 20 | The farsighted and Strong minded PRO will not give in to such pressures and will try to explain the pitfalls of such a course to the powers that be . |
| 21 | She had the feeling she must either give in to that showy and heady beatification or run for her life . |
| 22 | She did n't give in to it . |
| 23 | He drew her to him , so that her head was near his waist , in a stiff sort of way because she did not give in to the embrace . |
| 24 | ‘ I want to send out a very strong message today , ’ he had said , ‘ one thing I learned when I was young is that you do n't give in to the village bully . |
| 25 | One must n't give in to pessimism , and it 's pointless to look too far ahead , but in a couple of years she wo n't even be legal . |
| 26 | But he would n't give in to it . |
| 27 | She would not give in to these men . |
| 28 | ‘ You ca n't give in to it , ’ he was saying urgently . |
| 29 | The ‘ ofer ’ does not give in to herself . |
| 30 | Sometimes it was important to spoil oneself — Helena had written a piece on it for the last issue of Athene , explaining that when women felt the need for a little luxury they should give in to it , that pampering oneself created an inner glow which proclaimed that this was a Special Woman . |