Example sentences of "i give [adv] to " in BNC.
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1 | Should I too give Jacob my maidservant , Zilpah , or should I give in to Rachel ? |
2 | 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 . ’ |
3 | I 'm frightened of these teenagers so I give in to their demands for money . |
4 | I have tried leaving them without food but after about a week I give in to their begging . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | I give in to it . |
7 | ‘ I gave off to him about not brushing his hair . |
8 | After about a year I gave in to the pull and discovered that fatherhood has made me a much more serious person . |
9 | I gave in to that later on in the '80s , by trying to be more conventional and blending in a bit more , and actually I should n't have done that . ’ |
10 | I gave in to it . |
11 | I was feeling low and I gave in to a mad impulse . ’ |
12 | IMAGINE my surprise on getting through the post an appeal on behalf of the very rich a personalised letter from Chris Patten MP exhorting me to give generously to the Conservative Party or else I might ‘ wake up on the morning after polling day to find Neil Kinnock and the Labour Party are in power ’ . |
13 | ‘ And you expect me to give in to it , to some biological urge ? ’ |